Paul Jacobson

Category: Events and Life

  • Sex by PowerPoint

    I had a “Squirrel!” moment this morning and came across this hilarious PowerPoint proposition on Tumblr (thanks to Sam for posting it). It is the first proposition for “sex things” I’ve ever seen in a presentation and worth spending a few minutes reading.

  • Home time, shut down

    One of my clients mentioned to me that he doesn’t open his laptop when he is home. He would rather go into the office a little earlier, stay a little later than work at home. At first it sounded a little extreme but I have come to really like the idea. I’ve started shutting my…

  • Its been a year already

    Its been a year since my brother-in-law, Cliff Hoffmann, passed away. Its fitting that today is such a sombre day here in Johannesburg. I took the photo below at a lunch at Gina’s late grandmother, Granny Ruby, on the 2nd of January 2011. I remember that day being a pretty good day. We were visiting…

  • My social life 20 years ago

    We’re at Sandton City for a movie tonight and these kids just take me back 20 or more years. This is basically what my group of friends and I looked like back then in the same mall and wearing pretty much the same clothes!

  • When every experience mirrors your personality

    Anil Dash’s first blog post back in July 1999 titled “A Minor Revelation” was a pretty profound and highlights something I think about almost daily: The premise is that the things we experience in our daily lives are reflections of ourselves. Behaviours and traits we see in other people are perceptions of similar behaviours and…

  • Why men don't want to have opinions

    My wife pointed this out to me and I think I actually had this conversation with her a while ago when she was debating cutting her hair. This is why men don’t want to have opinions about their partner’s hair, outfits or anything which may or may not make them look fat (not that they…

  • So many ways to be awesome

    I love this one (you should subscribe to the Indexed blog, some great stuff there):

  • So maybe the Earth won't end on December 2012

    I am a little obsessed with the interpretations of the Mayan prophecies which are taken to predict the end of the world in December 2012. Its not the sort of obsession that has driven me to research the myths and distill the facts. Oh no, its more of the background and uninformed fear of impending…