Stephen Pontes [.com]

An interesting quote from Lucky Number Slevin

The unlucky are nothing more than a frame of reference for the lucky. You are unlucky, so I may know that I am. Unfortunately the lucky never realizes they are lucky until it’s too late. Take yourself for instance; yesterday you were better off than you are off today but it took today for you to realize it. But today has arrived and it’s too late. You see? People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had, or what others have. The grass is always greener on the other side.

Small Team, Big Impact: The People Behind Photos (video above) from Facebook’s “Life at Facebook” page

Whoa! According to the above video Facebook is currently (as of three months ago) storing roughly 19,000 Terabytes of photos.

The video states that they’re growing at a rate of 1 billion new photos a month (2,000 every second). Based on a VERY rough guesstimate of 500K a picture (half a megabyte) which doesn’t include the various “versions” of a file that they store including thumbnail, “medium” and the full size, that works out to an additional 476 Terabytes in a month. To give you a sense of size, that’s approximately the space required to store 142,606,336 songs… which is increasing each month.

It must be mindblowing to see the infrastructure that has to be in place to not only handle that number of photos but to also accommodate the explosive growth! Anyone at Facebook want to give me a tour?

It’ll be a hot one… But fun!

Weather this hot should be illegal. I’m not sure what’s worse – the shock of 100 degree weather or getting into a car that’s been sitting in 100+ degree weather for the entire day.

“I feel like I’m 50 asking for help on how to stream Netflix” – Isaac

In dad’s office of all places…

I always feel bad messing up the bed!