2 Joe Rogan quotes

A facebook post from Saturday August 13, 2016

Two quotes from Joe Rogan, that host of Fear Factor that made contestants eat bugs...he is also a popular standup comedian,
martial arts US champion, and quite the philosopher/ deep thinker and speaker.

Oh, Molade Osibodu, he also has one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world (over 16 million people listen each month). I recently listened to an episode, and at the beginning, he literally spent over 10 minutes reading sponsors. That means 'money'.

These are the two quotes of his that I found to be true.

"The only way to be happy is to make others happy. The only way to fulfill your true purpose in this life is to learn from all your mistakes and project that information to others and enrich their lives. Whether it's through your children, through your art, or through your friendships. Life is energy. The more positive energy you're involved with, the happier you'll feel and the closer you'll be to the true path. We are here to help each other evolve, and we the people alive today are at the cutting edge of human thinking and human behavior. As you get better in life, you enable the people around you to get better as well."

"No one ever tells you that all the success in the world will leave you a miserable wreck of a person if you stab your brothers and sisters in the back in your attempt to reach victory. No one ever tells you that all the money in the world ain’t worth shit if no one gives a fuck about you and you have no friends. The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past, the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn’t value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity."

(Oh according to 'the internet', which is probably off my a lot, he is worth $23 million)

Computers - a history of their size, through history, for the consumer

Listen to my audio recording here while looking at this photo of my illustration on the white board.

Imagination

Imagination, Meditation, Seeing things that will be. Vision. This is my word for you today, this week, this month, year and forever. I was reminded of it in a TV show, and also by a good Pastor. Imagination is something that secular or not, applies to all.

Renowned photographer, Kelechi Amadi, Mania Magazine, Nigeria’s first Fashion Magazine.

MANIA- Fearless Fashion from Joel Benson on Vimeo.

about me

Business:
Information and Communications Technology (ICT): ict.folarino.com

Educational Consulting: school.folarino.com

Public Speaking:

• "Create and Innovate" presentation:http://www.slideshare.net/fosibodu/create-innovate

Hobby:
I am a film enthusiast. I make movies. I do the Writing of the scripts, the Cinematography, the Acting, the Editing, the Sound Effects, the Sound Editing, the visual effects and the Directing

Explore and watch my short films here: film.folarino.com
Download the films here:
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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Intuition

Listen & Learn

After my Technological African Father, my other African hero (after my real Father), Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali's father went to school with Chike Obi, the first African to get a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Philip Emeagwali was born in 1954 in Nigeria. He was raised in the town of Onitsha which is located in South-Eastern Nigeria. Dubbed "Calculus" by schoolmates, Emeagwali at age 14 had mastered the subject, and could even out-calculate his instructors. Then a crisis struck. He had to drop out of school because his family could not afford to send all eight children. But he continued studying on his own, and after getting a general certificate of education from the University of London. At the age of 17, he was awarded a full scholarship to Oregon State University where he majored in math.

Bsc Mathematics

Upon graduation, he attended George Washington University and was awarded 

2 Engineering Master's degrees

- civil engineering 

-marine engineering

and 

Master's in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. 

He later achieved his

Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Michigan
-Civil Engineering (really scientific computing).

Philip Emeagwali's greatest achievement, that warranted him the most praise, was The Connection Machine. The Connection Machine utilizes 65,000 computers linked in parallel to form the fastest computer on Earth. This computer can perform 3.1 billion calculations per second. This is faster than the theoretical top speed of the Cray Supercomputer. Though he did not "invent" The Connection Machine, his work on it won Philip Emeagwali the Gordon Bell Prize of 1989. The parallel computer was twice as fast as the previous year's computer. The Connection Machine was a great advancement over previous designs built by IBM's design teams of Thomas J. Watson, Jr. and Fred Brook.

Source: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/emeagwali_philip.html

The genius of the Coen Brothers

No Country For Old Men is an absolute masterpiece!

I am re-watching this movie after seeing it multiple times over the last few years since it came out in 2007.  I am thinking, every shot is perfectly placed or timed or moved so that you will get the complete story out of the shot...well done you Roger Deakins...genius you. Roger's shots of landscapes is just breathtaking. This guy is probably the best in the business, yet there is a certain humility in his work. No showy camera moves. Every camera move serves the film's pace and it also tells a story. He is so good, that Pixar hired Roger Deakins as a consultant for their 2009 movie, "Up" so that they could properly use and translate real world cinematography to be used in animation the right way.

Scenes are perfectly edited such that even in an action scene, there is no destabilising rapid cutting like you see in many action movies today. It all flows perfectly. Good cutting job Roderick Jaynes...or Joel or Ethan...Roderick Jaynes is an alias they use when they edit their movies, but they credit Roderick Jaynes, who does not exist - one of their many successful attempts at wit.

Every actor is so perfectly cast, even the day players that may appear in just a few minutes or few seconds, perfectly fit the roles. Good job! -  casting directors, for hiring very believable, perfectly fit actors for all roles. You just understand what kind of personalities these characters are only from their few seconds of on-screen time, that you get to appreciate this piece of work just a little bit more.

The sound, my God, the sound. Who would guess that a movie that is mostly people talking and mostly quiet, with almost no movie music at all, set in the 80s in 'small town', Texas, will not only pay huge attention to the sound design but, as it turns out, every damn sound tells a damn story. Whether it is the faint distant sound in the hotel lobby of the attendant being shot, or the faint footsteps of Anton Chigurh approaching Llewelyn Moss' room, or even the sound of the gun that Anton has so meticulously muffled, that each gun-shot noise has all but disappeared into thin-air...literally...cos it just sounds like air being forced through a tiny hole. Every sound was carefully designed, produced, edited and placed in each scene, without exaggeration...that it eventually becomes music to your ears.

Most of all, the Coen Brothers write all their movies, and direct all their movies. And man do they do so brilliantly. Many actors in their movies, have said they are 2 people that share one brain. The actor could ask one of the directors a very specific question and then sneak of the second to ask the same question and they'd get the exact same answer. The actors have said, every day, they would recieve these flash cards containing story boards - which are drawings depicting what would be shot on that day. These guys meticulously and thoroughly plan each shots and they know what the movie would look like on a day-to-day basis.

Go on wikipedia and look at their filmography. Each movie is almost completely different from the next, each film existing in genre of its own:

Miller's Crossing is a gangster film set during the Prohibition (1920 to 1933). 

Barton Fink, set in 1941, is about a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and an insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle.

Fargo is a crime comedy film set in the winter of 1987 about a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides near Brainerd, Minnesota…and a struggling car salesman who hires two criminals to kidnap his wife, for money.

The Big Lebowski is about Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, nicknamed "The Dude". After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski. Then music, murder plots, and hilarity ensues.

No Country for Old Men is a neo-Western thriller about an ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as the paths of three men intertwine in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.

A Serious Man is a dark comedy set in 1967 about a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith. 

True Grit is a western about a  mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit, then agrees to help a 14 year old girl to track, capture, arrest and possibly hang the murderer of her father. They along with a sheriff travel and meet interesting and some very dangerous characters in their adventure.

Inside Llewyn Davis is a comedy-drama  about one week in the life of a talented but unlucky singer who is active in New York's folk music scene in 1961. 

As you can clearly see, the Coen Brothers, make completely different movies each time, reaching spanning many decades and periods in time, and mixing different genres, or selecting a very specific genre in a very specific location from a very specific time period. Very very few directors do what the Coens do. Why? Because it is damn difficult, that's why. To do a type movie that you have never done before means, heavy research, capturing the period, learning the way the language is spoken, the way people move and act, creating a look to the film, costumes, etc But when done well, you create magic.

They also represent the language from that location as authentically as possible, which always sounds so good even to a foreign audience like myself - foreign in country, not foreign in interest (film).

According to rottentomatoes.com, which has figured out a way to put figures to rate films, and accurately, there are the ratings of each film listed above.

Miller's Crossing: 91%
Barton Fink: 91%
Fargo: 94%
The Big Lebowski: 80%
No Country for Old Men: 94%
A Serious Mana 94%
True Grit: 96%
Inside Llewyn Davis: 94%

Impressive.

These guys are rare and true masters of their craft.

Possible trivia: In No Country for Old Men, a character is called Llewelyn. In Inside Llewyn Davis, the main guy is Llewyn which is Llewelyn minus the second 'e' and third 'l'. I wonder if the similarities in both obscure names was not done on purpose.

It 'just works'.

The reason to start a company is to solve a problem. It is that simple. The by-product or reward of making that solution, is money.

There are some technologies that just works. Some products or solutions that the most lay-men of people can pick up immediately and use without much of a learning curve.


Dropbox
Today, the best example that I can think of is Dropbox. When you visite dropbox.com there is almost nothing of the page, it is as if they stripped out all the junk and left the most important few buttons for the site visitor to click. The tagline you see is "Your stuff, anywhere".

And that says it all, doesn't it. Dropbox is a tool that allows your documents, photos and home videos to get synced on all your devices. Remember when you bought that ipod from 2007, and you had a computer, and another computer and you needed all your songs to be on all three and it was hell to get them all on all your devices, well founder Drew Houston has helped us to solve that problem.

In 2007, when he took the train from Boston to New York, as soon as he got there he realized that he had forgotten his thumb drive at home. Crap! And he had all the work that he needed to do for the day on it. Well instead of cursing the heavens and complaining, he opened his computer and started to write some code for a way to sync his documents from his computer to any computer in the world, as long as he signs in to that service using any computer. 

It would solve sending various documents over and over again, over email. It would allow multiple people to collaborate on a single document over the internet. It would be a service that is extremely simple to use.

One of the 'required' things today when you buy a new computer is to download dropbox. If you are not already using dropbox to sync your documents, you really should.  It's totally amazing, the technology disappears and its one of those things that 'just works'. I demo'd it to a colleague recently - held my phone, office pc and my mac closely together. Created a doc on the office pc, dragged and dropped it to dropbox folder, it took a sec to upload, immediately, my mac got the signal, and downloaded it to its dropbox folder. Same with the phone as I was able to access the doc there. The even more magical part is when I deleted the doc from my office pc, a few secs later, it got erased from my mac also. And that is why the founder Drew Houston is now worth $400 million in just 6 yrs since he started the company.

As of July 2013, Dropbox had 200 million users, 4 million businesses and 97% of the Fortune 500.
Dropbox is valued at around $5 to $10 billion.






Square

Another one of those companies is Square (squareup.com), which is a product that allows you to accept payments from anyone with a debit or credit card. It makes soooo much sense. Why should only retail stores and merchants be the ones to accept card payments? Why can't I accept payments from a friend who is buying by old iPhone with their card? I mean our cards are more available in our wallets than cash.

The image below says it all. Square is the little white square device that the company sends to you for free, you download the Square app, and you are good to go. Plug square into the audio jack, swipe the card, enter the amount or price, hit enter, ask the person to sign with their finger and the receipt gets emailed to them. No stupid paper receipt that will only end up in a trash can.

Square was founded in 2009. As of September 2012 the company was valued at $3.25 billion and the founder Jack Dorsey is worth $1.3 billion. 

Twitter
Twitter. Jack Dorsey also co-founded Twitter. An idea that spun out of a podcasting company that did not work. The twitter code was written in just 2 weeks, because it is quite a simple concept - to allow anyone with a phone or computer to post to the world what they are doing. Who knew that could turn into big business? 

The cheapest phone in the world, as long as it could send a text message can send tweets. That in of itself is was makes gives this product the ability to be ubiquitous - to be available to the 6 billion people who own phones.

Twitter is the 10th most visited site in the U.S. has 200 million active users as of February 2013 and had a revenue of $213 million dollars in 2012. On November 7, 2013, the first day of trading on the NYSE, Twitter shares closed at $44.90, giving the company a valuation of around $31 billion. The paperwork from November 7 showed that among the founders, Evan Williams received a sum of $2.56 billion and Jack Dorsey received $1.05 billion, while Dick Costolo, the current CEO's payment was $345 million.


Google
Compare Google's homepage to that of Yahoo or Amazon.com's and you will see the big difference. Almost nothing but the search bar in Google with a few buttons at the top. 

Google's search engine technology was one of the internet's first, "it just works". Type in a search and most likely you will find the result in not just page number 1, but the top 2 or 3 results. When in 2010, they introduced Google Instant which was as you type, results appear in real time, they cut the already milli-second time it took to produce results to even shorter.

Google.com is the #1 most visited site in the world. It made $50 billion in revenues in 2012 with a net income of almost $13 billion. Its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are each worth about $24 billion as of September 2013. 

To conclude, you create a "just works" product or technology and not only will you make people's lives that much easier, the world will reward you handsomely, financially.

By Folarin Osibodu

Pacific Rim - my review

Pacific Rim

Guillermo Del Toro is back with a new powerhouse flick called Pacific Rim. Before I begin, here is a post of my status review that I wrote on my facebook profile.

The first time I saw the first trailer to Pacific Rim, I remember thinking, I have not seen a movie like this before. Giant robots fighting giant monsters, and having that sense of scale that the effects sold to us.

Let us first do a little word and meaning exercise:

Jaeger (pronounced Yaeger) - Giant robot

Kaiju - Giant monster mostly popularised by Godzilla

Guillermo Del Toro is a director that does not seem to do the same type of movie twice. It is also important to praise this film because it is an original piece of work, not a sequel or an adaptation of which 90% of summer movies or most movies generally are. The film is set in the not too distant future because people still drive recognizable cars that can be seen when the Jaegers and Kaijus are either stepping on them, falling onto them, throwing them, or using them as boxing gloves. 

I admire directors who make totally different types of movies each time, some even taken on a different genre each time because its like learning a new field each time, and nailing the hell out of it everytime. Quentin Tarantino is at the top of that list, Danny Boyle, James Mangold, Ed Zwick, David Fincher, Terence Malick. Look at their filmography to see what I'm talking about.

Del Toro has said numerous times in interviews that in making this movie, he was satisfying the 11 or 12 year old in him. The movie is not complicated, yet it does not dumb down its audience. 

The plot basically is, at some point, giant monsters emerged from a portal in the ocean and started to wreak havoc. And boy did they do so effortlessly. And so to battle these monsters, the people created monsters of their own - giant 10 to 13 story high robots called Jaegers. The Jaegers would be piloted by humans in their head. If you have seen Avatar, the way humans drove the mechas, is similar to this movie, except on a much larger scale. During initial testing of the Jaegers, they used to be piloted by one pilot, but the neural (brain) load was too much for one person, so they were modified for two pilots. One controlling the left hemisphere, the other controlling the right. In order for both pilots to work in sync, they would have to form a neural handshake, which is when they both drift into each others mind and work as one brain. Then whenever a Kaiju is located as emerging from the sea, the gigantic action begins. 

The movie opens with a blast. Strongly narrated, and explained by the lead actor Charlie Hunnam, and efficiently edited and directed too. 

Every year the movie industry impresses with at least one movie that really pushes the envelope in visual effects and Pacific Rim is that this year. Of course most of these vfx are done by ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) - George Lucas' company, which The Walt Disney company acquired in 2012 at a valuation of $4.05 billion. The other vfx powerhouse is Peter Jackson's Weta Digital. A smaller third is Digital Domain. ILM did Pacific Rims', and I expect them to win the Academy Award for best visual effects in 2014's ceremony.

The effects are completely photo real. Most of the fights occur in the rain and at night, some half way in water, then final completely under water, which are all even more difficult to accomplish than in daylight. You feel the heftiness of them because they do not move so quickly, or when they do, you can sense their slow acceleration to gain momentum. It was fun to see all the various types of Jaeger and discover their characteristics. One is bigger, one is faster, one is even piloted by a set of triplets. The color palette is also awesome, as can be really seen in the China town sequences. 

The stand out effects are the way the pilots who move real, physical, mechanical arms and feet to interact with the digitally built Jaegers. It adds to the feeling to sell that the robots are really there.

One slight gripe that I had was that I wish they did not fight in the rain, because it made it a bit difficult to see, but I guess if a fight was happening in the rain and at night, it would not be easy to see either. 

I have used the word 'robots' a few times, even though I am aware that they are not actually robots, because they are being driven or piloted by people, therefore they should be called Mechas.

Most disaster movies, first of all have the distaster happening in New York or generally America, and America always gets to save the day -sigh-. Del Toro has said specifically that, "I did not want a movie where America saves the world, but a movie where the world saves the world." The film is very diverse with Asians, Germans, Americans both as pilots and as members of the military or government. 

Other cast members are Idris Elba as the leader of the Jaeger resistance program, Charlie Day as one of the genius and hilarious scientists, and Rinko Kikuchi who eventually becomes a co-pilot and has a nicely told back story. She is not some damsel in distress but holds her own well alongside her male counterparts...and of course a Del Toro movie will not be complete without Ron Perlman as who gets hilariously eaten by a baby Kaiju...but wait till the end of the first half of the end credits to see a bonus scene...shhhh.

I was in the US on vacation a few days before this movie was released, but travelled out 2 days before the release date. I was en route to the UK when it came out so even though it was my first time ever in the UK, as soon as I got to my destination, I went online seeked out the nearest cinema and made my way to see it and had a complete blast. I realized that in the UK, it is customary for the audience to stay completely quiet no matter how tense things get in the film. I did not realize this until after audibly reacting to awesome punches and cool moments, when I got a few head turns and then remembered a british friend telling that to me some years back.

Lastly the musical score by Ramin Djawadi, who scored Iron Man, is very well suited to the film, with the electronic guitar at its forefront. Very memorable score that will get your heart pumping with excitement.

This is a fun movie for all, who want to have a complete fun experience. See it in 3D too, it was well done.

- by Folarin Osibodu

2.4B Global Internet trends in 2012 - 8% Y/Y Growth, Driven by Emerging Markets

Title: 2.4B Global Internet trends in 2012 - 8% Y/Y Growth, Driven by Emerging Markets

As I was going through this presentation, I noticed that while USA ranked #10 in Internet user adds, Nigeria ranked higher at #6. Thumbs up!

Note: On this slide, while KPCB annotated the USA row, I annotated the Nigeria row.

Source: http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2012-internet-trends-update

Instructions to set up Guaranty Trust Bank online third party transfer

Training/ Instructions on setting up Guaranty Trust Bank Online Third party transfer.

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Step 1: Have a computer, desktop or laptop. We do not recommendusing a smart phone because of small screen real estate. GTB is not fully optimised for mobile yet.

Step 2. Have internet connectivity

Step 3. Have your phone ready, because a text message may be sent for additional security measures

Step 4. Have a token. You can get this by going to any GTBank branch. This costs N3000. 

Visit www.gtbank.com

Step 5. Click on the REGISTER  button under INTERNET BANKING

Step 6. I suggest calling GTConnect to register

Step 7. Your account number will be a combination of your select digits of your account number + the digits 01

Step 8. You will select a Password which can be between 4 digits and 9 digits (do not quote me on that). The point that I am making is it is can be longer than a 4 digit Personal Identification Number (PIN). This is why is it called a Password, not a PIN.

Step 9. After you have obtained your User ID and Password, you are ready to login

Step 10. Enter your User ID and Password, and click login

On subsequent days after you visit gtbank.com, 

Click on the LOGIN  button under INTERNET BANKING

This would take you to a new page 

"Simple Tips to Protect Your Funds and Account" that reminds you of the Dos and Don'ts of internet banking 

Scroll down a bit, click on 'Continue"

Step 11. You will see "Do Not Disclose your…"

Scroll down a bit and click on "Click here to view your Account (s).

You are now logged into you online bank account

Step 12. Click on the Transfers tab. Click on "Transfer to any GTbank A/C"

You will see the following statement and instruction:

"With Guaranty Trust Bank Internet  Banking third party transfer is now easier. You no longer have to pre-register your third party beneficiaries. You can transfer funds from your Account to any other account within the Bank. To effect transfer of funds, simply complete and submit the form below."

Please enter the third party NUBAN account number or use your regular account format

Step 13:

Transfer Details

From: (this shows your own account number)

Stored Beneficiary: (after you have sent money to someone previously, you have the option to save their account number for future easier use. I recommend you saving our business account number, for easier transaction)

Account Number System: You can select NUBAN or Regular

After you click on either, wait for the website to load the next text bar , "To: "

Amount: Enter the funds to be transferred. 

Remark: You may enter a comment like "For tutoring and management services rendered"

Answer your Secret Question: When on the registering your online account with GTConnect, you will be asked to set up a Secret Question. GTBank would say that for added security reasons, they would not remind you what that secret question is. Therefore you should either remember the question, or write down both the question and the answer in a file somewhere.

Click on Continue

You will see a "Third Party Transfer Confirmation" page

Beneficiary Name: Olawale Johnson

Account Number: xxxxxxxxxx

Amount: ###,###

Step 14: "Click the white button on your token and type the transaction code generated:" Press the button on your token and enter the 6 digit code immediately, try not to delay. You may have to repeat Step 14 until the token and the website are synchronised to accept the code.

Step 15. Then click Submit

Congratulations you would have now sent your first GTB online 3rd party transfer

Google.com in the main languages of Nigeria

The main languages of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are: 

English which is the Lingua Franca

Yoruba

Hausa 

Igbo

Pidgin - whether we recognize it or not, is a common tongue

pandodaily's office crashers: why it's fun and games inside ZyngaVille

updates - a feature for the future of e-books

I predict that the future of books, specifically e-books, is updates. Just like app developers make updates to their apps, authors would send updates to e-books too. 

For example - page 10 of Reid Hoffman's book, The Start-up of You (Feb, 2012), reads "...thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose at Digg and Milk (his mobile apps firm)...". 

On March 2012, Google acquired Milk, and in July 2012, Betaworks acquired Digg, so that sentence is already dated. Therefore Reid could send an update to your kindle like, ."..thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose formally of Digg (acquired by Betaworks) and Milk (acquired by Google)…"

Renowned photographer, Kelechi Amadi, Mania Magazine, likely Nigeria’s first Fashion Magazine.

MANIA- Fearless Fashion from Joel Benson on Vimeo.

Waiting for Happiness

The following was a text conversation with a friend.

Me: 

Side story - I was at an interview yesterday, great interview, he asked great questions, he was clearly well prepared (English guy, CEO of newly formed division at d company)...at a point of the interview, I basically said indirectly that if the job was not the right fit for me, he should not hire me.

I didn't know until the interview, but it was a project management job in electrical engineering, I also said that Information Technology is where I would prefer to keep my focus on, and I have only a 3 month internship in electric engineering (from my 2nd year in university)…even though I have a BSc in electric engineering. 

I basically gave him reasons not to hire me.

I felt better, cos simple honesty really beats, trying to prove what I'm not into, because I want a job.

So ill be expecting d results next wk or wk after :)

Friend:

Haha

Love it

Me:

Yea:

Friend:

I love when someone knows what they want in life and goes after it

Me:

Bear in mind that I'm broke as $#t

But I know the direction I wanna head to

The interview was at ******* (huge conglomerate group) btw

Friend:

Don't worry

Before daylight there must always be a night

Where you don't even know where to head

Everything seems dark

Me:

Yea, I'm not worried. Surprisingly enough, I'm happy.

Few months ago, I was bored to my teeth. You remember when I used to

tell you…

Now, I have so much to do, I use my calendar a lot now

I joined the church media team, I've started tutoring again

Got two job offers - the hard part is choosing. And I have two more prospective jobs that I'm in the interviewing stages of. 

I may not have money, but I live, eat, and drive a car, provided by the God via the parentals.

So..I just looked on the bright side jare. My...(personal device of mine)... was stolen - don't matter, I'll buy a better one soon.

Friend:

:)

That's the spirit

When you are waiting, it's always good to be active

Me:

Exactly

Plus another lesson I needed to learn..if I keep waiting for that next job, or that next gf, or to move into my own apartment to make me happier..I might wait a long time

Cos when those things happen, I'll still need that next thing

Friend:

Yup

Yup

Me:

So why not find a way to be fulfilled now, no matter what life has in store

Friend:

Exactly. Dang God is working on my Folarin

Me

:D (laughing)

That's why I didn't wait to be comfortable to begin investing. I started when I was/am broke.

Friend

:)

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Update
The 'personal device' that was stolen was my iPad. It was stolen while I was working at church. Graciously, the church elders met and bought/replaced me a new iPad with double the hard drive

Software will replace physical placeholders

CDs, DVDs and Bluray disks are placeholders until internet bandwidth is cheap enough and strong enough all over the world, for us to be able to stream TV and Films. When we get there, we will no long have disks. 

Paper money and debit/credit cards are only placeholders, until we have all embraced payments on our mobile phones.

Physical books are placeholders, until we all fully embrace e-books

Point and Shoot cameras are placeholders until our phones can do a better job at taking pictures. In-fact we are already at that point where point-and-shoot cameras are getting phased out.

Therefore, SLRs are placeholders until they become phased out when phone cameras become sophisticated enough with the help of camera apps

There are many more examples

Our phone's software has made obsolete or will soon make obsolete these placeholders:

Alarm clocks

Calculator

Calendar

Photographs

Paper maps

mp3 player

etc

2 years ago, I told a friend that cameras are placeholders until our eyes are actually able to take photos. Then Black Mirror also suggests that our eyes will soon be able capture video 24/7 that we can rewind and playback either to ourselves, or through a TV set.

For more, look at  slides 33 - 84 here:

KPCB Internet Trends 2012

The Amazing Spiderman review

The Amazing Spiderman is very aptly named.

It was an excellent movie. Well cast. The scenes with Peter Parker and his love interest were better than those in each of the 3 previous films. The relationship with his uncle Ben, and aunty May was fresh, warm and they nailed it emotionally when the scene needed to.

The way they tackled the uncle Ben demise was more grounded in reality than in the first Spiderman, and what a great choice to cast Martin Sheen.

Andrew Garfield is a superstar. Tobey Maguire was a great spiderman, but Garfield I think, really gets the character a little bit more than Tobey did. 

I was initially skeptical that the swinging was gonna disappoint, but it didn't. Having said that, I still prefer the swinging shots in Spidey 1 & 2.

I think what director Marc Webb did better than director Sam Raimi, was to re-imagine the spiderman character when he is in the suit. Spidey has more fun this time. He has is funnier. He moves faster in the cleverest of ways. My favourite action scene is when Spidey is fighting with the Lizard inside the school. When Gwen Stacy attempts to help, Spiderman unleashes this strong web of horror around this very powerful assailant. He weaves the web in a very fluid, musical way to hold him down. Then at some point, he crawls from the shoulders of the Lizard down to his legs and to his back…like a freaking spider. That was the best moment, that was the edge, the nuance of the character than Marc Webb and his visual effects team got over the previous spiderman films.

Don't get me wrong Spiderman 2 set the bar so high. I won't say this is better because they are so different. I can say this one is definitely better than Spiderman 3 which was crap, still don't know why I bought the dvd. Oh, yeah because of the extra features, and a few decent action scenes. 

Emma Stone nails...nails, the Gwen Stacy part. She is going to be our generation's Meryl Streep. 

African Leadership Academy - Fred Swaniker - Stanford - Part 1

Acha Leke - Africa New Era - Stanford

How to transfer contacts from a Nokia phone to a Blackberry

How to transfer contacts from a Nokia phone to a Blackberry using a mac. I had to transfer contacts from my mum's Nokia X3-00 to her new Blackberry Bold 9900 using my Macbook. Not a single website gave me a straightforward answer, so I decided to add my how-to to the internet space. First, you need a PC. Yes, this is one of those very few times, when the Mac is inadequate. Download the Nokia PC Suite. Install it. Connect your Nokia phone. Click on contacts, to reveal all your contacts. Highlight all (Ctrl+A) drag and drop into a new folder on your desktop. From this point, you can either use a Mac or a PC, but the computer has to have Blackberry Desktop Manager (BDM). If you don't have, google it, and download it for free. Connect your blackberry with the computer using the cable. On PC, copy the contacts to Outlook, fire up BDM, then sync your contacts with Outlook. On Mac, Use a flash drive to move this contacts folder to your Mac desktop. Open Address Book, create a new group, and drag and drop your contacts into it. Fire up BDM, sync contacts with the address book. And you are done!

The Descendants

Super-star actors like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are at the top of their game for good reason. They are not just famous celebrities we see on the cover of People magazine which lies in the rack at the grocery store. They act and make the best films when compared with the films that their peers make. I suppose since they are already incredibly wealthy, money no longer is the priority when choosing projects. They would much rather choose to do films like The Descendants, Moneyball or In the Land of Blood and Honey (respectively), where they can gain respect by winning accolades and awards.

I had never heard of The Descendants, which stars George Clooney, and directed by Alexander Payne until the 2012 Golden Globe nominations were announced. The Descendants is a film mainly about family. Clooney is a father and husband whose wife was in a boating accident. She hit her head and is now in a coma on life support. Clooney has two daughters ages 10 and 17. They live in Hawaii. Clooney, who is a busy real estate attorney now has to learn to raise his children who he has not had much experience with before his wife's accident, because he travelled a lot on business and was hardly around. He now also has to learn how to deal with the imminent bereavement of his wife and manage his somewhat estranged children's feelings too. The other side of this film's story is that Clooney's character is the trustee of a massive land in Hawaii worth hundreds of millions of dollars, someone even offering half a billion. He and his 7 or 8 other 'cousins' are The Descendants of this land, which may or may not be sold by the end of the movie.

Clooney's voice over at the beginning of the film was quick to suppress our stereotipical notion that everyone who lives in Hawaii lives in paradise. Or that its residents are on some permanent vacation, where everybody sips on Mai Tais on the beach everyday, without a care in the world. No, Hawaii is like everywhere else. People there work for a living. "Its residents are not immune to life."

So, the movie is about Clooney dealing with the business of getting the land sold, and dealing with his children whose mother will not wake up. There is a clever tie-in between boths stories that raises the dramatic and comedy to a high level, because, Clooney, who was excited about the sale before, now finds himself in a dilemma.








Clooney decides to take the family on a trip to inform all family and friends about the state of the wife/mother. Alex decides she wants to bring some obnoxious and impolite guy-friend along with her. Clooney disagrees at first until she says she would behave herself more if he is there with her. It turns out she did behave. This guy-friend seems to be really annoying at first, many times, never realizing how insensitive he is to an old woman's Alzheimer's or the serious situation the family is going through. However as he travels with the family, we notice him understanding things better, he even has a few seconds of wisdom to disperse. We learn that he lost his father a few months back, so maybe that is the connection Alex sees in him, and therapy she needed.

This movie is very smartly written. It is also well grounded in reality. Nothing happens that could not happen in real life. As I listened to the characters talk, I kept saying to myself, yep, that is how I would expect that character to respond...yep, if I were her, I would do exactly that. But the reason we go to movies is to see something we would not normally see in real life, therefore the dialogue is pushed a bit beyond reality just a tiny bit, so that there are witty comebacks and clever remarks, which makes it more exciting.

There were amazing performances by every single cast member. Clooney is obviously great as always. He shows that he is as adept at comedy as he is at displaying and evoking strong emotion. Even actors normally known for comedic roles like Matthew Lillard and Judy Greer were great in their dramatic parts. Clooney's father-in-law, played by Robert Forster (popularly known from Jackie Brown), is amazing as a gentle but bitter father who blames Clooney for not giving her what he thought his daughter deserved in life. A stand out performance was Shailene Woodley as Alex, Clooney's teenage daughter. At the beginning, she is a rebel, but her character arch evolves to become her dad's partner who goes on hilarious family reconnaissance missions.

I normally would not be the first to seek out dramas, but I am begining to like comedy-dramas because as soon as a scene becomes too sad, the filmmakers inject something funny, but not 'haha' funny so as not to downplay the seriousness, but the kind that makes you wanna cry and smile at the same time.

Every character gets their time to grow, learn and cry.

Director irector Alexander Payne has only made 5 films, including About Schmidt and Sideways which already makes him a master at what he does.

The Descendants won the Golden Globe award in 2012 for Best Picture - Drama, and Best Actor - Drama for George Clooney. This is a film that will be a classic which will withstand the test of time.

By Folarin Osibodu

TIME magazine's 100 most influential people

TIME magazine's 100 most influential people

Main article:  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2066367,00.html

The purpose of this article is to test how wide my knowledge is of the news in the past year or years before.

I simply pulled the list from TIME.com, looked at it and typed a description of who I recognize, and why I think they were nominated...all without clicking on their names or googleing.

1. Joseph Stiglitz - World renowned American economist. He has either won a Nobel prize or is a strong candidate for one.

2. Reed Hastings - Netflix CEO. He found Netflix either in 1997 or 99. A forward thinker in the way consumers consume home media. Pioneered mailing of dvds to home and "no late fees". This reason along with the continual reduced monthly subscription rates both attracted 10 - 20 million subscribers. It also put Blockbuster out of business. Hastings named his company 'NET-flix' not 'RENT-flix' because from the every beginning he foresaw consumers "instantly watching" movies and tv shows through streaming. DVD rental was simply a means to that end.

3. Amy Poehler - American comedian. Became widely popular on Saturday Night Live, performing sketch comedy and reporting the news with comedy. She later branched out to doing feature films which include, Baby Mama with Tina Fey, and Hamlet 2 with Steve Coogan.

She can currently be seen on the successful NBC comedy, "Parks and Recreation."

4. Geoffrey Canada - founded the Harlem Academy. The goal was to bring young minds from low socio-economic status and prepare them for college. Canada's (graduate of Harvard) enthusiasm is so apparent for this calling of his that he has been profiled in magazines, on Oprah - numerous times, talk shows, and a popular documentary was made with him and his academy at the center. The documentary is called, "Waiting for Superman" directed by David Guggenheim.

5. Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder and CEO of Facebook.com - the social network that has had an impact in me, yours and all almost 600 million users all around the world. Facebook has permeated the entire internet in just a short period of time, since 2004. Zuckerberg, also attended Harvard, except did not graduate, donated $100 million to the New Jersey School System. This announcement was featured on Oprah in 2010 along with Geoffrey Canada and mayor of New Jersey, Cory Booker. A very critical acclaimed movie was made about the founding of facebook called "The Social Network" which earned the academy award for best screenplay. The movie also grossed over $100 million.

Many high-profile guests have visited Facebook head-quarters in Palo Alto, CA, including President Barack Obama who recently held a town hall meeting.

Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire, and Facebook is valued at about $50 billion.

6. Jilian Assange - controversial founder of Wikileaks - Assange was in the news pretty much throughout the whole of 2010. Wikileaks is a website that allows the anonymous submission of secret government details to be viewed openly, which does not make the U.S. government very happy.

7. Lamido Sanusi - Nigerian CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) governor. He was appointed the governor of the CBN at the height of the world economic collapse around June 2009. He immediately took drastic steps - he consolidated banks, fired about 9 bank executives and hopefully began steps to reducing corruption in the country.

8. Colin Firth - actor. British actor who has never made a bad performance (my opinion) finally got his due when he won the Oscar for "The King's Speech" he also won the BAFTA for the same role. He also made an acclaimed performance in A Single Man directed by Tom Ford.

9. Joe Biden - Vice President of the United States. Besides that, I really don't know why he is on this list.

10. Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He has been very particular about the state of education in his city.

11. Michelle Obama - wife of President Barack Obama aka. First Lady of the U.S. - She was very particular about child obesity and the kind of food that children eat in schools.

12. Tom Ford - Fashion Designer and Director. Only directed one film and did an excellent job at it...A Single Man, with Colin Firth.

13. Nicholas Sarkozy - President of France.

14. Matthew Weiner - Creator of Emmy award winning tv show, Mad Men on AMC. Matthew Weiner also created The Sopranos which had a very long run on HBO (about 6-9 seasons). Interestingly, he pitched Mad Men to producers first but they turned that down. Only after the success and awards that The Sopranos had and won, was he able to make Mad Men.

15. Lisa Jackson - Michael Jackson's sister?

16. Justin Bieber - World wide singer/performer came into the limelight from posting youtube videos after being discovered by Usher. He has mezmerized young girls...and their moms, Beiber Fever. He has appeared an every talk show including Oprah, sang in the new "We are the world" video, and performed at every musical and movie award show.

17. Prince William and Kate Middleton - the are English. William in the royal family married Kate who he dated for about 8 years. They had a huge wedding in May 2011 which was broadcast live all over the world, including YouTube for the very first time.

18. Kim Jong Un - probably Kim Jong Il's son.

19. Oprah Winfrey - over 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, enough said. She has interviewed everybody, presidents, royals, actors, regular people, Michael Jackson, and puppets. She ran the Oprah show under her production company, Harpo Productions (Oprah spelt backwards). She became the wealthiest African-American, a billionaire, Tom Cruise jumped on her couch, supported Obama and cried when he won. On January 1, 2011, she started her own network called OWN, in partnership with Discovery Networks. She has an XM satellite show, and has spawned tv and XM careers of Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and that guy that does home furnishings.

20. Larry Page - co-founder of Google, Inc. Page, along with co-founder Sergei Brin, worked on their Stanford project that hoped to index the entire web and make it search very easy and effective. After Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google recently stepped down after nearly a decade of running the company, Larry Page stepped up. Let's see where he takes Google with other prominent competition from companies like, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Apple and Amazon.

21. David Cameron - Britain's prime minister.

22. John Lasseter - founded Pixar animation studios along with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmul around 1994. With him as the head of Pixar, the company is about 11 for 11. All movies have been very very successful, most have taken academy awards for best animated film year after year, while some have even made it to the best film category.

Films
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life
Monster's Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Wall-E
Up
Toy Tory 3

Upcoming Films
Newt
Cars 2

After Walt Disney Studios acquired Pixar, John Lasseter became head of Disney Animation. He is now both in charge of movies that Pixar makes, and the others that Disney makes.

23. Mukesh Ambani - Indian Billionaire, among the world's wealthiest few. He is the guy that has that 27 story house in India.

24. Bruno Mars - Singer

25. General David Petraeus - He is the leader of the U.S. Armed Forces, the guy that led U.S. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and stuff.

26. Matt Damon and Gary White - Matt Damon is a Harvard trained actor, he lost many pounds to be in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". He played Ryan. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Good Will Hunting" with his close friend Ben Affleck which won each of them Oscars.

I'm guessing the reason he in on the TIME 100 most influential people is because of Water.org The organization that looks to provide water for the those that do not have easy access. Water.org posted a challenge for teams of students in universities to come of with creative ways of solving water problems. Scholarships was provided to the winners.

27. Sting - singer, who likes to do good things around the world, I guess.

28. Michelle Rhee - Washington DC School Superintendent. When she came into office, she fired bad teachers. She was also featured in the acclaimed documentary, "Waiting for superman"

29. Mark Whalberg - actor. Recently did a good job in "The Fighter". Heard he had to "fight" to get the movie made. Not sure why he's on the list though.

30. Arianna Huffington - Created the Huffington Post. This popular blog, quickly became a source of real news, to compete with newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post and The New Yorker. Arianna a workaholic holds about 3 or 4 cell phones at any one time. She is a vocal proponent of better education. aol bought the huffington post for $315 million recently, Arianna banks some big dough!

31. Barack Obama - President of The United States. Won Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and donated the million dollars to charity because he felt he had not yet earned it. Did something big in Health Care. He onced played basket ball for leisure got injured on his eye and got 12 stitches.

32. Scott Rudin - film producer. He produced the award winning and financially successful movie, "The Social Network."

33. John Boehner - prominent member of the Republican party of the U.S.

33 out of 100. 1/3rd not bad.

Oops, skipped over...
Hillary Clinton - U.S. Secretary of State. She campained hard for the presidency. She may not have won, but she holds a very strong position in the White House. She travels overseas a lot to speak with world leaders. She had that worried look in the photo while Barack Obama et al watched as US Navy Seals raided Osama Bin Laden's compound

The Commercial Appeal paper written on me on my day of Bachelors degree graduation

Long journey has a degree of satisfaction -- U of M ceremonies at Forum represent opportunity to new class of graduates

Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - Sunday, May 7, 2006

Author: Lindsay Melvin Special to The Commercial Appeal

Double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer engineering is no easy task, says Folarin Osibodu. But neither was leaving his parents and friends in Nigeria.

"Here you have a lot of opportunities," said Osibodu.[...]

[...]Before coming to the University of Memphis, he spent a semester at a Nigerian college where professors were underpaid and students jockeyed for computers.

"In Nigeria, we don't have one computer for each person, and that just doesn't bring out your best creative work," he said.

His sister attended U of M as well, and this past week, for the first time in two years, his family came together to see them both graduate with honors.

"My father says he's the proudest father ever," said Osibodu.


...


For Osibodu, school's not over yet. He's still planning to go on for his MBA, and although he'd prefer to stay in the "land of opportunity," returning to Nigeria with an education is the best solution he can think of to help better his homeland, he said.

"No matter how much money you spend, knowledge needs to be there. Knowledge is power," he said.

Caption: Photo
Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal Yoon Hong (left), 27, shares a laugh with her friend and fellow graduate Kyunghwa Kim, 24, during University of Memphis graduation ceremonies at FedExForum. They were among 1,600 receiving degrees Saturday.

Edition: Final
Section: Metro
Page: B1
Index Terms: graduation college speech
Record Number: 1117F4F269C4FA35
Copyright (c) 2006 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN