by Mark Mason | Mar 11, 2010 | Humor
People love to talk about the “risk” of starting your own business. But I have always believed the real danger lies in depending entirely on a day job. Let me tell you a story that illustrates this perfectly. The Morning Commute Disaster Years ago, when I...
by Mark Mason | Mar 9, 2010 | Humor
My wife has always made fun of me for being an engineering geek. And she is right. I am one. I spent years designing integrated circuits before I ever wrote a blog post or recorded a podcast episode. But what I have learned over 16 years of building Late Night...
by Mark Mason | Aug 20, 2008 | Humor, Internet Marketing
I have traveled to dozens of countries over the years, and no matter where I go, I find McDonald's. I still remember seeing my first foreign McDonald's while walking down a street in Tokyo. I had a bowl of McNoodles that day. But here is what struck me during a trip...
by Mark Mason | Mar 31, 2008 | Humor
Google has a long and legendary tradition of Google April Fools pranks, and the 2008 edition was one of my favorites. Just before midnight on March 31st, I discovered that Google had launched a new Gmail feature called Gmail Custom Time. The premise was delightfully...
by Mark Mason | Dec 19, 2007 | Humor, Video
In December 2007, I shared a video that was making the rounds online: an a cappella group called Straight No Chaser performing their version of “12 Days of Christmas.” If you have never seen it, you missed one of the great viral moments of early YouTube....
by Mark Mason | Dec 17, 2007 | Humor, Video
Back in December 2007, one of the funniest things I had seen on YouTube was a video called “One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song.” If you are a bad Spanish speaker like me, this one hits different. It is a comedy sketch where someone performs a...
