2011

Most of you college kids know by now that I am a corporate slave. While you guys are sleeping of your Thursday night DT/trommy hangover (all alone jimmy?) I am getting up before dawn, pounding coffee, and bumping NPR on the way to work. Most of you fools probably don't know what NPR is. (Hint: Its not an electro song). This is a future that might be pretty close for some of you. Avoid it as long as possible. Trust me.

For most companies, at the beginning of every new year they take the time to review the accomplishments from the previous year as well as outline some of the goals for the upcoming quarters. It gives the employees a chance to come together and reflect on their achievements as well as rededicate themselves to the task ahead. My department just recently had one of these meetings and it reminded me of some of the themes echoed in GP's previous blog post.

2010 was an awesome year for Hiplectic. There is some hilarious and really creative stuff going into this site. However, like Pruett, I have acknowledged that my blog game has been pretty flaccid. Now that my ugly mug is on the banner I feel that I need to rededicate myself to posting more often. If not to let you all in on something that has caught my interest, then at the very least to push that NYE story off the front page. (3000 words and you didn't even bang the ginger?!)

One of my favorite subjects when I first started reading the blog was about the social commentary on "hipsters." So when I read this article today it reminded me of my first days posting and commenting on hiplectic. Apparently there is some SF start up actually called Hipster. (One could argue that start ups are not hip after the whole Zuckerberg/Timberlake experience) The best part is that nobody really knows what the company does. This is a good (short) article from TechCrunch on the company and what it means to be a hipster. It's not a song or a video but I think some of you will still enjoy it.

If anything, we need to start hating on this company for copping our steez. Hipster does sound similar to hiplectic and they could be stealing some of our traffic. I mean, nobody knows what our website does either. Race... get your homies at 4chan to organize a DDOS attack or something.

Good luck in 2011 boys.