I have spent the last few minutes trying to come up with a good excuse to why I haven’t posted in the past few weeks. Early January was excusable. I was snowboarding in Lake Tahoe from Jan 2^nd to the 9^th. Just before I left my hard drive crashed. I didn’t have time for diagnosis during the holiday season,so I didn’t get around to getting a replacement from Dell until after my trip. After the new hard drive arrived my memory went corrupt. It took several days to figure that out and get replacements. That covers early January,the rest is inexcusable. I made a promise to myself today to get back on track and post more. So here is my triumphant return!

Earlier this week I was out to lunch with a College Humor colleague. He happens to be the only Connected Ventures employee with a kid. We got talking about toys. He told me his son plays with Ghostbusters and Thomas the train. Has the toy industry really not done any innovation in the last 20 years to capture kid’s attention?

I was on the subway heading uptown to meet a friend and I saw a billboard for this new TV series about the Wizard of oz. From the billboard I gathered it would be about the other side (not Pink Floyd) of Oz. Maybe it’s about what the tin man’s favorite drink is, or that the lion was nailing Dorothy on the side? Either way, it’s interesting that so many years later that’s what people are still into.

Year after year the top rated rock and roll songs are from the 80’s. The coolest cars are from the 40’s to 70’s. People collect just about anything that’s old, it obvious that is has some value to someone. What it comes down to, is a lot of the things we grew up with are still awesome today. My question is, in 20 years will we look back at things from this time and think the same way? Because there a very few things that I have recently discovered that are leaving a lasting impression. But I will never forget the first time I got a plasma screen TV, it must have been a similar experience to what it was like to get a color TV.

My apologies for not updating the last few days. I have been really busy with some stuff…

Roddy (my partner) and I just finalized and registered Media Next, Inc, which is now the parent company of PriceAdvance. We got this sweet embosser as well! PriceAdvance is the project we have been working on the past few months that is going to slap price comparison in the face! It was never intended to be a stealth startup, but it seems a lot of people started taking interest in what we were doing, so we decided to keep things under wraps until we launch. If things continue to go smoothly thats going to be really soon! One of the main purposes of this blog was to log my experience with building PriceAdvance from the ground up. After we launch I will backtrack a little and keep a real log of whats going on moving forward.

I also started hacking together the newest version of Prototype into the XUL library I have recently been maintaining. It was a little annoying that I released 1.6 RC1 only hours before they released 1.6 final. But I should have something up in the next day or two.

Since Fox will not be airing a new season of “24″ due to the writers’ strike, they plan to air a season that was originally filmed in 1994. CollegeHumor obtained this exclusive clip.

* There should be no excuse next year for “24″ sucking as much as it did this past season. If the strike ever ends, they will have an entire year to rewrite and re-shoot the season. I hope everyone is ready for a shit load of reality TV!

Patrick was on the subway the other day and saw the girl of his dreams, but she got away. Heres his story…

Patrick discusses the girl of his dreams from Jakob Lodwick on Vimeo.

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If you have any information that could lead to Patrick finding his girl, please visit nygirlofmydreams.com.

I’m up in Boston with Roddy and we were on our way back from breakfast. I got the banana french toast, it was delicious. But on the radio they were playing Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger and it reminded me of the video we made at Connected Ventures. This already had its viral debut a few months ago, if you didn’t see it you probably live in a hole. But here it is again.

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

Hi, welcome to my kick ass wordpress blog. Sure installing it takes less then 5 minutes as they promise, but setting it up the way you like takes hours!

How rude of me, let me introduce myself…

I’m Adam Gotterer. I’m an entrepreneur, web developer, geek, eleven time oscar winner, astronaut and inventor of the rotary engine. I work for full time for a company called Connected Ventures, which is the parent company for CollegeHumor.com, Vimeo.com and Bustedtees.com. It’s probably the coolest place in the entire world to work and you should be jealous (hiring). I’m a senior web developer for CollegeHumor. My job focus is primarily backend PHP and front-end JavaScript. I’m really good at what I do.

I’m in the process of bootstrapping my own startup with my buddy Roddy. We hope to make it big with a new twist on product comparison. More to come soon…. In the mean time check out some of Roddy’s other sites: startupshwag.com, liveitgreen.com, and refreshthing.com.