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<rss version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>My name is Ryan Yam and this is my blog.  I’m a techie traveler photographer ninja who’s into startups, investing in the stock market, dissects SAP during the day while dreaming of that next great adventure.</description><title>RYNYM</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ryanyam)</generator><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/</link><item><title>A Passion for Beards</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7an04UR371qz7x89o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Passion for Beards&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/966760610</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/966760610</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:09:40 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Spending on Experiences Instead of Possessions Results in More Satisfaction</title><description>&lt;a href="http://lifehacker.com/5608980/spend-on-experiences-instead-of-possessions-for-longer-happiness?skyline=true&amp;s=i"&gt;Spending on Experiences Instead of Possessions Results in More Satisfaction&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;(Researchers) have found that our types of purchases, their size and frequency, and even the timing of the spending all affect long-term happiness. One major finding is that spending money for an experience — concert tickets, French lessons, sushi-rolling classes, a hotel room in Monaco — produces longer-lasting satisfaction than spending money on plain old stuff.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/932312813</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/932312813</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:40:31 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Couple Dynamics
ilovecharts:

via friend of the blog, kaitlin
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6xxu5d3jJ1qa0uujo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Couple Dynamics&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/932193056/via-friend-of-the-blog-kaitlin"&gt;ilovecharts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;via friend of the blog, &lt;a href="http://kaitlin.tumblr.com/"&gt;kaitlin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/932304997</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/932304997</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:38:01 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Vampires Suck would probably be the first spoof movie I’d...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="254"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksJvEH-R_ew&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ksJvEH-R_ew&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vampires Suck would probably be the first spoof movie I’d want to actually go see :D&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://affairwithanarchy.tumblr.com/post/922405301/vampires-suck-movie-trailer-you-guys-have-prolly"&gt;affairwithanarchy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vampires Suck movie trailer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You guys have prolly seen this trailer but omfg this is going to be so EPIC. And to think it’s starring Matt Lanter as Edward Sullen. Yes, epic indeed. Other cast members that I’m looking out for are Arielle Kebbel and the lovely Chris Riggi from those few episodes of Gossip Girl. Love love love.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923149884</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923149884</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:31:50 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Iron Chef America Secret Ingredient
I always remember Mark...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXqY8EZ21-g&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXqY8EZ21-g&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Iron Chef America Secret Ingredient&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I always remember Mark Dacascos from all his old ninja or samurai movies &amp; what not.  I &lt;3 ninjas.  Always wanted to be one ever since I was a kid.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923137918</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923137918</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:28:23 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Usher is one lucky guy</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6lhx5fGTa1qcslzuo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Usher is one lucky guy&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923103710</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/923103710</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:17:46 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>If I can’t surf maybe I could tarp surf</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t6-vb20srZI&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t6-vb20srZI&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I can’t surf maybe I could tarp surf&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/906382689</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/906382689</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:39:05 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>You Give Me Something</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I4HIyOWtzlo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I4HIyOWtzlo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;You Give Me Something&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/898021485</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/898021485</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:34:41 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/onepage/"&gt;Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;This is a free ebook on personal finance by The Simple Dollar Blog.  It’s basically a collection of the most essential tips you need to manage your finance.  I highly suggest you take time to read this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/download/EverythingYouEverReallyNeededToKnowAboutPersonalFinanceOnJustOne/OnePage.pdf"&gt;Direct download link to the ebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/855864238</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/855864238</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:15:51 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Forget Brainstorming</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/12/forget-brainstorming.html"&gt;Forget Brainstorming&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://toldorknown.com/post/845786711/forget-brainstorming"&gt;toldorknown&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, &lt;em&gt;Applied Imagination&lt;/em&gt;. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;None of us are as dumb as all of us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/fritinancy"&gt;@fritinancy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/852715376</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/852715376</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:24:18 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Firefox Tab Candy is something I really am looking forward to....</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13560319&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13560319&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13560319&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firefox Tab Candy is something I really am looking forward to. All you tab monsters will want this.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/852712025</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/852712025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:23:19 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>BB King / Gary Moore - The Thrill is Gone
Every time I hear this...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lqAuuIDU2sw&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lqAuuIDU2sw&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;BB King / Gary Moore - The Thrill is Gone&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every time I hear this I wanna just go find a guitar and start playing on the spot.  Can’t wait to get home and start playing some blues. I think I just found something to keep myself busy for the weekend :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/849011071</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/849011071</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:18:26 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Old Spice Cake via http://www.canucklehead.ca/</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l601j8OAic1qzrr0co1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old Spice Cake via &lt;a href="http://www.canucklehead.ca/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.canucklehead.ca/"&gt;http://www.canucklehead.ca/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/849006542</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/849006542</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:16:16 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I..."</title><description>“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Bryan Mills from the movie Taken&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/845133590</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/845133590</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:30:28 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"She’s better than the girl of my dreams… She’s real"</title><description>“She’s better than the girl of my dreams… She’s real”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;500 Days of Summer&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/835729784</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/835729784</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:14:51 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>This is the first tilt-shift video I’ve seen.  These are...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9679622&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9679622&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9679622&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the first tilt-shift video I’ve seen.  These are shots from NYC and it looks like an animated miniature movie.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/835009329</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/835009329</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:07:40 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Laura Jensen - Use Somebody (Cover)</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EHUByurhHE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0EHUByurhHE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laura Jensen - Use Somebody (Cover)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/822600481</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/822600481</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:11:13 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>A touching Old Spice ad from the actor to his daughter</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JvuYcbgZl-U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JvuYcbgZl-U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A touching Old Spice ad from the actor to his daughter&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/814828929</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/814828929</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:12:01 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Stars (acoustic) by Switchfoot is the soundtrack of my morning....</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6v21K5gZgJo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6v21K5gZgJo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stars (acoustic) by Switchfoot is the soundtrack of my morning. I hate that this isn’t in Grooveshark.  Anyone care to extract the audio and upload it there?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope that this typhoon doesn’t get too strong.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/804689467</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/804689467</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:05:56 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>How often do you do it?</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hPRoa8i440U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hPRoa8i440U&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;How often do you do it?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/779733467</link><guid>http://www.ryanyam.com/post/779733467</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:50:43 +0800</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
