Last night the cardiac kids on the Red Sox were pronounced dead by virtually everyone. Unfortunately for those who’ve bought the Tampa Bay Rays fairy tale story, the Sox didn’t have the decency to lay down and die. They did what winners do: win. By the end of the second inning last night, most of the fair weather fans had given up on the Sox. Dice was getting rocked and it seemed like the game would go the way of…
Most of us hate to admit that we make judgements on people the minute they walk in the door. As Jonathan Fields points out in his post “Likeability Matters” in sales, you’re always told its not personal, but it is… People buy or reject YOU as much as they buy IT That’s a tough pill to swallow, because it delivers all that potential rejection right back into your lap. It makes it emotional, personal. It makes it much harder to…
Helen Algier (I’ll put up a better image when I can dl from my digital cam) My grandmother, Helen McCowan Algier, turned 100 years old on Monday. “I never thought I’d live this long…” she notes. 100 years of change. Think about all the things she’s seen come and go… Telephones were a relatively new device, having been patented in 1876. They were fairly rare in the rural parts of the country. Autos were rare, the first…
I’m in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for my grandmother’s 100th birthday – I’ll be back and blogging Wednesday. Here are a couple pictures via the iPhone – many more to come off the digital later.
I’m not certain the tune, but the Coltrane sound is unmistakeable and heartwrenching…with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. More on Coltrane…
Notice to Staff and Stakeholders: Reorg. One of the funnier blog posts I’ve read in recent memory. Ann Handley gets what is is like to be support staff for a teenager. Greetings all staff and stakeholders of Coddled Teenage Boy Enterprises: It has come to my attention that there has been some confusion about your roles and responsibilities within the organization, which has led to infighting, yelling, and name-calling—this happened just yesterday, prior to 7 AM. Such behavior is both…
I’ve either got too much to say or not enough, so I will simply say that I remember. And I always will.
I’m liking the videos from Vimeo more – the quality is much better.
I was listening to This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte this morning and the gang got onto a topic that I’ve been thinking alot about lately: as bloggers, what should we do when we need to edit live posts? The topic was prompted by Xeni Jardin’s purging of every single reference (among the hundreds) to Violet Blue on BoingBoing.com with no notice. That matter’s been covered to death but you can catch up with the story here in the…