My latest post at Dad-o-matic is up, “The Halloween Costume: It’ll Give You Nightmares” with tips for costume rules for tween age girls: Halloween is cold, so no exposed skin. When it doubt, wear a leotard. If the costume would display your belly button, you’re wearing a leotard. Halloween involves a lot of walking, you should wear appropriate shoes. Spike heels have no place on young girls. If the costume is too suggestive, as defined by your dad, you’re not…
TBS found their way into the anals (mispelling intentional) of sports history last night by bringing us “The Steve Harvey Game” when a router went bad in their Atlanta, rendering them technically unable to show the pregame or first inning of the Red Sox vs. Tampa Rays game 6 ALCS series. A few random observations:
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…
My parents first date was at a Brubeck show at my dad’s frat at the University of Pennsylvania, where they had to sit under the piano. Brubeck has been part of my life for all of my life…
My latest post is up over at Dad-o-matic and this one draws on the experience of my trip to Pennsylvania last week with my kids. It’s got lots of suggestions I’m betting any parent can put to use to turn the dreaded roadtrip into a cherished memory. Things like: Games – keep their heads out of books and off the game boy to avoid motion sickness. Try things like “Love Bug” where the kid gets points for every Volkswagen Bug they…
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…
I’ve got a few tools that I probably don’t mention enough. These are the things that let me work faster, better and, at least appear, smarter. They’re not the sexy, but less useful stuff, like Twitter, etc. These are the day in day out go to services that you’d be a fool not to use:
Enjoy…
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…
Times To Shutter IHT Site – Forbes.com. Bad news, indeed. I loved and regularly used the International Herald Tribune site, especially for the readspeaker implementation that allowed me to download audio versions of their stories for playback on my iPhone or iPod. I really liked the international viewpoint. I think without out a separate site, we’re losing an important voice in news. From my point of view, this is a huge mistake by the Times. They say it’s about growing…