Jeremy Floyd on Hallerin Hilton Hill...

Tweet In case you missed it, Hallerin Hilton Hill had me on the show to talk about Twitter. The experience was a lot of fun, but I think he may have exaggerated the magnitude of my abilities–just a little. Hallerin even endorsed @jfloyd for the East Tennessee’s Best Tweeter award. For your convenience, you can vote for East Tennessee’s Best Tweeter...

Planting Vision...

Tweet For the past four weeks I have spent Weekends working long hours in the yard. After, as the wife says, neglecting the yard for several years, I am interested and excited in transforming dirt into something beautiful. While laboring away under the hot sun with the assistance of a few fine friends (kids aged 7 and 2), I have reflected on the fun torture that was working with my dad in the yard when I was young. In particular, I remember one event where my dad had created a raised bed in front of their...

Think...

Tweet I find myself living in yesterday’s thought sometimes. With 2800 tweets to read, 145 unanswered emails, 2 blog posts to write, 4 powerpoint decks to craft, a dog that needs to go outside, a car that needs an oil change, an economy that is flatly in the crapper, I think about all that I have to think about rather than the time to genuinely think. Great writers and comedians explore the nuance of mundane life. Seth Godin can observe a Cranium game placed in Starbucks and Seinfeld can exaggerate the...

Happy Hollow-days...

Tweet Most of my commentary here is generally divided into two categories: sassy commentary and technology/marketing posts. This post, however, fits neither, so save yourself now if you came here to find those! As I drove home from our weekly family gathering the other night, I gazed off into the ornamental decor and noticed this one beautiful grouping of three trees that were perfectly cone shaped. I am sure that you have seen these decorations. lights fill thin bands of plastic, so that when you erect the...

What Social Media Applications Are You U...

Tweet I am running a poll over at my Squidoo lens. Let me know what you are currently using. If I didn’t list the application of your choice, comment below. note: At the time of posting, I was having some uptime issues with Squidoo, so if it doesn’t load the first time, try, try...

For my Brother, the Scholar, Freaking Ca...

Tweet Read this line today, and thought of my brother. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be decived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age. -C.S. Lewis, “Learning in War-Time” And by the way, I think I am going to start calling the Internets “the great cataract of...

Any Word on the Pickens Plan...

Tweet I saw this commercial on television yesterday. I had never heard of T. Boone Pickens before, but after a wikipedia search, I was familiar with some of his work in oil.  Something about this advertisement seemed to make a lot of sense (by being no-nonsense), but I am curious whether there is some dark secrets about this guy. He has definitely employed some great marketing people with a nice site, YouTube channel, twitter feed, blog, myspace, facebook page. Eat your heart out Al Gore…here is a...

Teetotaller Was Totally Right...

Tweet I was under the assumption that Teetotalism was being a complete lush, but in a conversation with Doug the other day he used it in a story (not about me, thank you, Alice) describing someone who did not drink a drop. Now, in the past, Doug used “site for sore eyes” to mean the opposite (i.e. seeing someone when you didn’t want to see them. Well, Doug was right. Teetotallers or tea totallers are people that prefer tea over other (namely alcoholic)...

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Friends...

Tweet Friends are important. Really important. I was thinking about another benefit of friendship today when an acquaintance on the telephone began exploring deeply personal issues and crossing boundaries with his frustrations.  I didn’t really know this guy that well, and I was a bit shocked at his behavior.  Then it dawned on me, he is friendless.  Although he has plenty of acquaintances, he has not confidant. Therefore a stranger, an animal, or a lightpost can take away his pain. High times,...