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,...

Attention....

Tweet Don’t choke on your Ritalin when I say this, but I love to work with people who have ADD. Or, maybe I can’t stand working with people that don’t, the bores.  Either way, I made a startling discovery today:  I have deep respect for those that can run laps (and rabbit trails) around the others. After a meeting this morning (with someone whom I had assumed to be more OCD than ADD), I exclaimed to a colleague, “[Blank] is VERY smart!”  I loved the fact that we were carrying...

On the brink....

Tweet Back to the Future and possibly The Secret of my Success are two of my favorite movies. I say that with pride and sort of as an eff you to my elitist friends that urge Godfather, Citizen Kane and the like. Don’t get me wrong, I have studied those movies, written papers about them, and appreciate them, but the Michael J. Fox movies resonate with me. I was a kid in the eighties. Larger than life images of Ronald Reagan, cocaine and the defeat of communism loomed large. Michael J. Fox landed...

Both Sides of My Mouth…...

Tweet Seriously. I don’t need this crap. My dog died, my wife left puts up with me, my beer won’t get me drunk anymore, and while by day I am trying to market our fair region with all the top ten lists, this story came out today. Seriously, you freaking hackers are giving my region a bad...

Throw it away, make the wife happy...

Tweet Merlin Mann helps clutter kings like me with serial mice and 1G analog cell phones stuffed away in junk drawers clean out their lives. If the stuff that you accumulate doesn’t help get you closer to the life you want to have, it’s simply not worth...

Get out of iLine, now...

Tweet Word from the inside says that if you go to a Cingular or apple store today and they do not have an iPhone that they will mail you one. May not help with the iWood tonight but will keep your iAss out of the iSun....

Grand Central is finally here, for me...

Tweet Just before Google snatches them up, Grand Central is offering service in my area. If you haven’t heard of it, the application is very helpful to distribute only one “anonymous” number to reach you at all your digits....

Out of curiosity?...

Tweet Has anyone heard Alanis Morisette’s latest remake of Ironic. It is sweet how one artist can “cover” her own song until it is back in again, don’t you...

Shhhhhhh… Don’t tell anyone...

Tweet What was I thinking today? I don’t know, but I am typing this post on my new...

Would you shop at my store?...

Tweet Why should I get off my couch?  Certainly, it should not be to got into Circuit City. Tonight, after sufficient procrastination for my dad’s birthday present, I did my standard online shopping comparison: which relies on a good blog review of the product that I am searching, a froogle of the product, and a quality vs. price comparison. I found that the pricepointed product at Sam’s, was a terrible product–go figure.  Instead I opted for a product with a good review that I have...