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April 30, 2013
Never Worn, But Not For The Reason You Think
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I remember learning for my MBA about people's shopping addiction (aka compulsive shopping ) and how it consumes their time and money ...
April 29, 2013
Bathroom Kudos
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Going to a restaurant the other night, I stepped into the men's room for a minute and noticed this sticker on the right of the mirror ...
Credit Card Cola
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This is great--finally soda vending machines that take credit cards. No more looking for change or losing your cash in the machine. ...
April 28, 2013
Vandalism and Vomit -- Only $2,500!
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So we went to look at a new dorm-type apartment for my daughter. She and her friends want to be near campus and where everyone hangs ou...
The Pain of Parkinson's
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At the dedication of the new George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the picture of the elder Bush in a wheelchair...
April 27, 2013
Who Hasn't Been There?
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So I was teaching a course this week in enterprise architecture, and some of the students asked about EA having a bad rap and brand (i.e. ...
April 25, 2013
Watch Out Below
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This picture from this week in D.C. needs no commentary... except maybe, that's no good! "Over here, over here, I got it!&qu...
Anyway You Spell It
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Not to be mean or anything, but this was an eye-catching advertisement for this vendor's services. But whether or not you can spell...
April 24, 2013
Drama In D.C.
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Wanted to share two unrelated, but noteworthy items from my week so far... First, this tree went down right in the middle of traffic in ...
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April 21, 2013
What's Diplomacy Anyway?
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This was a humorous engraved stone that I found in a gift shop today. It is a Concord "Words From The Wise," engraved pape...
Dastardly Bastards
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I sit here this morning filled with indignation for the victims of a series of brutal monsters who have committed horrific acts against ch...
April 20, 2013
Don't Stampede On Others' Feelings
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I took this picture of a cow stampede when hiking in the mountains. The cows first came up to us all friendly and then after staying ...
Survivable Water Pipes
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When an earthquake strikes, it is not just the immediate loss of life that is a concern, but the longer-term damage to critical infrastruc...
April 19, 2013
Get Yourself An IT Management Agent
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Management agents are not just for Hollywood stars anymore... Bloomberg BusinessWeek (10 April 2013) says really good freelance applica...
April 18, 2013
Rape-aXe Takes Hold
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As a follow up to my blog on Tuesday about the Anti-rape Bra, a colleague gave me the lead to another prototype device called Rape-aXe...
April 16, 2013
World's Most Beautiful Elevator
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The world's most beautiful elevator has got to be the AquaDom in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin. It contains a cylindrical elev...
A Shocking Bra To Stop Attackers
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In the medieval times, to help ensure fidelity of partners and protect against rape, they invented something called a chastity belt--I a...
April 14, 2013
Still In Love After 58 Years Together
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My mom and dad are still in love after almost 58 years of marriage. While I already knew how special they were to each other--through t...
What Are You Staring At?
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This deer and I had a staring contest this morning, and I lost. The deer didn't let me get too close, before he ran off into the woo...
April 13, 2013
Academic Assignments In Hate
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According to the New York Times (12 April 2013) a high school English teacher in Albany, New York on Monday asked students to write a per...
Colonize and Survive
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It was interesting to read in Popular Science (12 April 2013) that the famous physicist and futurist, Stephen Hawking, stated that huma...
April 12, 2013
Tiptoeing Or Delivering A Knockout Punch
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Russia (and many others countries) develop some really kick-a*s weapons--especially, when they are so simple, yet so devastatingly effecti...
April 10, 2013
Growing And Getting Old Together
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The Wall Street Journal had a good book review on "The End of Sex" by Donna Freitas. The book is about the casual hook-up cu...
April 9, 2013
Savor Every Moment
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This is an awesome slow motion video from Gizmodo . It is taken with a Phantom Flex4k camera at 1000 frames per second and high resolut...
April 7, 2013
Rock Climbing With Rebecca
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So we took my daughter, Rebecca, and a friend indoor rock climbing and it was awesome! Each of them climbed three walls of increasing di...
The Great Big Apple Donut
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Some people think the new Apple HQs (or Apple Campus 2) looks like a flying saucer or spaceship--but to me, it looks like a great big donu...
April 6, 2013
Go Simple!
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Two interesting recent articles discuss the importance of building in simplicity to product design to make things more useful to people. ...
April 5, 2013
Don't Underestimate The Stress of Change
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Regularly in IT, we field new technologies and systems. Often, we don't pay enough attention to the details of change management a...
April 4, 2013
Difficult Employees x 7
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So I was learning about some management best practices in terms of there being 7 major types of difficult employees: Challengers --emplo...
April 2, 2013
Decision-Making WIth Perspective, Please.
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An article in Fast Company (1 April 2013) by Chip and Dan Heath tells us to use the 10/10/10 rule for making tough decisions. That is t...
April 1, 2013
When The Solution Is Worse Than The Problem
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Not to be crude, but we had some clogged plumbing over the weekend. We tried everything to get it working again--plunger, snake, and ...
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