Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Rants, Start, VIPcomments, WFFF, Writing on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Intro
Well, it’s a Thursday. Once again, I’m at work early. I like the calm and quiet of the mornings. It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease. I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s. I had mostly early [...]
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Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Pics, Praise, Start, VIPcomments, Writing on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
March 20 is today’s date. This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year). There are 286 days remaining. It’s the first day of Spring! It’s also plenty of other things. Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor - an [...]
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Posted in Family, Friends, Geek, Ideas, Leadership, Life, Listening, NotHappening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been following a lot of information for several years now. I do that with blogs, with RSS feeds, with alerts, with email newsletters, with a few hard copy magazine subscriptions, with some journals, and also a lot with listening in whatever way possible.
I’ve come to some conclusions.
I can change the world.
Everyone has the [...]
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Wow. I used all caps in the subject. Why?
From a geek’s perspective, the answer is DUH!
From the regular person’s perspective, maybe the commentary below will convince you. There is No Free Lunch: Change your password NOW! By Robert X. Cringely - - And, here’s the podcast/audio version, for those of you who don’t like to [...]
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Posted in Challenge, Family, Friends, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Praise, VIPcomments, Vids on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I am in Fort Benning, GA. This trip was a surprise. Both Tim Getsch and I flew down today to surprise Terry. We both could not be more proud! Out of [UPDATE: approximately 230] 240, only 96 passed. My youngest brother is one of them.
Terry, thank you for your service and your example. You are [...]
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This is a repost. It’s worth mentioning again…
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop [...]
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As I’m working through new areas and gathering lots of info, I often take a bunch of notes. Then I organize those and try to find areas where there may be gaps. Then I try to see if I already have resources or info to fill in those gaps. Then I move on to the [...]
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Posted in Administrative, Autodidactism, Blogging, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, NotHappening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I recently took a break from blogging (both writing and reading). To put this into perspective, I follow about 160 blogs. About half of those are very much work related. I was probably spending about an hour per day reading and maybe another hour per day writing my own blog posts or responding to others.
(If anyone is paranoid [...]
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Posted in 4x4wknd, Administrative, Blogging, Geek, Ideas, Listening, Perspective, TechProfound, VIPcomments, Writing on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Tweblog
Getsch.com
4×4 Weekend
TechProfound
HoopsTech
While that subject is accurate, it’s not very true. Those are the blogs that I currently have the ability to publish to and own. They are not all that up to date.
Tweblog is current, but still could use a better About Me page.
Getsch.com is supposed to be family stuff, but it’s not really getting any [...]
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This is a good, wise read. I listed the summary and just the first line of each item. I advise reading the whole post.
Twelve ways to prevent burnout
QUICK SUMMARYTwelve simple, proven ways to avoid burnout and step back from the stress in your working life. No one has to suffer workplace stress. There’s always a way [...]
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Posted in Geek, Ideas, Leadership on April 27, 2007 | No Comments »
This is exciting.
“It may all sound futuristic, at least for near term commercial deployment, but Microsoft Research said it’s running all these applications for real. “This is not simulation, it’s all done with a standard PC, very complex software and machine vision tricks,” Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft…”
Source: Microsoft Previews Surreal Future
It’s also exciting [...]
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[See a lengthy disclosure at the end of this post.]
Hey, my brother and sister-in-law and future brother-in-law are working smart (and hard) on some new, cool technology. They recently launched a new site. And, they have a blog!!!
CheckOutMyCards.com is the new site. And, from the CheckOutMyCards.com Blog, Tim Getsch writes: A new day for baseball card collectors - [...]
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Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Family, Friends, Geek, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This morning, during my bus ride to work, several passengers were smirking and pretending not to listen to the cell pone conversation of a younger person and his friend. This boy was about 13 or 14 years old. Cell phones and text messaging are a normal part of his life. “No, dude! I send hella-text [...]
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I was just being a little goofy with a comment and rambling on. I’m sure I often make mistakes with my grammar, and sometimes I intentionally do, because I’m trying to write in a way that comes across more like I sound when I talk, or what others sound like when they talk.
What made me [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Geek, Ideas on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
With the increased needs for storage and knowing that creative people will always find creative ways to use new tools, Amazon’s S3 service is catching on. Find out how perfume sprays relate to fuel injectors, which relate to managing your projects and group collaboration.
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