- Rented Rio Bravo this weekend: John Wayne in the John Wayne role but Dean Martin steals the picture! Angie Dickinson at 27: Wowzah! #
Twitter: 2010-06-07
The Ultimate Goal of Planning
The ultimate goal of planning is the implementation of plans. One is interested in the planning process and its product — the plan, only insofar that it leads to the effective execution of the project.
Twitter: 2010-06-06
- RT @eddiepepitone: Sundays in my household is a time for reflection, murderous rage, meat and anxiety about monday. #
Flexibility
The customer’s needs must dictate the project’s objectives, and in a dynamic environment, invariably one of these objectives is flexibility.
Early Planning
The maximum potential for influencing project outcomes occurs early in the conceptual and definition phases of the project. Autopsies of most failed projects indicate that the disasters were “well planned” to happen from the start. Therefore, even in an era of uncertainty and accelerated speed, don’t rush to execution with only superficial preparations — invest quality time in early planning.
A Word of Advice on SAT Prep
My son and some classmates are at our house studying for tomorrow’s SAT subject exams . . .
“How’s it going?” I ask.
“It sucks,” the boy says.
“Well,” I say, “since I’ve already completed high school and Lightning doesn’t have to go, we’re going to go to the park.”
“Aren’t you cool,” he says.
“We are,” I say. “We’re cool. Can I offer a word of advice? Just relax. It’s not like your whole future depends on the outcome of this test . . . no wait, it does! AAAAHHHH! PANIC!!!”
John Wooden, 1910-2010
I thought John Wooden was going to live forever.
I grew up here in Southern California watching his UCLA Bruin teams dominate college basketball. The main thing I learned from that is that success is a result of preparation. Coach Wooden was a teacher. After he retired, he used to say that he didn’t miss the games and he didn’t miss the tournaments, but he did miss the practices.
College basketball today is unwatchable, in my opinion. The coaches are all bug-eyed lunatics, screaming, waving their arms, tearing their hair out. I’m sickened by these college basketball coaches and their look-at-me theatrics.
Does that help the team win? I watched UCLA win 10 championships and I don’t think Coach Wooden even got out of his chair the whole time. Draw your own conclusions.
Quote of the Day
It’s a little oily, I’ll grant you that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to present an award to Sir Paul McCartney. Let’s rock!
Quote of the Day
You frogs can kiss my . . . how do you say “big black ass” in French?
Divorce is Bad for the Planet
Al, Tipper Gore Shock Friends With Divorce Announcement
As if the burden of divorce weren’t bad enough, people with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming, according to a study by Michigan State University.
Divorced couples use up more space in their respective homes, which amounts to to 38 million more rooms worldwide to light, heat and cool, noted the report.
And people who divorced used 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water than they would otherwise in 2005.
Dissolving a marriage also means doubling possessions, from the lowly can opener to the SUV. The report, however, did not estimate how many more natural resources the children of shared-custody parents consume by getting birthday and holiday gifts twice.
Nor did it count the greenhouse gases spent to shuttle kids between their pair of energy-hogging households.
Ouch!
Cops: Porn actor kills 1, hurts 2 in L.A.
This guy must be incredibly well-built — wait, what?
Henderson the Rain King
“There is that poem about the nightingale singing that humankind cannot stand too much reality. But how much unreality can it stand? Do you follow? You understand me?”
“Me unnastand, sah.”
“I fired that question right back at the nightingale. So what if reality may be terrible? It’s better than what we’ve got.”
“Kay, sah. Okay.”
“All right, I let you out of it. It’s better than what I’ve got. But every man feels from his soul that he has got to carry his life to a certain depth. Well, I have got to go on because I haven’t reached that depth yet. You get it?”
“Yes, sah.”
Hearty and Fleeting
Then, before the rain began, the old place appeared to be, not a lost way of life or one to be imitated, but a vision of life as hearty and fleeting as laughter . . .
Rt 66 Diner–Making Shakes
Originally uploaded by richardzx
Twitter: 2010-05-31
- In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked at as something shocking now heaven knows, anything goes #
EppsNet Love Song of the Day: Bargain
I’d gladly lose me to find you
I’d gladly give up all I had
To find you I’d suffer anything and be gladI’d pay any price just to get you
I’d work all my life and I will
To win you I’d stand naked, stoned and stabbedI’d call that a bargain
The best I ever had
How to Be a Denialist
- Allege that there’s a conspiracy. Claim that scientific consensus has arisen through collusion rather than the accumulation of evidence.
- Use fake experts to support your story. “Denial always starts with a cadre of pseudo-experts with some credentials that create a facade of credibility,” says Seth Kalichman of the University of Connecticut.
- Cherry-pick the evidence: trumpet whatever appears to support your case and ignore or rubbish the rest. Carry on trotting out supportive evidence even after it has been discredited.
- Create impossible standards for your opponents. Claim that the existing evidence is not good enough and demand more. If your opponent comes up with evidence you have demanded, move the goalposts.
- Use logical fallacies. Hitler opposed smoking, so anti-smoking measures are Nazi. Deliberately misrepresent the scientific consensus and then knock down your straw man.
- Manufacture doubt. Falsely portray scientists as so divided that basing policy on their advice would be premature. Insist “both sides” must be heard and cry censorship when “dissenting” arguments or experts are rejected.
Gary Coleman, 1968-2010
Sad . . . now he’ll never know what Willis was talking about . . .
Happiness
Twitter: 2010-05-26
- USC men's tennis wins NCAA championship!: http://goo.gl/UjM9 #
