Heiress Casey Johnson dead at 30
I myself have an heir named Casey, the main differences being that he’s a boy and he’s still alive.
This is definitely another blow to the idea that being fabulously well-to-do is a guarantee of any sort of happiness in life . . .
Cats do not have a word for “fetch.”
— Lightning 
If you tolerate it, you insist on it.
If you insist on it, it will be supplied.
Revision Devil Dogs, my kid’s roller hockey team, won the AAU West Coast Winternationals 16U AA championship yesterday.
The Top Scorer award went to a boy from the second-place team who had 11 goals and one assist in the four round-robin games.
Eleven goals and one assist?! Pass the puck, Gretzky!
A basic fact of team sports is that a concern with individual stats interferes with winning.
My wife and I watched High Noon last night. I asked her if someone was trying to shoot me, would she shoot him first, like Grace Kelly did in the movie?
(Oops, I forgot to say Spoiler Alert.)
She assured me that she’d gladly shoot anyone who even looked at me funny — and I believe her.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler says he has entered a rehab clinic to treat an addiction to pain killers he has taken to cope with 10 years of performance injuries.
I hate to say I told you so . . . well, okay, I don’t hate it . . .
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a televised press conference that Obama lied during the United Nations summit in Copenhagen and is making a habit of it after less than a year in office.
“He lies all the time, deceives with demagogic words, with profound cynicism,” Rodriguez told reporters.
“In this summit there was only an imperial, arrogant Obama who doesn’t listen, who imposes positions that even threaten developing countries,” he said.
Cuba joined Venezuela, Bolivia and and Nicaragua in opposing formal U.N. adoption of the deal which they and other developing nations saw as an imposition by powerful nations.
I AM SO ANGRY WITH GEORGE W BUSH ALEINATING FOREIGN LEDERS AND HARMING OUT INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION WITH HIS HIGH-HANDED TACITCIS TAHT I CANT EVEN THYPE
Wait — what? Oh okay, never mind . . .
— Lightning
1. Innovators think there is a better way.
2. Innovators know that without passion there can be no innovation.
3. Innovators embrace change to a fault.
4. Innovators have a strong point of view but know that they are missing something.
5. Innovators know innovation is a team sport.
6. Innovators embrace constraints as opportunities.
7. Innovators celebrate their vulnerability.
8. Innovators openly share their ideas and passions, expecting to be challenged.
9. Innovators know that the best ideas are in the gray areas between silos.
10. Innovators know that a good story can change the world.
As my son and I were driving past South Coast Plaza, we saw a woman holding a cardboard sign that read “UNEMPLOYED AND DESTITUTE. Any Help is Appreciated.”
“She’s got a good vocabulary,” I said to the boy. “Someone should hire her.”
David Brooks declares “we spend too much on health care” (on NPR) then demands “innovation” and “new technologies.” What if they cost money?
There are three things you need to be careful about: drugs, alcohol and girls. Especially girls.
I have so many things I could say to my own son about girls but after preparing my whole speech I realized it all boiled down to two main points:
Let me say a few words about the second point.
Anyone who cares about you will want you to follow your dreams, follow your goals. Any girl who objects to the time you put in to do that because it takes away from the time you spend with her, stay away from her. HUGE red flag.
The first point is explained in this video:
