- RT @KathySierra: Each step up the expertise curve, U get a new level of appreciation 4 how tough some “how hard can it be?” things really R #
Sockington the Cat
This cat now has almost half a million followers on Twitter. Including me. What can I say, he’s a funny cat . . .
Microblog: 2009-05-04
- @llangit 2 electrons walking down the street. 1st says “I think I lost an electron” 2nd: “Are you sure?” 1st: “I’m positive” in reply to llangit #
- @llangit I meant “2 *atoms* walking…” in reply to llangit #
- RT @KathySierra: Improving Presos: ditch the opening. All of it. Speaker bio/intro, background, overview… Think: action film, not academic #
- RT @KathySierra: don’t focus on making a better preso, or becoming a better presenter. Focus on making your participants better/smarter #
- RT @TinaFey: Even though it’s almost over, May the 4th be with you! #
IHF All-Star Game 2009
I’m Afraid People Will Laugh at Me
London’s Evening Standard from 1966: “Three girls, one of them named Twyla Tharp, appeared at the Albert Hall last evening and threatened to do the same tonight.” So what? Thirty-seven years later I’m still here.
I was at Borders over the weekend and found the Twyla Tharp book. I wasn’t looking for it. It was on the Software Development shelf. It shouldn’t have been there but it was, so I felt that it was my destiny to buy it and read it.
It was meant to be . . .
I Have Some Fundraising Ideas
My son’s roller hockey team is going to Toronto in July for NARCh. We’re batting around fundraising ideas to help defray the cost of the trip.
How about an old-fashioned kissing booth? Kiss a hockey mom for $10!
Or a pie toss! Throw a pie in the face of a hockey mom for $10!
Better yet — dealer’s choice! Kiss a hockey mom or throw a pie in her face — $10. And we’ll throw in a package deal: A kiss and a pie — in either order! — for only $15!
Surprisingly, only one of the moms thinks this is a good idea . . .
Microblog: 2009-05-03
- RT @USCTrojans_com: Track. USC Sweeps Dual Meet For The First Time Ever http://cli.gs/3sDpya #
- RT @Lileks: Swine flu now goes from person to pig. http://bit.ly/xHgwj Finally, one for our team. In! Your! Snout! #
I Can’t Read The Sign
I’m driving my son to hockey practice . . . at Barranca and Culver, an Asian kid is holding a sign with an arrow and something written in Chinese. Or Korean maybe.
“Wow,” I say, “that is racist. I’m being totally excluded from the activity, whatever it is. If he had a sign saying ‘No Whites Allowed,’ it couldn’t be any more racist.”
“Maybe that’s what it says,” my son suggests.
“Good point.”
Microblog: 2009-05-02
- RT @postsecret: #SaturdaySecrets http://ad.vu/4i4f (ReTweet for 1(800)SUICIDE Fundraiser) #
Do Not Do What Someone Else Could Do
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Microblog: 2009-05-01
- As the President intervenes in more and more industries, a key question is how he does it and what he is trying to achieve http://is.gd/vLUl #
Microblog: 2009-04-30
- Don’t talk about improving efficiency or productivity without defining your unit of measure. #
- Kelly McGillis is GAY?! http://is.gd/vHmp When she was naked in Witness I had an erection lasting more than 4 hrs and had to call my doctor #
Kelly McGillis is GAY?!
‘Top Gun’s’ McGillis ‘done with the man thing’
Wow . . . she’ll make a nice tuna sandwich for some lucky lesbo.
I remember when I saw her naked in Witness. I had an erection lasting more than four hours and had to call my doctor.
He said don’t worry about it, he had the same thing . . .
What I Learned From Today’s Webinar on Productivity
If you’re going to talk to people about increasing productivity or efficiency, you have to specify your unit of measure.
We may differ regarding your selection, but if you don’t define one at all, your words have no meaning . . .
Microblog: 2009-04-29
Now It’s Tomorrow
Phoenix has achieved the unwelcome distinction of becoming the first major American city where home prices have fallen in half since the market peaked in the middle of the decade, according to data released Tuesday.
Money quote from Greg Swann, a Phoenix real estate agent: “We were living during the boom like there was no tomorrow. And guess what? Now it’s tomorrow.”
It’s Not Their Destiny
And there was like a fierce wind that was pushing me, just to do this one thing like nobody had ever done it before. . . . But you know, popular music. It doesn’t attract people who are in it for the right reasons. They’re not called to do it. It’s not their destiny.
We Won’t Get Flued Again
Microblog: 2009-04-26
- At the rink for NARCh qualifier. At midnight? Yes #
The Sad Life of the Goalie Parent
Spring season just started for high school roller hockey. My son’s team has two goalies, one who’s really good and a backup who’s not ready yet to play at this level.
The coach started the backup goalie at this week’s game. He gave up eight goals and the team lost.
His mom was sitting next to my wife during the game. “I wish they’d take him out,” she said. She was almost crying.
I am so glad my son doesn’t play goalie.
Every kid makes mistakes and every kid has bad games but the highs and lows for goalies are too extreme.