September 2007

Failure Friday: Post-it Post

September 28, 2007

Here’s a story about creating something not as good as the creator intended, only to turn out to be the most common thing in offices around the world. From The Discovery Channel: In 1970, Spencer Silver was working at the 3M research labs trying to develop a strong adhesive. What he actually came up with, [...]

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Basic Instinct

September 27, 2007

Negative thinking is ingrained into our DNA. As this and other articles show the origins of why our brains have way of using our negative thoughts for a purpose. Our ancestor’s more basic instincts, basic skills and innate abilities skewed toward the negative to save their lives. Why do deer and squirrels immediately run away [...]

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Workplace Wednesday: Sales

September 26, 2007

Being a salesman is the perfect balance of positive and negative thinking. You must maintain a positive veneer when you talk to customers and when you meet with customers. Nobody wants to write a check to a jerk. So you need to be able to build relationships as well as maintain them. But negative thinking [...]

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Monkey Business

September 25, 2007
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We have let them down. We have abandoned them to devolve into crime and chaos. They steal and attack with a brazenness we have never seen before. They drink our wine and attack our women. They even terrorize innocent children in their own schools!! What has happened to our monkeys? Technically they are apes,but still. [...]

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Media Monday: Whiney happy people

September 24, 2007

This has to be the funniest article I’ve seen in awhile. It sums up in 4 sentences exactly what is wrong with the press. They are petty, whiny, lazy people who felt snubbed enough to publish this useless message on their website. Let’s complain about a snub, by writing about the snub and only the [...]

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Failure Friday: Krazy, Super Failure!

September 21, 2007

Here’s a failure that not only is useful, but has saved lives. Superglue and Krazy glue is really Cyanoacrylate. From Wikipedia: Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses. It did not solve this problem, since it stuck to all [...]

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Smarties

September 20, 2007

I caught a glimpse at the future today. It appears that nine students masterminded a theft of an exam. From Boston.com: One evening after school was out, a group of students entered the school building, authorities say. While some stood sentry in hallways, others entered a classroom and used stolen keys to break into a [...]

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Workplace Wednesday: Real Estate

September 19, 2007

Since real estate, like many businesses, is a cyclical beast, it is important to keep an eye out for upcoming lows. All hot markets cool, so it is important to save during the boom times so you can endure the lows. Real Estate is like craps. If you’ve ever played craps you know sooner or [...]

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Complain in the Neck

September 18, 2007

Here is my newest article that will also be posted as a page:  I am so sick of complainers. Aren’t you? Don’t they just irritate to the very bone? I can’t believe they can just whine and moan about everything without an end in sight. Complainers are such big … oh. Wait a second. Am I [...]

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Media Monday: Ads for subtraction

September 17, 2007
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As far as advertisers are concerned, no place is safe. Look at this. Just what you needed. Ads on you cell. I get irritated when Sprint sends me text messages for no reason. Or the flood of reminders my wife got when she voted for American Idol. Now, with the proper (or improper) settings on [...]

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