October 2007

Workplace Wednesday: Architect

October 31, 2007

Designing homes isn’t as easy as Mike Brady made it look ever week. It’s not just sketching out floor plans and calling it a day. A lot of negative thinking is involved for it to work. First you need to know the lay of the land. What will the landscape support, what it can’t support? [...]

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Stupid is as stupid does

October 30, 2007

Making mistakes is a part of life. Learning from them is what’s important. Some people do and some don’t. For example: Word of the rattlesnake bite panicked Hunter’s neighbors at the Midpoint Place I condominiums more than his friends, who say the “Cobraman” has suffered vicious bites in the past and survived to tell about [...]

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How sweep it is!

October 29, 2007

As a life long member of Red Sox Nation I’d like to say thank you to the 2007 Red Sox. 2 championships in 4 years might make us spoiled but the Patriots showed that we can handle it. Tweet

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Failure Friday: Safety Glass

October 26, 2007

Sometimes we make simple mistakes. We forget something or overlook a step in a process. It happens. Sometimes it leads to trouble. Other times… From Idea Finder: The year was 1903. Benedictus climbed a ladder to fetch reagents from a shelf and inadvertently knocked a glass flask to the floor. He heard the glass shatter, [...]

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Misogynistic monkeys!

October 25, 2007

I’m sorry. I don’t want to report about the monkey menace every day. This is the 2nd posting about monkeys this week alone. I wish they would behave and mind their manners. But things are taking an ugly turn in Kenya. From the London Daily Telegraph: Gichuki Kabukuru, a spokesman for Kenya Wildlife Service, said [...]

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Workplace Wednesday: Mechanic

October 24, 2007

My brakes need fixing. I think the calipers are messed up, but then again I don’t know a carburetor from an air filter. So I need to get the car into the shop for some preventative maintenance. That reminded me how negative thinking can be useful in the shop. Thinking about something that could go [...]

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FREAK OUT!!!

October 23, 2007

Maybe I’ll cut Oprah a little more slack. I ran across this article on CNN.com that republished an article by Martha Beck at Oprah.com (does she have to be on every cover?): Levine noted that people who have physical emergency reactions often cope better with crisis, and show fewer symptoms of trauma afterward, than people who [...]

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Media Monday: Murderous Monkeys

October 22, 2007

In a bold and brazen attack, a gang of Rhesus macaques assassinated New Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa. As this article at MSNBC (ed. note original source: Washington Post – updated 1/7/08) clearly shows, the monkeys have stepped up the hostilities towards Man.  The real problem is that humans are training langurs – a larger [...]

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Failure Friday: Cellophane

October 19, 2007

Good idea…bad execution. This is the story of cellophane. From Wikipedia.org: Cellophane was invented in 1908 by Jacques E. Brandenberger, a Swiss textiles engineer. After witnessing a wine spill on a restaurant tablecloth, Brandenberger initially had the idea to develop a clear coating for cloth to make it waterproof. He experimented, and came up with [...]

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Rumor Has It…

October 18, 2007

Rumors can really cause havoc in a company. Thankfully, negative thinking can help! I became a negative thinking thanks to my dad. He’s not a negative type person, but he would just say some of the weirdest things. His favorite was “I AM NOT YELLING!!” which of course he was. Another one was “I am [...]

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