February 2008

Nearly Perfect is Better than Perfect

February 28, 2008

The blog hit 7500 visitors yesterday. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you keep checking in!  Seems everyone is looking for perfection nowadays. They want to find the perfect mate, have the perfect house and the perfect life. Good luck with all that. Perfect is exceptionally hard if not impossible to obtain. And sometimes, being [...]

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Worst Impression

February 27, 2008

I hear by issue a travel warning to anyone going to London. Apparently Travelodge is holding auditions…er…interviews that last only three minutes. From caterersearch.com: Budget hotel chain Travelodge is replacing traditional style interviews in favor of three-minute speed interviews as it looks to recruit 30 managers in London. Ruth Saunders, Travelodge resourcing manager, said: “We [...]

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Doomsday Seed

February 26, 2008

I know the title of this post sounds like a bad horror movie, but actually it’s a great use of negative thinking I saw on CNN.com: A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean. [...]

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Media Monday: The Golden Raspberry Awards!

February 25, 2008

7 for 24 on the Oscar picks. Ouch! I still don’t agree on Best Picture, but it happens. Just for balance, here are the winners of this year’s Razzies. Showing off the best of the worst! Worst Picture: I Know Who Killed Me (Sony/Tri-Star) Worst Actor: Eddie Murphy (as Norbit) NORBIT Worst Actress (TIE) : [...]

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Oscar Predictions!

February 22, 2008

Being a big movie goer I just wanted to whet your appetite for the Oscars this Sunday. First, if you’ve got no plans tomorrow, AMC (the movie theater chain, not the channel) will have its annual Best Picture Showcase. My wife and I went last year and it’s a very fun event and quite reasonably [...]

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Take pride in being humble!

February 21, 2008

Humility – [hyoo-mil-i-tee or, often, yoo-]– noun – the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one’s own importance, rank, etc. I put the definition of humility first because from what I can see nowadays no one knows what that word means. We’ve become a society of “look at me!” “I’m [...]

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Reverse Engineering

February 20, 2008

We all want to get ahead. We all have things we want to accomplish. The problem is: How do we get there? Negative thinking can help. (Don’t say it can’t…that’s just being negative!) The big question: Is what you are doing right now going to take you where you want to go? You need to [...]

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Demotivational Monday

February 18, 2008

These always make me chuckle.  www.despair.com Tweet

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Fallback Friday – Stephen Colbert's Fallback Position – Astrophysicist

February 15, 2008

I love watching Stephen Colbert. The other night, he featured negative thinking on his show “The Colbert Report” in a segment called Stephen’s Colbert’s Fallback Position. He’s worried about losing his job and is thinking of what else he can do for work.   The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Neil de Grasse Tyson www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political [...]

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Satellite of Love

February 14, 2008

Dear Readers, Ahh….love is in the air. It’s Valentine’s Day and I’m just going over the checklist of things people are doing to make it a special one. Send Flowers…check! Received candy…check! Attend Valentine’s Day party…check Authorize shooting a satellite out of the air…che..what?! Looks like the US Government isn’t going to wait and let [...]

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