July 2009

Cultural Change Comes From the Young to the Old

July 31, 2009

Here’s an article that shows how cultural shifts do not trickle down from old to young but from the youth to the older generations. If those pesky kids with their new fangled twitter machines and iphones annoy you, beware…you just might want one too. From CNN: Teenagers exchange text messages while driving because, well, they’re [...]

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Know Who You Are

July 29, 2009

Bret Favre and I both had the same kind of decision to make yesterday: To stay retired or take the field at less than 100%. No, the Minnesota Vikings didn’t call me yesterday. But a speaker’s bureau did. This bureau was looking for a local comedian in Texas to do an IT client’s event and [...]

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Media Monday: Killer Chipmunks!

July 27, 2009

Nothing like a good, nonsensical scare from The Sun: VICIOUS killer chipmunks that escaped from a British park four years ago have never been found – and could now have bred into a horde thousands strong, The Sun can reveal. The news will confirm experts’ worst fears that the disease-ridden rodents, which are plaguing northern [...]

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Making Bombs to Save Lives

July 22, 2009

Whenever I do my negativity keynote or my safety program I always talk about how safety personnel are using negative thinking to find ways to kill you… so you won’t die. This article from CNN is a perfect example of what I mean: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, a bomb maker pieces together an improvised [...]

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The Misery of Positive Thinking

July 9, 2009

I’ve been trying to explain for years that some of the self-help “positive thinking” is both unrealistic and not very help full.  TIME magazine (yes that TIME) published this article that show that telling yourself something you don’t believe in (which is what a lot of the hokey “self-help” bullshistic medicine is…hard to believe) actually [...]

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Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed

July 1, 2009

With all the celebrities dropping like flies, rumors of other celebrities kicking the bucket are running rampant. CNN even had an article on it today: After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars. Despite what you may have read, Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George [...]

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