New… Sometimes ‘New’ is a good word… Sometimes it’s scary. ‘New and Improved’ in the grocery store now means “We’ve changed the package and now we can sell you 6oz for the same price we used to give you 8oz”. Call me ‘Captain Obvious’, but the only ‘Improvement’… is how much money the company selling…
DetailsThe Good Ole’ Days Who remembers the days when you used to pull up to a gas pump and a guy would come out ask you “Regular or Unleaded?”? Then he would proceed to pump you gas, check you oil and tires, clean your windows. That my friends was full service. Then somewhere along the…
DetailsAn Old Fashioned Love Song… What can you do in 2 minutes? That’s 1/2 the time of your standard radio hit (excluding American Pie, Freebird, Stairway to Heaven). Do you remember “Jeremiah was a bullfrog… Was a good friend of mine”. One of Three Dog Night’s lessor hits was “Just an Old Fashioned Love Song”. My…
DetailsHate My Peeps… What is you favorite and least favorite Easter candy? I remember getting a large, solid, white chocolate easter bunny (I also remember eating till I was sick). My least favorite is Peeps. Yup… those sugar coated, fluffy marshmallow staples were passed on to my brother and sister whenever they showed up in…
DetailsDo any of you remember Soylent Green? Not the band… the movie. It’s a futuristic thriller staring the late great Charlton Heston. I normally abstain for talking about an end of a movie, but this one is so old and bad, so I thought I would save you two hours of your life. Since the…
DetailsThe Fad Face it People… This internet thing is a fad! In honor of March Madness… There was an upset! Facebook has outpaced Goggle in user visits! It just goes to show the value of relational websites. TechCrunch – Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site There was also another story that said that people are averaging…
DetailsFore… Happy St. Patty’s Day!… Aside from being a national holiday where you drink green beer and speak with a brogue… It also happens to be my Father’s Birthday! He lived a long and fruitful life and passed 4 years ago on tax day. The one thing my Dad loved to do was golf.…
DetailsSell, Sell, Sell… Have you ever woke up and said “Boy I hope I get a lot of sales calls today”? That was a line from Brian Marshall and his presentation “Building a Referral Machine”. Sometimes you don’t even know you ‘re being sold… “But Wait… There’s More… If you act now we’ll double your order……
DetailsYou’re Fired… Have you ever been fired? I’m sure there are dozens of you who have been… Laid Off, Furloughed, Downsized, Rightsized, Repurposed, Outsourced, Reduction in Force (RIF), Involuntary Reduction in Force, Voluntary Reduction in Force, Bum Closed Down, Disengaged, Down Fired, Free Idled, Inactivated, Leisured, Resting, Unapplied, Underemployed, Unengaged, Unexercised, Unoccupied, Unused & Workless……
Details‘300′ – My Epic Battle with Networking Have you ever seen the movie ‘300′? Well I haven’t… well kinda! It’s almost like ‘It’s a Wonderful Lif’e’… but kinda! Let me explain. Back in the 70’s, 80’s and into the 90’s, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was in the public domain. Around Christmas time, it was shown…
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