Let the mocking begin. The Boston Red Sox have purchased the proud English franchise. And to commemorate the occasion, a T-Shirt company has already suggested a new uniform look and feel – “The Fenway Edition.”
Category: Personal (Page 19 of 47)
I have a confession for my few loyal readers who I’ve been neglecting lately. In the spirit of true transparency, I have an admission…….. I have been cheating on you with another blog.
Yes, it’s true.
I did a little test last month. In addition to the places I write for professional purposes, I developed a side project as a psychological experiment. There were a number of reasons for the exercise, but one of them included measuring how much content I could produce, if I was doing so in true anonymity. And the answer is that I created quite a lot. More than 50 posts in fact.
There was something freeing about writing without anyone knowing who I was, on one of the simple 33 million blogs out there that will never be found. Now that content has been hidden away, and I’ll roll it over to a new url, just to make sure I can control who sees it.
But, I learned a few things that will make this blog better. 1) Writing quick posts about everyday life is probably a good goal. 2) There’s really no way to write interesting material without at least sharing a little personal feeling and insight. Sure, there are some ugly people out there who you don’t necessarily want to see inside your life. But, you might as well just be transparent and honest online as offline, and just let people make their own decisions. And there’s kind of no way to avoid it, so you might as well ignore them and say what you want. 3) It’s time for a whole new look and feel to this property.
So, I’ll make a commitment to content. Starting 7 days from today (So starting Thursday 10/21), I’ll write one post per week for a week. If I see 25% growth in traffic that week over the previous one, I’ll keep it up. If I don’t, I’ll scale back to 3x per week. We’ll see what kind of community develops.
Are these jerseys the new 2011 Sounders kits? David Falk, from the Seattle Examiner, has reports that they are. Read his article here for the full story. Otherwise, what do you think? Fact or Fallacy? Cool or meh?
Arizona is coming off one of its biggest wins in recent seasons, 34-27 against No. 9 Iowa.
The Wildcats were ranked for a few weeks last season, but before that it had been since 2000 that they last made the Top 25.
The last time they were ranked this highly in the regular season was 1998. Arizona finished that season No. 4 in the nation and was in the top 10 for the final six weeks of the season.
“Those are character-building drives,” UA coach Mike Stoops said late Saturday night. “Those are perception drives. Those are program drives.”
Bug Wright caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from Nick Foles with 3 minutes 57 seconds remaining to give No. 24 UA a wild victory.
The Foles-to-Wright connection capped a 9-play, 72-yard drive and put an exclamation point on a game that included a blocked punt, a blocked extra-point attempt, a 100-yard kickoff return and two interceptions returned for touchdowns.
(Reposted from the Social3i Consulting blog.)
I’m not necessarily a gadget guy. I like the toys, but I’m generally towards the tail end of the early adopters. For me to spend a lot of money on something, it needs to be good enough to justify replacing the time and energy I’ve already invested on something else.
I usually get pushed over the edge when I see that someone I respect has adopted the technology into their everyday life. So a few weeks ago, after I watched one of our clients taking notes on his slick little tablet, I went forth and joined the iPad nation.
Here are some notes now that I’m two weeks in:
- Super solid notetaking device. Easier and less intrusive than a laptop. Easy to share notes with everyone in the room.
- Love Keynote. Easy to make presentations on the fly. In fact, I was even able to build a quick soccer field in order to diagram some plays and show my youth team the starting lineup and subs.
- Love Flipbook. Super cool app for turning my Twitter and Facebook feeds into a mini-magazine.
- Haven’t downloaded spreadsheet apps yet. This is a glaring hole so far, as I’d love to quickly run numbers.
- Netflix is fantastic. It’s the easiest way I’ve ever seen for me to just quickly turn on a device and catch up on whatever series I happen to be watching all the way thru.
- Also, when I’m at my desk I find myself just using it for monitoring email and Pandora, so I don’t have to bother with having it open on my desktop.
I haven’t really gotten into games or anything yet. Also, I can’t say I use the browser or email any differently that I’d use my iPhone, so that’s not a real differentiator. And I’m just starting to get into the speech recognition stuff, but I haven’t really nailed that yet.
Overall, it feels like there’s a decent learning curve between making the device a really cool photo album and a fully functional work device. More to come.
It’s this guy to the right. David Silverman, Vice President and Communications Director of the American Atheists.
Now, he’s not a jackass for being Atheist. I support atheism. I mean it’s really a silly thing to argue about here on earth. One day we’ll either die and find out atheists are wrong, or we’ll die and won’t be doing anything at all, so what’s the purpose of arguing about it. To me, it’s the same as if Muslims want to fast during Ramadan. It doesn’t bother me, so why would we argue about it.
But this where Silverman steps into new territory.
You see, there’s a stretch of highway in Utah. And the good people who live in Utah decided they should remember state patrol officers who died in the line of duty by placing white crosses on the highway. This seems like a nice thing to do, no?
Well apparently folks like Silverman are so insulted by this affront to atheists, that since 2005 — YES 2005 — he’s been going to court to stop this.
Here’s a guy with apparently so little to do, that he’s going to go out of his way to stop a tribute to honorable people who lost their lives doing an honorable job, just because the memorials are in the shape of a cross.
Now, if the Utah wanted to call the stretch of road, “Highway to Heaven” or “Ascension Blvd” I might follow the Separation of Church and State argument. Same if before every Jazz game fans had to recite a pledge to God and remember the 14 dead. Along those lines if all fast food restaurants in Seattle were closed during daylight hours during Ramadan, or if no one could serve meat of Fridays during Lent, I’d throw a fit.
But really, do we need to protest crosses memorializing fallen officers, especially in a state based on religion? I say no. And I think it warrants Silverman and his cronies for some sort of jacka$$ award. So if that gets me kicked out of atheist heaven, so be it.
I mean, do you have something better?
You may have seen parts of this saga, but just in case you didn’t follow it all the way through.
So FIRST, watch the new Huntsville Alabama clip that got the whole thing started…
Chilling, no?.
THEN watch what a few clever kids did to it..
It doesn’t end there..
The Huntsville TV crew goes to work, and does a follow up story..
And you know what’s coming, right. .
Antoine Dodson is basically now the new Old Spice Man…With an Ed Hardy T-Shirt no less…Go see http://www.antoine-dodson.com/. A lesson to Snookie and anyone else negotiating for reality TV duckets – characters are everywhere.
Xav and I are looking forward to teaching the workshop on Social Media Monday at the School of Visual Concepts. If you are attending and want to cheat, here’s a list of some of the pages we’ll be talking about.
See everyone tomorrow.
Think you are being efficient with your home? Check out this 344′ apartment in Hong Kong. (content sourced from the social3i.com blog.