How to Put a Stop to Rude Drivers

June 30, 2010

Here’s another “well duh” item from today’s news… An IBM Global Commuter Pain Study reports that Americans are stressed about their commute to work. Those surveyed said the daily routine of stop-and-go traffic and rude drivers negatively affects their health, social lives, and job performance. Sixty-five percent said their commute gave them sleeping trouble and [...]

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Stuff That Keeps Me Up At Night

June 28, 2010

I’m a night owl. When everyone else is asleep, I’ll dig through my closet of DVDs and watch an old black-and-white B-movie thriller. Last night, it was Mr. Moto’s Gamble from 1938. The Moto movies, which starred the great Peter Lorre, were generally spy stories with exotic settings, global intrigue, and jujitsu action. But Gamble’s [...]

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How to REALLY Fight the Recession

June 23, 2010

Spent part of my morning at Borders. There was a large table there filled with books about fighting the recession. Their advice seemed to range from knocking off the lattes, to clipping coupons, to making your own clothes from carpet remnants and paperclips. Hell, those aren’t strategies for fighting the recession. Those are formulas for [...]

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How to Put a “Cherry” on Top of the Apocalypse

June 21, 2010

Thanks to Netflix, I finally caught up with The Book of Eli last night. Whew. If you haven’t heard of it before now, it’s a post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure starring Denzel Washington as Eli and Gary Oldman as, of course, the bad guy. Eli is rough stuff. Lotsa violence and potty language, so put the kiddies [...]

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You Don’t Have to Get BIG… Get Small Instead!

June 18, 2010

If you visit Victoria, British Columbia — as Deb and I did earlier this month — there are two things just about everybody agrees you gotta do. The first one is afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel. Well, we enjoyed afternoon martinis in the Empress Hotel’s Bengal Lounge. Close enough. The second “must do” is [...]

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Corporate Doofuses Give Poor Little Orphan Girl Shabby Treatment After 86 Years of Service

June 16, 2010

Leapin’ lizards! This past weekend, the iconic Little Orphan Annie made her last-ever appearance in the funny pages. Sad but true. After some 86 years, newspaper syndicator Tribune Media Services finally gave the little gal with a blank stare her walking papers. The decision made business sense. Newspapers are dying, and the “Annie” comic strip [...]

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There’re No Mutants in Seattle’s “Underground City,” But There’s a Business Lesson There

June 14, 2010

Just imagine…   A city wiped out by apocalyptic fire.   The survivors rebuild atop its ruins.   For decades, the old city hides quietly beneath the new, no more than an urban legend to modern generations.   Toss in a few mutants and you’ve got James Cameron’s next 3-D sci-fi extravaganza.   But I’m [...]

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Why We Should Dump the Term “Entrepreneur”

June 11, 2010

I’m really loving Rework, the new business manifesto by Jason Fried and David Hansson, the founders of 37signals. I’ve already read the book twice. Even took it along on our vacation. In one of its umpteen mini-essays, the authors suggest retiring the term entrepreneur. After all, it’s outdated and smells like a members-only club. “Everyone [...]

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Straddling the Fringe is No Fun

June 4, 2010

I’ve finally cleaned the older stuff off the DVR and caught up with this spring’s season finales of my favorite TV shows. The best of the bunch was Fringe. If you haven’t seen it before, Fringe does kinda what X-Files used to do, but without Mulder and Scully. There’s a twist, though. On Fringe, all [...]

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“Clutter” is Wayne’s Anchor to Success

June 1, 2010

Yesterday was Memorial Day. What did it mean to you? Was it a nice day off from work? A day for a picnic? A day to curse heightened freeway traffic? Or was it a reminder of those Americans who’ve died in military service? That was the original purpose of Memorial Day, you know — to [...]

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