This week Herb Peterson, creator of the Egg McMuffin, died. This is one of those areas of contemporary culture that I’ve sat on the sidelines for. No, I’ve never eaten an Egg McMuffin and no, I did not know the Muffin Man, who lived on a street in Santa Barbara. But I do know that [...]
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I just had one of those “yeah, I’m a geek” moments where I made a reference to Xeno’s Paradox to describe a situation where something was edging towards — but never quite reaching – completion, and the people I was talking to soft of blinked and stared at me…. “yeah….uhhhh, suuuUre thing, Dan…” I was relieved (ashamed?) [...]
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” It’s a global world.” – Michael Walter
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palisades cliffs bathed orange in winter sunrise through bare tree branches fluttering with plastic bags
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This blog started a year yesterday. Since that time, the earth has returned to roughly the same position relative to the sun, but everything else is completely different… at least for me. During this time, my blog has matured, yea verily, like a fine single malt scotch in an oak sherry cask, soaking in random [...]
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In preparation for my first delivery of a Presentation Skills Program, I’ve devised a handy new methodology that helps dramatically improve one’s communication skills, almost instantaneously. We live in a world of countless management guru books and courses that use acronyms like “A.I.M.” and “A.C.T.,” diagrams of quadrants, pyramids and feedback loops, and anywhere from 2 to 12 [...]
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Just a little bit of geek humour to start the day off right… (props to SMG and YF)
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Thanks to SMG for pointing me to this wonderful song by Khoren Mouradian –the best version ever of Old McDonald Had A Farm. Here’s the original video: (appropos for Benzo’s bumpkin, me thinks)
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This is the kind of thing you’d find only on the Internet…. unless you work with my colleague Jen, in which case, you’d find it in real life: Ambitious and over the top, ye say? Most definitely. But the texture is actually quite lovely and the classic Post-It light yellow color surprisingly warm and inviting at [...]
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