You’ve seen them, you’ve lusted over them, and now Amazon has a few in stock
Ah…I give up. Just head over there and read some of the reviews of this amazing product.
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I meant to write this post a couple of days ago, but lost track of time when I got distracted trying to find a way to visit links posted in Yammer through their new Outlook plugin. </sarcasm>
Right off the bat, let me say I’m pretty fond of Yammer so far. It’s a very convenient communication tool for work, and the more people use it the more powerful it becomes. So I was pretty excited when they announced a plugin for Outlook (which I’m not a huge fan of). My initial thinking was that the plugin would remind people who were about to send an email that they could just as easily send out a Yam, increasing the use of Yammer and making it more powerful in our organizataion.
The problem is we use Yammer for sharing links a lot at work, both internally and externally. With the Outlook plugin, you can’t click (or even copy) links. MAJOR FAIL!
Hopefully they’ll get this issue resolved in the next release. It seems like a pretty important feature to me.
Everytime someone from Google speaks, we need to listen carefully. Eric Schmidt’s latest comments reported by TechCrunch include this little gem. He was asked to look 10 years out, and what the future Google looks like. He answers that Google will determine the best, most authoritative site for a given question, read it, and summarize it back to the Google user as “the answer”
Yeah, that’s a scary proposition, but also a stupid one. Really…how often is there just one answer? And isn’t this (sort of) what Wikipedia does already. What Schmidt is completely missing is that the web is becoming more and more about conversations, not facts. Even when I want an answer to a technical question, I’d rather read it in the form of a tutorial example as opposed to the manual.
Tutorials are to manuals what historical novels are to textbooks.
Besides, it seems like facts are becoming less and less relevant…at least to the web.
May as well give my post about how to draw flies some Google juice while I’m at it.
I’m definitely a Southern guy. I don’t need a stupid Facebook quiz to tell me this. It’s just something I know. Want proof? Try saying I’m not. Say it to my face! 🙂 However, according to this guide to winning over Southern girls, I don’t know much about how to woo women.
That explains how I ended up with the low-maintenance, easy-going, unpretentious, jaw-droppingly-beautiful girl I did instead of Scarlett O’Hara. Who wants a girl that wears curtains?
Still, I think I did pretty well for myself when I was fishing out of the Southern Pond, despite the fact that I frequently broke many of Bickers’ rules. You can click over to read the 15 things she recommends, but here’s a quick run-down on how I score with each of them.
- I actually do this one
- I agree with this as well…so far, so good
- I’m not getting up just to do that
- Yeah, but I do this for everyone, not just girls
- I pay people to do this one…does that count?
- Do rugby boots count? If not, it was over before it even started
- At the table, yes. Inside, not always
- I can do that
- I don’t chase girls. Even when I was single, I didn’t chase them. Ok, I didn’t make it obvious that I was chasing them.
- No way! I gotta eat!
- C’mon! Do you think your life is some sort of fairly tale? Really?
- I’ll buy dinner…no problem. But if we go for coffee after, you should at least offer to pay for it. (Of course, I wouldn’t let you).
- Some guys can pull this one off, some can’t. It’s worth not making the effort to see which kind of guy you are.
- Never? Never? That’s not really fair to ask of us.
- Twist my arm–I promise to do my best to get you drunk, just don’t make me listen to the novel about your day.
For the people in TN and GA. Johnny Cash was born to modulate.
Timely.
I heard WSB Atlanta’s Jamie Dupree, a bona fide member of the media, talking about getting the Heisman from the White House and found an account of it on his blog:
I emailed Deputy White House Press Secretary Reid Cherlin, who was quoted extensively in a story in Saturday’s New York Times, and asked if I could get the information emailed to me.
“Where are you seeing that I distributed “talking points”?” Cherlin replied somewhat huffily to me by email.
He then went on to say that “having never worked with you or heard from you before, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I didn’t send anything to you.”
Hmmm.
I guess I hit a nerve by having the nerve to ask for information from the White House Press Office.
At least he didn’t give me a Serena Williams reply.
My buddy Doug is the fight director for a local organization with an MMA fight card coming up next Friday. Local MMA fans who would like to see more events in East Tennessee should check it out!
Doug worked really hard to bring legitimate MMA fighting to Tennessee. I’ve seen him in many bouts myself, though none of them sanctioned, and participated along side him in a few Battle Royals.
From TechCrunch:
But don’t assume someone is a jerk just because they won’t paint your house for free. Or read your business plan.
On behalf of bitter old men everywhere, I’d like to thank Michael Jordan for participating in the 2009 NBA Hall Of Fame speechin‘.
When Jordan should’ve thanked the Bulls’ ex-GM, Jerry Krause, for surrounding him with championship coaches and talent, he ridiculed him. It was me, Jordan was saying. Not him. “The organization didn’t play with the flu in Utah,” Jordan grumbled.
Club sports will one day reign supreme.
Never Forget
There’s no way this is real. No way.
If it is, Clay Davis is smiling somewhere in Baltimore.
Seriously, this can’t be real can it?
If you haven’t checked out Livestrong, it’s the best site I’ve seen so far for tracking everything. They even have sports (like rugby) listed so that you can just pop in the amount of time you spent playing it will throw it into your calorie track. Lots of foods are already logged there, so just type in what you ate and it will more than likely show up. It also lets you group together common meals you eat and recommends healthier food choices.
There’s an active community there, and they also have really cool programs called “Dares” set up that allow you to join in and participate.
Success is much easier when you are quantifying everything. They have Facebook integration and an iPhone app, and I hope there’s an Android app coming out soon.
Other cool features–a water tracker in the sidebar that lets you hit a button and claim hydration. It’s actually a great motivator to drink more water.
Jennifer is a friend from way back and is homeschooling her kids for the first time this year. Lots of good advice over there, including this:
It doesn’t matter if my child is ahead, behind, or right on target, I have to ask “who’s target?” They get there when they are ready. My job is to meet them exactly where their knowledge stops and their curiosity begins. I have to make sure they are not bored nor overwhelmed.
Smart move–it seems like one key to successful homeschooling is to identify your child’s preferred learning style and adapt your teaching methods to it instead of the other way around.