Tired of spam? Quit using email!
Darren Lennard became something of a creative-class everyman a month ago when, after a long and onerous day at the office, he plucked his hyperactive BlackBerry from his silk-lined pocket and proceeded to smash it on the gleaming granite countertop of his London home. What makes Lennard’s e-mail outburst unique is that it was embraced by his superiors.
Ever consider the glamourous life of an overpaid independent consultant? Being a free agent and setting your own hours while raking in the dough sounds fun right? Let’s see…one client over due on an $800 bill, another client over due on $1600, others, I’m behind on a project that I underbid and overworked so I can’t bill it yet and my network just died, the mortgage is due Sunday, cable, phone and electric are due, the kids are making Christmas lists and funny thing is they want to eat.
Working for yourself…the stress-free way to retire early! Oh, and I almost forgot the best part: everyone you know wonders what you do and assumes that you are goofing off all the time.
Apparently my connectivity issues have been to a failing network hub. Its uplink port will not maintain a connection with the router. Deterred? No. I’ll just make a crossover cable and use an available port.
Tim turned me onto this article by Mike Bellah that actually says mess is ok (sloppiness and laziness is not).
Whether it’s fruitful fields or fruitful people, success doesn’t come without a degree of messiness.
The mess we have is our lifes. It is how we live and although I would like to see the mess reduced, we have a messy manger for a reason.
…lives that are always clean and tidy may have the appearance of success, but, in reality, they are empty, lonely places.
Mike Bellah’s article has its roots in Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the manger is clean. But much increase comes by the strength of the ox.
Student: What do you do when the hopelessness is too great?
Master: Disappoint someone.
Now that’s funny! I posted the church sign and the Amazon ad in the left column changed to a book called "God’s Blogs
So if you want to catch all of Lost you’d better get yourself a nice cell phone with Verizon and an Apple video iPod!
The deal is a fresh example of the broadcast networks’ rush to embrace portable media — but this time with original content. Disney might have triggered the trend with its groundbreaking deal to make episodes of “Lost” and other Disney programming available on the new video iPod.
I’ll have to wait until the "Lost Video Diaries" come out another way because you couldn’t get me to use a Verizon phone if you sewed it my hand. As for the details of the Lost Video Diaries, "the series will introduce two characters said to be stranded alongside the cast featured on the primetime version." which is a terribly cool concept!
New Scientist explains that "Meditation builds up the brain." I’m going to have to think on that one.
I miss having an Administrative Assistant! Alright. Time to do the dumb things ya gotta do.
Interesting read for those that like to see where all the numbers showup. This was my favorite albeit a little reaching:
Assign each letter of the alphabet a number so that 1 is A, 2 is B, etc. up to 26 for Z. Then wrap back to the beginning so that 27 is A again, 28 is B, 29 is C, and so on.
4: The 4th letter in the alphabet is D
8: The 8th letter in the alphabet is H
15: If you add 4 + 8 + 15, you get 27 which wraps back to A.
16: 4 + 8 + 15 = 27, and 4 + 8 + 15 + 16 = 43. 27 + 43 = 70 which gives you a R.
23: 16 + 23 = 39, which is M.
42: 4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 = 66, and 23 + 42 = 65. 65 + 66 = 131 which is an A.
