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How can you make bread out of bananas?Well Felix, this recipe is for you! This recipe has been kicking around the family for years. It is a clipping from some long forgotten newspaper. The newsprint is yellowing under the tape and plastic protecting it on the recipe index card.
Can't even imagine it.
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| Agenda | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30-8:45 | Opening remarks by HDI regional representatives |
| 8:45-9:45 | John Custy -Where ITIL and Knowledge meet |
| 9:45-10:45 | Chip Gliedman - What is this thing called ITIL and what should I do about it? |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Phil Gerbyshak - Make it Great! with the insights of "How to be a Relationship Geek" |
| 12:00-2:00 | Networking lunch / Vendor show |
| 2:00-3:00 | Naomi Karten - Cave Dwellers and Chatter Boxes: Demystifying Introversion and Extroversion |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 | Sam Rizzico - Tech Support Center Optimization |
| 4:15-4:30 | Closing remarks by HDI/door prizes |
The sun is coming up nicely today. There is a crust of ice on the snow. I was walking on top of this crust this morning while down at the high school track "recording studio" I use for my Passionate Runner podcasts. The outdoor setting I think is appropriate for talking about an outdoor activity like running. The occasional breeze or bird chirping in the background adds to the setting. I am glad the sun was out. It was about 18 F with wind chill reported to be in single digits. I was well bundled for the recording and dressed down further when I ran with the Pacers.
Dolores and I took our walk this morning (after I came back from running). We altered our course due to the lack of sidewalks on most roads. We also did not stop for coffeee but came directly home and brewed our own pot.
Advertising isn't working like it did a few years ago. You've noticed this, right?Read the full memo to find out more about "The Faded Color of Empty Words"
Most advertisers are convinced that technology is to blame.
TV advertisers will tell you that TiVo and her sister Digital Video Recorders are blocking their television ads. But according to a recent report released by Leichtman Research Group, only 12 percent of American households own a DVR.
But TV ad results are down far more than 12 percent.
"Reading Pippi Longstocking when I was seven gave me a new lease on life. I felt pretty homely and different, and Pippi was so out there, with her freckles and upside-down braids, one black sock and one brown. She was so feisty and hilarious and powerful. I wanted her to be my best friend, and I also knew that she lived inside me. That was such a great secret--that inside me I was okay if Pippi was. I wanted to grow up and tell stories like hers, about girls who kicked butt."
Some may remember my own identification with Pippi. Redheaded and all, I once stood vigil in Stockholm outside the aging and ailing author's home, Astrid Lundgren.
I think it's abundantly clear--Anne Lamott is stalking me.
I am finally reading "Bird by Bird" and do recognize a great deal of similarity between Patti and Anne. If you have not discovered Patti, please click through to read more of "Claim your inner Pippi".
From the wonderful Christine Kane writing on her blog
The biggest lesson I get from the Neil Young concert is about taking chances, and being alive, and tossing your ideas out in the world. The problem is not so much in the “how you say it” or “what you say” stuff. The problem is the expectation that the response even should be hollering and whooping all the time. If you were always going for the sure thing and the woo-hoo’s, then you’d be the Beach Boys in any city on any night in July.
No one knows what was in Neil Young’s head as he performed that night. But every performer knows the temptation to try and get that screaming intensity on every song. Probably there’s a similar toxic pressure in the marketing world.
Read more of what Christine has to say about the Neal Young video clip that Seth Godin started the conversation on earlier this week.
Enjoy!
What this little experiment has taught me is that the key to being a successful micro-preneur is simply this-- START. I can't tell you how many years I wasted THINKING about starting my own little project. I dreamed. I analyzed. I planned.Read the full post here. Explore AJ's new venture site here.
I suppose these activities had some psychological value-- helping me overcome doubts, fears, and hesitations.. but thats about it. Beyond that, it was just a lot of wasted time and energy.
The key to becoming financially independent is not a super idea, or a genius plan, or the amazing thing that no one else has ever thought of. The key is to simply start something-- anything. Just start and then adapt. That's all it really takes.
Do you remember I wrote about bottled water a couple of weeks ago and why we shouldn’t be buying it?
That got me to thinking. If I want to curb my bottled-water buying, why am I still buying seltzer? I live on the stuff. The seltzer with the lime flavor, the seltzer with the black cherry flavor, the seltzer with the cranberry flavor, and so on.
Then I remembered there are little machines you can buy to make seltzer at home. I went online and did some research. I found the Soda Club, a company that’s been making seltzer makers since 1903.
Read the full post here.
From Grammar Girl who has a blog and accompanying podcast:
I know it's upsetting to find out that your nearest and dearest beliefs are wrong, so this week, I'm going to talk about my own mistaken pet peeve: it bugs me to no end when people use “while” to mean “although,” but no matter how hard I looked I couldn't convince myself that I was right. The horror!
You see, I think “although” means “in spite of the fact that,” as in “Although Sir Fragalot was tall, Squiggly and the aardvark considered him an equal.” “Although” is what's called a concessive conjunction, meaning that it is used to express a concession. On the other hand, I think that “while” should be reserved to mean “at the same time,” as in “While Squiggly gathered wood, aardvark hid the marimbas.”
To find out the last work on 'although' vs. 'while', check out the full posting.
That's all for now folks, enjoy the language and water sandwich!
