Thanks Errric ferrr rrremindin’ me that tharrrtoday be Tal kie Like a Pirrrate Day! and fer pointin out dis handy tool
Aye, matey, don know how much Piratey tal kin I be doin, bein as busy as a Frenchman at a surrender party, but we’ll see.
Oh yeah…
Tony my Fantasy Football team is undefeated (2-0) babee! Continue reading
Iron Sharpening…
A challenge to my ever-increasing blaaawg-family. Or family of blogs.
Garrick, has posted a number of topics at his blog Ministry Matters, and always leaves a time for ‘Your turn’ at the end of each thoughful post. I’d like to challenge my readers, and fellow bloggers to take the time to seriously reply to the questions he asks.
First, I’d like to also encourage Garrick in stepping out and blogging while also being a very busy minister in our church. His presence has challenged me, in a good way, to think a little deeper, and become more involved. I’d also like to congratulate his willingness to intentionally solicit feedback, it is tough to communicate effectively online, and tougher still to seek other points of view.
His latest post, An Audience of One, makes some provacative points, and one that might engage in a bit of ‘push-back’ from me, at some points. First I want to address his quesiton:
How do you deal with crticism[sic] from other people, especially those who seem to have plenty of things to improve themselves? What can you do to be more of an encourager to those around you this week?
The answer and more below the fold. Continue reading
Email Wisdom
Bumper Sticker Fodder…
(thank to me real father…)
- SAVE THE WHALES. COLLECT THE WHOLE SET.
- A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE IS LIKE… NIGHT.
- ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT FINGERS.
- I JUST GOT LOST IN THOUGHT. IT WAS UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY.
- 42.7% OF ALL STATISTICS ARE MADE UP ON THE SPOT.
Clean, Party, Party, Sleep
That was my Saturday.
Clean the house, while Ang ate bon-bons had girls night out worked her butt off at the consignment fair, then deliver Brenna to her friend’s party.
After I picked her up, it was time to get ready to host HER (Brenna’s) birthday party. Okay, so Ang did more of the actual partying, but only because I don’t do the glam-o-ram like her and her bestestest friend Nat does (thanks Nat for coming over and bothering me helping Ang out, your help got us over the hump.
Then the gels settled down to watch Aquamarine (think Little Mermaid in a Disney Channel High School Musical mode – without all the singing, ‘natch), I dozed in the armchair.
Sunday was more like this: Sunday School, Babysit, Meeting, Birthday, Meeting, Meeting, Party.
Survivor: My Friend Flicka lost my Chickas
This year on Survivor, we play the race card, and set up teams based on race. Nothing to see here, This is not the controversy you’re looking for.
The Asians (Puka), the Latinos (Aitu), the African-Americans (Hiki) and the Caucasians (Raro)
Puka (asians) have three dudes and two chicks, and one of the dudes is an older Vietnamese refugee.
All the rest have three chicks and two dudes… Wonder if that’ll be a factor… nah.. nebber mine.
Blasphemy!
I installed Windows Vista RC1 on my laptop. (Don’t worrrrrry, Ubuntu Edgy Eft is still on there… urm… somewhere… )
By Jove, it works pretty good.
Wanted: Venture Capitalist
From this mornings IM:
Matt : but what is our business idea?
Jon : make millions.. duh!
Matt : well, okay, if you want to set your sights that low
We are now accepting VC recommendations/applications.
Act quickly, with a business plan like that, I expect the phone to start ringing…
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Now.
Perfect Harmony
UPDATE:Â Never forget
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(hat-tip: this old thing )
Synchronicity
Another topic drilled into me this month is the 90-20-8 (URI) rule.
This states that Adults can:
- Listen with Understanding for 90 minutes
- Listen with Retention for 20 minutes
- Desire Involvement every 8 minutes
That last bullet, I have a hard time remembering how it is stated. But the rules are common in lots of different places, the timing of recess at school, movies are generally ~90 minutes, if longer the audience grows restless (kids movies are always around 90 minutes). Television shows rarely go more than 20 minutes without a commercial, probably if we put a timer on it, a scene in television will rarely go past 8 minutes.
So this is becoming a mantra, especially when planning for a class, or a training ‘event’ (eLearning, Webinar, etc). Then I’m reading around today, and find this article at 43Folders.
Which talks about the need for a 20 minute break around every 90 minutes to help ‘balance the ultradians’ or some such. It quote this guy as saying basically, ‘Heed the 90 minute rule or risk getting sick.’  I’m not going all crystal-newagey on y’all, but there might be some substance to that. I know that the 90-20-8 rule works in the classroom. May as well try to link it to my work habits. Who knows I may become productive.