I’m sick of attention whores. They’re noise, and there’s way too much going on of substance to have to spend the time separating their chaff from all the important wheat out there. Unfortunately, we’ve become a culture that rewards these clowns and this week provided yet another perfect case. Continue reading
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MIA
If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day. From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading
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Fish Sticks
Foodie Fun Friday returns! Today’s topic is fish sticks. That’s right – the bane of every Catholic kid’s existence when I was young. Strangely, these happen to be among my favorite foods. There’s usually a box of them in the freezer and dipped in a blend of tartar and hot sauces, they’re often in front of me as I watch some sporting event or other. I was heating up a batch of them the other day when I had an epiphany: what I was doing (reheating frozen fish) is what much of America thinks is cooking. Come to think of it, there’s a business lesson in there as well. Continue reading
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