I was trying to explain Foursquare to someone this morning. The issue on which we got focused was not so much is it a game or is it a social utility (It’s a floor wax! It’s a dessert topping! – if you don’t get that, search Shimmer Floor Wax). The issue we kept discussing was privacy. In fact the discussion expanded into a broader one inclusive of Facebook, Twitter, and most other social media and I had a thought I’d like to share. Continue reading
Tag Archives: life
The Fast
We’ve made it to the end of another week and so a food-related topic for today. Actually, it’s more of a lack of food topic since I want to mention a thought I had about fasting and business.
Tomorrow is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, a day on which every Jew is supposed to refrain from eating and drinking. That obligation is taken so seriously that one is considered to have participated fully in all the prayer services if they complete the fast even if they never set foot in the synagogue. Last month was Ramadan – a month in which Muslims fast from dawn until dusk. There are fasts in almost every major religion and the notion of willingly abstaining from food and drink as penance or for some other reason is yet another thing most religions have in common.
But penance is not what prompted the thought about business (a religion for some as well, I know). Continue reading
Filed under food, Reality checks
Tom Brady’s Day
I sometimes watch the news as I work (no sound) and saw the following roll across the news ticker: “Tom Brady involved in car wreck, gets new contract.” Sounds like he had a busy day, right? But what is kind of funny and disturbing is that one has nothing to do with the other yet some folks might actually read it as if they are connected. I mean, it happens in business all the time right?
I guess I could use this as a jumping off point to talk about people receiving credit for things which don’t warrant the rewards (or, to the headline’s point, new contracts for being involved in wrecks). Instead, I’d rather just have a giggle about the dope who wrote the ticker headline in the first place. He’s clearly sitting in the same office as the over-possessive person that keeps adding apostrophes to everything plural. I won’t bore you (again) with a rant on this – get yourself a copy of Eats, Shoots, & Leaves which rants about it far better than I. However, I will remind us all to remember that spell-checkers don’t give you the ability to forgo careful reading of your work both from a grammatic and semantic point of view. Are you saying what you think you are?
Or maybe you’re thinking if your writing is a car wreck you can get a better contract!
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