Category: Posts
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How to NOT Make a New Contact
Hey “world’s fastest-growing business network” that I had never heard of before! If you are going to send some email to someone who you want to join into your network, I have two pieces of advice for you: Don’t send it to an account that doesn’t exist, so that the only way a person can…
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Google Music Finished
After about a week and a half (maybe even two weeks, I’m not really sure), Google Music has finally finished importing my iTunes collection. According to Music Manager, 5,649 songs were added and 25,540 songs were skipped. According to the Music Player on the website, 8647 songs were added. I wish I could have had…
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Stephen Won’t Watch ‘Gremlins’
My son Stephen and I were watching TV when a commercial for a showing of the movie Gremlins came on. I was a little excited because I thought he might want to watch a movie that I remember liking when I was younger, but at the same time I thought it might be a little…
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A Particular Set of Skills
I was walking around minding my own business when I got a phone call. Me: Hello? Him: Hello. Is this Derek? Me: Yes. Him: Hello, Derek. My name is (something I couldn’t hear properly) and I’m calling from (again something unintelligible) Insurance Company. My manager and I found your resume online and we think your…
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The Reason Behind The Union Busting?
Has it occurred to anybody that the reason the Conservative governors are trying so hard to bust the public unions is because they cannot outsource those jobs overseas, like private corporations have done to weaken the private unions? When the unions are busted, the Democratic Party will then get rid of all pretense of caring…
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My rules for creating
Recently I mentioned my rules for creating on Twitter. I have them written in a notebook, but I don’t think I have ever stated them on a podcast or put them in a blog post. Remember that these rules apply to me and don’t reflect how I see what other people do. Don’t overthink a…
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Not All Good Ideas Are Transferable
One of the oddest, but strangely brilliant, blog ideas I have seen in a long time was the ‘Garfield Minus Garfield’ site where someone took the original Garfield comic strips but removed Garfield. According to the website it is “…a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the…
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A Pretty Sad Sight
I stopped following baseball when they went to interleague play. I am one of those old school guys who thinks the only two times the American and National Leagues should meet are during the All-Star Game and The World Series. To me, any other meetings are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. To the…
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Lesson Learned
OK, I admit it. I cannot run Filezilla, GIMP 2, iTunes, GOM Player, Chrome (with two tabs open), Firefox (with five tabs open), Task Manager and Notepad++ all at the same time and still expect for my laptop to not move slower than a kid going to clean his room. I’ll close some things.
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Random Picture of Chaat
I think this looks really good, even though I am allergic to peas. If I could eat things like this (even though they contain tomato, bean, peas and corn), I would consider eating more vegetarian meals. I wonder if there are any vegetarian/vegan restaurants near me.