Archive for the ‘General Whatnot’ Category

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Success

In: General Whatnot| Opinion

29 Mar 2009

“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.” I really like this. Mr. Wooden also makes a distinction between reputation and character that is such a healthy approach to way we think about ourselves. TED [...]

I find it a little scary and depressing that we need a whole sub-genre of Happy in the area of personal growth. Have people forgotten how?

Change

In: General Whatnot| Opinion

23 Feb 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about change. The concept of it. The doing of it. How change happens.  How to cope when Change comes,  does its thing to your life and takes off again.
Change has occurred in copious amounts at my place of work during the last few weeks, some of it not so [...]

I haven’t posted in a long time but I listened to Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO today and was compelled to share with the 6 people who follow my blog. Trumka is a powerful public speaker and could probably get people charged up about cottage cheese but his message in this speech made cry [...]

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Hankie Time!

In: General Whatnot

8 Jul 2008

Darned Beth R-G posted this video and its so great that I have to post it too. I’m a little annoyed with her for giving me a cry over my morning coffee.
Hey, all you bullies out there! Take THIS:

The GMAC people won their law suit against ScoreTop. They won 2.something million dollars, the list of all the poor schmucks that used the ScoreTop service as a study tool for the GMAT, plus rights to the ScoreTop domain name. Now GMAC is going to cancel the GMAT scores of some of the [...]

Video Jug. This is a collection of how-to videos. It is British. It is fabulous. I am so lost in it. Please help me!
Just in case you are completely inept in the kitchen and really, really love butter:

Believe it or no, I was bored this weekend so I watched television for like 4 whole hours. One of the things I sat through while trying to read was The Andromeda Strain on A&E. The movie was just so-so. I was more taken by the commercials for programs on other channels. I was most [...]


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  • Monk Zymurgy: I have to agree..Sita Sings the Blues is super great. I loved it so much, i watched it twice already [...]
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  • SocProf: Wow... these are 9 minutes of my life I'll never get back! :-) [...]