Archive for June, 2008

The Meaning of Life

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

What is the meaning of life? It gets asked so many times, and few every really try to answer it. For all intents and purposes, it's a rhetorical question that we simply brush aside and move on to whatever it was we were doing. And for a ...

Image #001. Reflections at Bus Stop

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

reflections at a bus stop

The Main Thing

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.Steven Covey So simple... yet so hard to actually do. I kept repeating this to myself while at work today. I was doing some critical experiments for a new production process that I'm trying to get to work. I ...

End the Starbucks Habit: How to Make the Best Cup of Coffee

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Though I'm a coffee nut, I really don't like Starbucks coffee. I never really got into the habit of going to Starbucks (other than for Experiment #1), but I know a lot of people that do. To make my coffee, I ususally just use a Melita ...

The Un-Natural

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

In case you don't have time to view the vid below (which I recommend), This American Life host, Ira Glass, keenly observes that many people engage in a creative outlet and they genuinely have very good taste in that genre. At the outset, it's very frustrating because he wasn't ...

Help! I’m the outsource-ee

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I've been silent lately for two big reasons: I've been devoting time to my other experiments, but more importantly - work has been insane! I'm enamored with the idea of 'The Four Hour Work Week' and I've come to realize that all this talk about 'outsourcing' is beyond my reach ...