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Archive for August, 2008
Problem with Company Leaders
Aug 30th
“strong charasmatic leaders can all to easily become the de facto reailty driving a company… people worried more about the leader, what he would say, what he would think, what he would do than they worried about external reality and what it could do to the company “
- Jim Collins “Good to Great”
McCain-Palin Anagrams
Aug 29th
I love anagrams.
I had to check the McCain-Palin ticket to see what exactly could be derived from names… the results:
McCain-Palin = Panic in Calm
on the other hand:
Obama-Biden = Bob Idea Man
Did Phelps really win?
Aug 23rd
I was stoked to watch Phelps win the 100m butterfly.
Today, Yahoo reports ‘Photo’s prove Phelps won 100-meter butterfly’.
I thought that was old news? Was there really a controversy?
I reviewed my DVR a few times at the different angles shown on TV. I knew it was futile. At best I was recording it at 29.97 frames per second. Far too slow to catch an ‘out-touch’ of .01 second, in reality maybe it was closer than the .01, They don’t measure thousandths of seconds, it could have been .001, we’ll never know. Even my new HD Sony HDR-CX7 will only record up to 60 fps. Maybe next time Phelps can try to win in a little over .03 seconds so we can actually watch the ‘out touch’.
Brett Favre is a New York Jet
Aug 7th
Brett the Jet
The Jet’s are always mentioned in the rumors of any big free agent or trade possibility. I got a call waking me just after 1:00am.
“Are you watching ESPN?” the voice said.
“Did we get him?” I replied.
The deal was done, Favre for a conditional draft pick. A 4th round pick right now, up to a 1st round pick if the Jets make the Super Bowl.
This brings back memories of players like Ronnie Lott & Art Monk coming to the Jets in the 90′s. Hall of Fame, game changing stars, reduced to role players.
I believe Favre can still play at a very high level. I never thought he would retire after the loss to the Giants. He’s far to competitive to end his career on an interception.
Ronnie Lott
Art Monk
Favre put the Packers in a difficult situation, they have their new franchise quarterback right where they want him. No, not Aaron Rodgers, Brian Brohm. Aaron Rodgers will ‘take one for the team’. Packers fans will never accept him, especially now. After his first interception the fans will be calling for Brohm to replace him.
The Atlanta/Louisville connection.
16 years ago, the Jets had Favre #1 on their draft board. They had no first round pick, and held the 34th overall pick. Unfortunately the 33rd pick would snag Favre. The Jets would take Browning Nagle from Louisville. Nagle was known to throw the ball deep and hard. Unfortunately he would throw the ball short and hard as well. (He was actually drafted into pro baseball as a pitcher years before) Nagles career would take him through Atlanta, the same team that stole Louisville’s (Brohm’s) coach last year, the team that originally drafted Favre. Now Brohm will be Favres replacement in Green Bay and the Jets get the guy they wanted all along, since 1991.
ESPN – Favre era ends in Green Bay with trade to Jets – NFL.
Take 6 For those of you who still don’t know.
Aug 4th
I’m amazed at how often I mention Take 6 and people have no idea who I’m talking about. As of this performance they had recorded 10 albums and won 10 grammy’s.
I was blessed to be able to see them in concert when they were in San Antonio, they did a version of what you see here and it alone is worth the price of admission. It really is a site & sound to behold:
I hope you appreciate it as much as I do!
Reverse Dictionary
Aug 4th
What's that word?
I must admit, I check Dictionary.com quite often. To check the spelling of a word, even to verify the meaning of a word. I’m sure a few emails I’ve written have sent the readers to Dictionary.com themselves, just to figure out what the word meant. I came across an interesting link today from their Blog at Dictionary.com, it was for a Reverse Dictionary. You type in the meaning your looking for, and it gives you a word or option of words that it could be. I always that a thesaurus was good for this.
I’ve tried a few ‘meanings’ myself and it was kind of interesting. It’s quite obvious that it doesn’t have the understanding of say a Google Search. It’s probably only worthy of say 2 stars out of 5, but I think they are on an interesting path, who knows they may end up with a Wiki or something.