If you want to start a new company, look at what services are not being handled now, either at all or effectively. They could be new services, or services currently being offered by a company that is not engaged with its customers. You don’t have to be a techie to start your own company. How [...]
Archive for August, 2008
I-Phone-A-holic, I-Am, I-Am
Posted in August 8th, 2008
I got a new 3G I-Phone the other day. Wowzer. I don’t even know where to start. Maybe with the GPS feature, it not only gives you directions to and from where you are, but with WHERE TO? from the App Store ($2.99), it finds restaurants, theaters, etc for you, no matter your current location. [...]
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Weight Loss Program for JobSeekers
Posted in August 8th, 2008
by admin in Job Seeker Advice
This is not an ad for Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. Well meaning counselors will often ask heavy people to visualize carrying around a bowling ball (5 pounds) or a five-gallon water jug (40 lbs), thinking this mental image provides some mental motivation. The image works since we all can visualize the difficulty in carrying [...]
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I work for myself. I’m what ya call an “entramanure.”
Posted in August 5th, 2008
I have a friend who is Mr. Malaprop. The other day he told me that his boss was “no rocketship.” (rocket scientist) The King of Malaprops had to be Archie Bunker of All in the Family, a popular TV sitcom in the 1970′s. I think malaprops and mondegrens are the just about the funniest form [...]
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10 Questions About Boys My Daughter Forgot to Ask.
Posted in August 1st, 2008
It is a standing joke that I lied to my daughter constantly as she was growing up, like my appendix scar was where the VietCong stabbed me in the side, and I didn’t make the Yankees because Mickey Mantle said my name “Geee-EL” sounded too Mexican for a white guy. As she goes off to [...]
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On Attorneys, Good and Bad, and 74-Year-Old Clients
Posted in August 1st, 2008
The contrary paralegal manages a two-office law firm in the southwest, as well as her young family, which consists of ‘the man’ and her three ‘dramas’ whose names are 17 (or VT = vile teenager), 11 and 8. For 15 years she has worked in almost every area of the law – seen everything, mentored [...]
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‘Is This Heaven?’ “No, It’s Iowa.”
Posted in August 1st, 2008
That’s the classic exchange between Kevin Costner and his baseball-playing, father-ghost in Field of Dreams. First time I saw the movie happened to be in Ames, Iowa, and the line drew whooops and hollers. It should even be on the Iowa license plate. Commonly thought of the best baseball movie ever, the movie did pass [...]
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