What is it with businesses that don’t want your business? This morning I lost a temporary crown. My dentist is out of town on vacation. His office referred me to a dentist who is closed on Fridays. So I search for “dentist in Woodbridge, VA” and find one that is less than ten minutes from [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Thinking category.
Why Your Congressman Can’t Read
An interesting idea in the Washington Examiner: Read the bills? How about reading the Constitution?. “A better idea can be found in a resolution recently introduced by Sen. Jim Bunning, R-KY, requiring all new legislation to be posted online for 72 hours before consideration. That could put the distributed intelligence of the web to work, [...]
Fighting Dirty In Scrabble
Here are some excellent Scrabble strategies:
The Green Pizza Box
It’s not what you’re thinking of: Talk about thinking outside the box.
Don’t Talk to the Police
Don’t talk to the Police is an interesting lecture from Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law about why you should never talk to the police. The talk won’t help you, but could hurt you. Logically, it makes sense. He doesn’t say what you should do when you get pulled over while [...]
700 Billion Wasn’t The End
Did you think the first round of $700 Billion handouts was bad? What’s going to happen when the banks start having problems because of their ridiculous credit card practives? Read The Worst Is Yet To Come: Anonymous Banker Weighs In On The Coming Credit Card Debacle.
Where was I on 9-11?
September 11, 2001 was a gorgeous day, and my final day in the office before a week long vacation. That Tuesday I drove to the metro parking lot like thousands of other commuters, thinking about the event on e-learning to be held in the US Capitol I was scheduled to videotape that afternoon. I was [...]
Re: Elephant Math: It takes some time
Seth Godin points out while discussing viral campaigns “If Darwin’s elephants managed to squeeze in just one more generation, they end up with 30 million.” (Elephant Math) I can think of two examples where someone gave “one more generation” to their product. Brandon Tartikoff gave the show Cheers several seasons to find its following. The [...]
New Game: Hangman with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
OK, here’s the second Harry Potter hangman game. Try playing some hangman with the titles of the chapters in the second book. I’ll release the other 5 books all at once later tonight.
New Game: Hangman with Harry Potter and the Sorcercer’s Stone
So, you think you are a Harry Potter expert? Try playing some hangman with the titles of the chapters in the first book.
