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May 30, 2025 – Fun Fridays
In the last month or so, our Friday adventures has taken us from the sublime of a choir singing “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” to the Museum of Failure and now to a feat of … I have no words. How about:
Flawless Hambone.
When I slap myself silly, it is usually for a bonehead decision. And it certainly doesn’t look like this!
Enjoy something you weren’t expecting today.
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I was in the middle of an important call on my office phone when my cell phone sang its little melody. SCHEDULING DEPT I hadn’t scheduled any appointments, so I let it go. The phone summoned me again less than a minute later. SCHEDULING DEPT Goodness! This must be urgent. I hung up on the other person with a promise to call back. SCHEDULING DEPT turned out to be a salesperson calling from a home improvement company. We employed the company to perform several projects in the past, but they changed their name (and, ostensibly, their ownership), and they don’t …
Memorial Day
Today in the U.S. we honor the veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice and died in the military for our country. It is an important day of remembrance. Some interesting quotes to ponder in light of this day: “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt “When duty calls, that is when character counts.” — …
Fun Fridays – May 23, 2025
Today’s fascinating video shows, in a two-minute time lapse, the seven days and 65 hours worth of work to set up a stadium for a rock concert. Just imagine the logistics! Which pieces go first, which go last? And all must work flawlessly. This road crew did the setup 19 times in four months in 2022 across Europe. Consider it this way: It took 260 people with 90 trucks moving 1.35 tons of material into the stadium. Included in this particular show is 265 gallons of fuel for the pyrotechnics. The cost for the setup and tear down? Six million …
Publishing Without a Platform
I spent much of my early career in publishing, working with authors and publishers to market their books. It didn’t take long to experience the number one complaint of all authors working with all publishers: The marketing department didn’t do enough. And even when we did a good job, once the book launched and the initial marketing plan completed, the author and book were abandoned to sail across the choppy seas on their own, to keep the nautical metaphor going. Authors always needed a marketing platform to gain interest from publishers; it is just a different type of platform today. …