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Ever Wish Your Brain Were Bigger? |
Someone asked me recently to fill in the blank: "Problems are..." My answer was "Problems are fun!" I like a good puzzle, it's true.Woking on 247 today, I'm up agaist a doozy. The solution I employ will affect every aspect of this. Nothing like a bit of pressure... |
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I like biking. Lately, we've had a lot of rain. I could go with the typical rain gear, but frankly, it's a bit awkward.  So I decided to look around for some alternatives. There's this strange-looking option for recumbent bikers.  Moving up - just a little bit - is this bike taxi from Cuba.  There are those who try to put a form of plastic cover over the average bike.   And then we get into the more professional, manufactured options...   That last one will run you over $30,000. Granted, it's a two-seater with an electric motor that will run up to 50 mph, but no bike is worth that much money. I can buy a hybrid car for that much. Seems to me that some enterprising individual can arrive at a better solution. If I had the money, I'd get started prototyping. |
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Today, I met with a woman I know who runs her own web company. While chit-chatting, she mentioned that she was having problems hiring salespeople. The last guy she hired sold her product / service to one customer in the entire last year, all while on a mix of commission and salary. She told him earlier this week that he was now all commission. She's not holding her breath for his next sale. "Honestly," she said, "I just don't know how willing some people are to, you know, work." In the meantime, she's sold her product / service to several companies and organizations in just the last two months.Sales isn't for everyone, that's for sure, but it does take work. From contact to interest to demo to sale... and then to implementation and follow-up and service... it's a lot of contact and relationship management. It's work. Even being unemployed is work. Or at least it ought to be... as Robert Scoble says in his advice to those newly laid off: "Don't get lazy. It might seem dire, but if you work it you WILL find a job. Some of my friends went on vacation, started drinking, or generally just hung out with their families. Those people took a LOT longer to find a job than the friends of mine who approached their time off [wisely].Make sure you spend at least 30% of every day trying to find a job. That means working on your resume. Getting your cover letter finished. Sending out resumes. Searching the web for work. Networking. Etc. At first your time spent on these tasks should be a lot higher, but after weeks of watching the job sites for jobs and having your resume checked over by 10 of your friends you will naturally have more time to spend on other things. In talking with a former manager earlier this week, she remarked how she has heard that the Millenium Generation will not get the urgency of life. Their parents take care of most everything for them. They won't be as accountable for their actions. I don't know where she heard all of this, but if true, bummer for them.Work... it's a good thing. Personally, I like work. I like the accomplishment of creating what wasn't there before. I try to teach my kids to like work. What they like most about work right now is the paycheck they receive. But there's more to work than that. I suppose that awareness comes with experience. Is work celebrated by most folks? Anticipated and desired? If not, how do you teach that? |
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Liberal parents love their children - or so they say. Because only a cruel, mean parent would willingly put their child into slave labor, and that's exactly what is happening today... millions of parents going gaga over national health care and other new entitlements. Government knows nothing about health care. If an HMO is bad, why is government-managed care any different or better? As a bloated and ignorant middleman in the health care system, it can't do anything except stick out its big meaty paw and expect you to pay yet more money on top of the doctor's fees to pay for its health-care-managing bureaucrats. They didn't go to school for it, so what value is government bringing to health care to make it better for you? All that money has to come from somewhere... government doesn't make its own money. Money for all these promised programs will come from your kids. Entitlements are the new child slave labor in America. Tomorrow's retiring generation will exact their comfort from tomorrow's workers - our kids today. Love your children? Derail entitlements now. Only the cruel and greedy vote for politicians who promise them more entitlements. Parents who get excited for government entitlements are either cruel parents who knowingly want to make the lives of their children harder, or they are ignorant rubes who can't do the math to understand the harm of the added bureaucratic cost. I love my kids. I want them to enjoy America's freedoms as much as possible. They won't do it with a $1 million-plus lifetime tax burden taken straight from their paycheck before they can even see a dime of it. Think about it... a home doesn't cost that much. I think I'm gonna get a bumper sticker: "Entitlements = American Child Slave Labor" Or maybe this: "National Health Care = 50% Tax Rate for Our Kids" Or maybe: "It's Cruel to Make Kids Pay for Your Retirement" Entitlements will crush our kids. People who love kids would never support that and would never vote for politicians who promise entitlements. |
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Google Hates Memorial Day |
Like those cute little Google logos? For all of those special and forgotten holidays? Once again, Google - an American company - hates on Memorial Day with the omission of a custom logo. Someone else put out a request for what the Google logo might have become if the leftist owners of the company might have sought one. Were some submitted to Google? You betcha. All the following logo designs were submitted to Google, which has never responded or even acknowledged receipt of the submission. My favorite: God bless all our veterans and their families. We have the freedoms we have because of the sacrifice of so many good people. |
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Like cattle in a chute, we're led to move in certain ways. The word "sale" will pull people off their intended route. A woman who moves too fast will drive many men off. A penny glued to the floor will bring a lot of people to try and pick it up. Face it. We can be predictable. I've never liked cars much. I hate driving. My vehicle of choice has two wheels.  Fuel efficiency? This baby's got it in spades. How will the permanency of high gas prices affect our behavior? Like cattle in a chute, we will move toward more economical vehicles, less commuting, more telecommuting, more public transit... these are somewhat predictable trends. Less predictable, but understandable, would be a surge in home gyms, gardening, Netflix, and camping - among other gas-negligent things you can do. Apply it to your industry... how does this shape up? If you're a teacher, students might get less involved in sports. It costs money to drive to these many events, after all. What might you emphasize in its place to help your students? You own a restaurant, so maybe you could offer a deal where people can buy a meal tonight and then take one "to go" to heat up for tomorrow night? Saves gas, more efficient. You sell real estate? You might want to ensure that prospective buyers are pre-qualified before driving them all over. Or perhaps look into providing more 360° home tours via the web for your listings. As I've heard before, if you're going to get kicked, just make sure that you're pointed in the right direction first. |
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If you elect the right people, your child could be born into a debt of $1 million. Right from birth! Just by breathing... You can think of these children as reverse millionaires. Today, the average lifetime household taxpayer bill is over $500,000. When obligations of state and local governments are added, the total rises to $531,472 per household. That is more than four times what Americans owe in personal debt such as mortgages. Your kids can forget about buying a home... they can focus instead on paying the government to act as a costly middle man for all of the needs in your life.Love your kids? Don't make them pay for your generation's entitlements.  |
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