Check out my bil's coffee business. His coffee is pretty awesome!
He also has a blog about all things coffee.
He also has a blog about all things coffee.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Mumford and Sons
I'm always on the look out for new music. I listen to my cloud player or my iPod just about all day/everyday at work. I recently found Adele, Florence and the Machine, The Pistol Annies, and The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. I have totally been enjoying this album, it may be one of my new favorites.
http://www.amazon.com/Sigh-No-More/dp/B0038BBA4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320091754&sr=8-1
My brother recommended 'The Cave' but I went ahead and downloaded the whole album. I'm glad I did. I bought it on Amazon and at the risk of sounding like a commerical I have to say their cloud player is pretty neat.
I've been doing some Christmas shopping (early!) and have made a pretty decent dent in my shopping so far. I love Amazon! Pseudo-commerical is now over.
http://www.amazon.com/Sigh-No-More/dp/B0038BBA4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320091754&sr=8-1
My brother recommended 'The Cave' but I went ahead and downloaded the whole album. I'm glad I did. I bought it on Amazon and at the risk of sounding like a commerical I have to say their cloud player is pretty neat.
I've been doing some Christmas shopping (early!) and have made a pretty decent dent in my shopping so far. I love Amazon! Pseudo-commerical is now over.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Facebook security updates – how to make your account more secure
I think it's important to be aware of how things are changing on FB. ;)
http://blog.eset.com/2011/10/19/facebook-security-updates-how-to-update-your-account
http://blog.eset.com/2011/10/19/facebook-security-updates-how-to-update-your-account
My Life in Office Space
Recently a co-worker and I were just talking about the movie Office Space. He made a joke about us having 3 bosses and I just had to laugh. His comment immediately made me think about this quote from the movie:
Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
I think it's hilarous that Bob is absolutely astonished when Peter tells him he doesn't care. I wonder how many companies would react in the same situation.
At my current job I do not feel that I am living in this movie but at my last job I sure did. I had TPS reports (I kid you not), and I literally had 12 different managers. And truly... my only motivation was not to be hassled or to lose my job. As Peter says, that'll only make you work just hard enough. That's just sad. By the time I left I was so disillusioned with my work place that I took all my personal business from them and wrote a scathing letter to the HR department on my exit interview form. The employees that are still there are miserable and I feel sorry for them.
I think it is incumbent on companies to make sure that their employees are satisfied. I'm not going to say happy, because I firmly believe that a person's happiness is a choice we all make every day. But a company should be concerned with their employees. Employees who feel job satisfaction worked harder and generally more efficient. Not to mention the loyalty factor. I mean really, which one would you rather have... an employee who is engaged and cares about their work or one who literally just shows up and couldn't care less? If employees feel valued most of them will work hard for you.
Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
I think it's hilarous that Bob is absolutely astonished when Peter tells him he doesn't care. I wonder how many companies would react in the same situation.
At my current job I do not feel that I am living in this movie but at my last job I sure did. I had TPS reports (I kid you not), and I literally had 12 different managers. And truly... my only motivation was not to be hassled or to lose my job. As Peter says, that'll only make you work just hard enough. That's just sad. By the time I left I was so disillusioned with my work place that I took all my personal business from them and wrote a scathing letter to the HR department on my exit interview form. The employees that are still there are miserable and I feel sorry for them.
I think it is incumbent on companies to make sure that their employees are satisfied. I'm not going to say happy, because I firmly believe that a person's happiness is a choice we all make every day. But a company should be concerned with their employees. Employees who feel job satisfaction worked harder and generally more efficient. Not to mention the loyalty factor. I mean really, which one would you rather have... an employee who is engaged and cares about their work or one who literally just shows up and couldn't care less? If employees feel valued most of them will work hard for you.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Wise debt management
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/17/pf/expert/debt_free.moneymag/index.htm
I've heard my fair share of people say they are going to go debt free from now on. I at first thought that sounded good. But I have since changed my opinion of that, while too much debt is a bad thing, carrying a little debt is not. People with no payment history towards debt do not get as good interest rates as people who have proven they can wisely handle debt.
I've heard my fair share of people say they are going to go debt free from now on. I at first thought that sounded good. But I have since changed my opinion of that, while too much debt is a bad thing, carrying a little debt is not. People with no payment history towards debt do not get as good interest rates as people who have proven they can wisely handle debt.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Prom
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/16/pf/cost_of_prom/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=hp_bn3
Since when did prom become such an expensive affair?
Why do teenagers need a limo to go to prom? The average American household spent $807 on prom this year? That is crazy, I think I spent maybe $200 to go to my prom 12 years ago. Has inflation gotten that bad or has today's youth gotten an over inflated sense of entitlement?
Since when did prom become such an expensive affair?
Why do teenagers need a limo to go to prom? The average American household spent $807 on prom this year? That is crazy, I think I spent maybe $200 to go to my prom 12 years ago. Has inflation gotten that bad or has today's youth gotten an over inflated sense of entitlement?
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Thank goodness I'm not the only one
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/09/zach-galifianakis-to-keha-your-music-is-really-bad/?iref=obinsite
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks that Ke$ha's music is bad. I've listened, and watched her on SNL. Not impressed. Then I started listening to the lyrics of her music that my 8 yr old step-daughter was singing. Dirty free for all?!?! WTH.
I have since banned that particular radio station from our house, but there really is no way that I can keep her from listening to this crap. I realize that I will have to sit down and talk with her about how this music represents a rather irresponsible "adult" lifestyle. And why "we" may like her music, this is NOT the right way to approach life.
Really looking forward to that talk.....
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks that Ke$ha's music is bad. I've listened, and watched her on SNL. Not impressed. Then I started listening to the lyrics of her music that my 8 yr old step-daughter was singing. Dirty free for all?!?! WTH.
I have since banned that particular radio station from our house, but there really is no way that I can keep her from listening to this crap. I realize that I will have to sit down and talk with her about how this music represents a rather irresponsible "adult" lifestyle. And why "we" may like her music, this is NOT the right way to approach life.
Really looking forward to that talk.....
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Do you know where your Towel is?
Don't Panic!
It's Towel Day folks, are you carrying your towel?
What is Towel Day you say?
#towelday is trending on Twitter and @towelday is posting. Hey, I'm a geek in some ways and I'm proud of it. It warms my heart to see so many Douglas Adams fans out there! I have been a fan since I was young, playing the DOS based HHGTTG on the computer. I may have to see if I can download that game and play it tonight. I enjoy his writing so much, it's fast pace, quirk always makes me laugh. Plus you can always find a quote from him that applies to just about any situation.....
~I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
~A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
~Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
~He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
~He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
~Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
~I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
~I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
~If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
~If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
~In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
~Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
~It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
~The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
~The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
~This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
~Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
~You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
I highly recommend that you read Douglas Adams' work. He is a pretty cool frood after all....
It's Towel Day folks, are you carrying your towel?
What is Towel Day you say?
Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
#towelday is trending on Twitter and @towelday is posting. Hey, I'm a geek in some ways and I'm proud of it. It warms my heart to see so many Douglas Adams fans out there! I have been a fan since I was young, playing the DOS based HHGTTG on the computer. I may have to see if I can download that game and play it tonight. I enjoy his writing so much, it's fast pace, quirk always makes me laugh. Plus you can always find a quote from him that applies to just about any situation.....
~I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
~A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
~Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
~For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
~He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
~He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
~Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
~I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
~I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
~I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
~If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
~If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
~In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
~Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
~It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
~The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
~The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
~This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
~Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
~We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
~You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
I highly recommend that you read Douglas Adams' work. He is a pretty cool frood after all....
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