April 2009
18 posts
3 tags
MLB.com AT BAT app now on sale!
The MLB season must-have app for the iPhone/iPod Touch is now on sale! With the app you get access to:
1. Play-by-play and video highlights
2. Pitch type, location and speed data
3. Live gameday audio of all games - and you can choose whether you want the home or visiting team’s announcers
Buy MLB.com At Bat at the iTunes App Store.
March 2009
29 posts
“There are many foks like you, Mackenzie, who end up locking themselves into a...”
– The Shack
4 tags
becoming generous with compliments
Fairly recently I decided that I would start being more generous with compliments. It’s fairly easy, of course, but does take some time.
I get great service every time I go to the Wal-Mart near us. The entire staff there is amazing.
One day I got particularly great service from three different staffers there (three!) and so I went to the corporate website and actually typed out how pleased...
2 tags
sod + heating cables = beautiful winter lawn
I had the opportunity to tour Coors Field this past week. I haven’t lived near a ballpark for over 15 years and so each time I have attended a game I was going somewhere pretty unfamiliar to me.
The tour was one more opportunity to learn the park, learn my way to and around the outside of the stadium and learn my way around the inside. It was fun being inside a luxury suite, the press room...
1 tag
WatchWatch this for insights into some kinds of psychological tools that stores can use to sell more.
“Deep technical competency is overrated compared with the ability to make...”
– Seth Godin
“When my editor suggested that I write about Rihanna this week, I ran screaming...”
– Mark Harris, for Entertainment Weekly
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
WatchI love this countdown that Ken Wilson helped create for NewSpring Church!
2 tags
Pretty Loaded →
Check out this amazing archive collection of preloaders. Fun stuff.
“Their customers, they figured, would be children, seniors, and the emerging...”
– Clive Thompson, on The Netbook Effect, for Wired Magazine. In the article he describes how the one-laptop-per-child initiative helped change the entire industry.
WatchI wouldn’t mind owning a house that actually moves — well the roof and walls move - exposing the beautiful glass frame to the sunlight. Watch this amazing house in action!
taming your e-mail inbox (temporarily)
1. Create a playlist of some pretty intense/fun music.
2. Pick one song and click Play.
3. Sort your inbox by Sender.
4. Read/file as many e-mails as you can before the song ends.
5. Move on to your next project. Later, rinse and repeat.
video is a 21st century skill
Dean Shareski really hit the ball well with this post on how video is an essential skill in this 21st Century. My kid can create/edit video as can most kids. It’s an essential skill.
Text-message conversation with my mom
Me: It's actually an hour earlier.
Mom: You brat.
Me: Your harsh anger is really love in disguise.
Mom: Yeah yeah yeah.
Usually she is the first one to hassle me about the time change. Today I got the upper hand. Our text conversation explains a lot about why I am the way I am today.
“(My photographer) brought over two 20 ounce bottles of diet soda…and I...”
– CNN correspondent Sean Callebs, on giving up diet soda and snacks while living on food stamps.
WatchA Twitter Guide, by Jon Stewart
large asteroid misses Earth
A few days ago we experienced a surprise fly-by of an asteroid that, if it hit Earth, would have caused something like a large nuclear blast. Relax, though. We had 3 days notice. 3 Days!!!
another problem with night-shifts
I’ve always been fascinated by the human body’s circadian rhythm, and how our biological clock is designed to regulate things like melatonin secretion and core body temperature. A new study shows that shift work can have a negative effect on a person, basically making their metabolism go haywire. When I’m jet-lagged my whole life goes a little haywire so it’s good to know...
