I first heard of this movie while reading the forums over at MartialTalk. Someone had found a preliminary trailer and so everyone was awaiting the movie and discussing whether or not it would be any good. I went ahead and stuck it in my Netflix queue and mostly forgot about it until it showed up in my mailbox last week. I watched it over the weekend. Okay, I admit. I really wanted to love this movie. It has ninjas in… Continue Reading
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin, this weekend and I’ve mostly been enjoying it. A linchpin is an indispensable, creative, artistic, original thinker, who isn’t willing to follow the rules. Supposedly, corporations want linchpins. I disagree. I’m about two thirds through the book, and this concept of corporations wanting linchpins is really the only major thing bothering me about the book so far. I agree with the idea that the world of workers as factory cogs is dying, that… Continue Reading
/begin pet peeve rant I’m not super anal retentive about grammar. I understand that typos happen. I’m not even all that bothered by alternate spellings when it comes to “color” vs. “colour”. Despite having formally studied English in school, I’ve made plenty of errors in my time and continue to make them to this day…and even in this blog post. I ramble. I twist sentences around. I even dangle things from the end of them that just shouldn’t be dangled,… Continue Reading
I’ve been reading this book, Escape from Cubicle Nation, by Pamela Slim, and I also subscribe to her blog by the same name. She helps people get away from corporate jobs and start businesses of their own. Today, she posted a video of the presentation she made to Google employees at the beginning of August that she titled Career in the Era of the Side Hustle. Now remember, this is a lady who helps people escape from their corporate jobs,… Continue Reading
I was messing around with my signatures in gmail and just started thinking about email in general. In Outlook there is this “feature” that I don’t use that will flag your outgoing messages with a “!“ that supposedly informs your recipients that your message is of the utmost importance and should be read and acted upon at once! Do a lot of people really think that adding that exclamation point actually works to make their email recipients leap out of… Continue Reading