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Shut Up and Just Do It

// April 29th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Business, Career, Community, Economy, Government, Health, Leadership, Management, Parenting, What's Up

“Shut up and Just Do It” is my interpretation of this Art Williams (Billionaire) speech given back in 1987. Taking this to heart and thought you might want to do the same.

On Killing Our President

// April 24th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Economy, Government, Writing

As soon as I saw it, I wanted to comment on this ridiculous Facebook bit:

Dear Lord,
This year you took my favorite actor, Patrick Swayzie (sic). You took my favorite actress, Farah Fawcett. You took my favorite singer, Michael Jackson. I just wanted to let you know, my favorite president is Barack Obama. Amen.

Getting Robbed in a Foreign Country

// July 23rd, 2008 // No Comments » // Christianity, Economy, Health, Ministry, Travel

I have a former employee at my current church who quit working for us to go on a one-year round the world missions excursion on a bare bones budget. Read his commentary on this trip blog.

The crazy news is that he was robbed at gunpoint in Johannesburg last night and all his possessions were taken. If you can send a few extra dollars his way, instructions are below on how to do it. Here is his story on the robbery:

Grandmother 2.0

// March 26th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Career, Community, Economy, Family, Family Values, Learning, Parenting, Relationships

(Mom, I know you are reading this, but I just had to blog this.)

So while laying in the bath (don’t picture it) catching up on my email on my iPhone this morning I get this from my Skype-friendly mother:

>> I noticed that your location on Twitter is still Frisco. I enjoy
>> reading it. Did you get the email from Facebook about adding me?

To which I responded to my mom:

Why Netflix Gets It and Blockbuster Does Not

// February 23rd, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Business, Community, Design, Economy, Management, Movies, Programming, Television, Venture Capital, Writing

So I attempted to cancel my Blockbuster.com subscription a few moments ago because of a bad experience, and had to fill out a survey to get it done. There was a comment field where they asked “How Can We Improve? Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you’ve decided to cancel your account?” So, I was willing to help out and wrote the following in my very sick state (the flu or a cold maybe). Upon submission of the survey, a form error was returned on the comment field which reads: “Please type in 255 characters or less for your comments.”