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10 Ways to Get Happy
Ahhhh Pharell, you gave us a song to make us happy even as it’s driving us all a little bit crazy. We saw you on Oprah and you seem like a legitimate, caring person. We are even starting to appreciate your exceedingly homely hats. But, you did more than that, [...]
The hidden secrets of color
Much as been said and or written about the way color shapes our world, our attitude and our thoughts. This, you may be happy to hear, will not be a blog about the psychology of color...fascinating as the subject is. The original intent of this blog was to study and [...]
A lesson in brevity
Sometimes you can say more with fewer words. Following is a recent post made by my friend, a middle school science teacher. Student: “I’m going to miss class tomorrow, I have to go to a violin thing.” Teacher: “Ok, thanks for telling me.” Student: Starts to leave and turns back, [...]
Google Glass and Me
I’m not someone who is normally considered an early adopter of new technology. Technology and I have a sort of mutual respect for each other, meaning we, (or more accurately, I) keep a respectable distance until new and technical becomes easy and less complicated, mainstream with most of the bugs [...]
Exciting News of the Week
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Management Perspective
Years ago, Steve Jobs asked his designers to come up with a portable tablet that would have touch technology and be able to access the internet, and play videos and games. After months (or years) of development, when the prototype was presented to Jobs his immediate reaction was that new [...]
What my mom meant by fresh
My mother used to call me fresh. Or more accurately she would say something like, “don’t get fresh with me.” What I remember most is that being called Fresh felt more like a compliment than an reprimand. Maybe my mother said it with some sort of repressed smile on her [...]
Fresh as the new driven snow.
(Writer’s note: This was written last week but due to some complications not posted. Who knew it would still be appropriate today April 19th with yet another fresh round 4-12 inches of snow in Minnesota.) It’s April 11th in Minnesota and we are in the grips of a very unfair [...]
