Archive for the ‘life’ Category
Friday, April 18th, 2008
via Guy Kawasaki on Twitter
New research suggests that as well as possessing extraordinary musical talent, drummers may also be natural intellectuals. By asking volunteers to keep time with a drumstick prior to taking an intelligence test, scientists found those with the best rhythm scored the highest in mental assessments, as ...
Posted in life, music, research | 7 Comments »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
You don't have to search very far to find all kinds of office pranks on the internet, from people filling whole rooms to the ceiling with styrofoam peanuts to all kinds of craziness, but I thought I would share a few of the standards.
One of the best was a joke ...
Posted in freshish thinking, life | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 10th, 2007
If you are reading this then you have stumbled upon the new server for shakegently.
I've been absent from posting for a week as I waited for my domain registrar transfer to complete. I was previously using the wordpress.com hosting service to host my blog (with my own domain).
I outgrew ...
Posted in life, social, technology | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
I'm not the only one that relies on caffeine to keep things moving during the day. As it turns out, according to a WorkPlace Media survey, 83% of American workers rely on caffeine, mostly coffee, to get them through. I first read about the survey in the November ...
Posted in business, life | No Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
You may have noticed a slight change in post frequency lately.
The biggest reason has been because I have been busy getting ready for the baby, which should grace us with her little presence at any moment now (October 16th was the due date).
That being said, Lora and I are launching ...
Posted in life, social | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
In case you almost missed it, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. In the days of lawsuits and political correctness, we all need to take a day just to be silly.
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Be sure to check out the latest updates on the event at the 2007 event page.
A few highlights ...
Posted in event, life | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about alcohol and energy drinks, I wanted to point out that the amount of caffeine in energy drinks is no more potent than our good old friend mr. espresso.
via CNN: Energy drinks' caffeine in line with coffee
Outside of the sugar, which I usually try ...
Posted in life, research | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Ok, so my tires on my Jeep don't look that bad, but it is time to get some new treads, and I'm taking my Jeep in to have some other service done to it, so now is as good of time as ever. Unfortunately its going to set me ...
Posted in advertising, life, social | No Comments »
Friday, July 27th, 2007
I enjoy Jenne's blog and I was reading her post about her bull running experience and I was reminded how seldom we step out of our safe zone. Jenne, you get the guts award for this one!
I was also inspired by a quote that Andrew posted:
"We can't solve problems ...
Posted in life, quotes, travel | No Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
My wife Lora is due with our first little one on October 16. I found out last night that Jeremy, one of my Barkley colleagues, has been added to the growing list of families with babies on the way. I know of about 10 others off the top of ...
Posted in Barkley, creative, life | 5 Comments »
