Thanks to the National Hurricane Center, I learn that I chase women across the north Atlantic.
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Working the Crowd: Ignite
Ignite is a series of 5 minute presentations on all sorts of different things. The presenters get exactly 5 minutes, with 20 slides and the slides are autoadvanced every 15 seconds. It’s a cool setup because you have to compress the information you’re showing down into its most elemental form. This one is on how …
Fun Video
Performance Heh heh heh. I’m living this right now.
24 Character Joke
Those people on Twitter are familiar with the 140 character limit for postings. That makes for condensed humor in its purest form. I, however, need to come up with a joke that occupies no more than 24 characters and is worthy of being found on my dead body. Why? I have a nice discount on …
Delta New Fee: Sucks to be Offline, or Poor
Delta, US Airways, United all enact a Poor Person’s Fee on checked baggage. “But starting Aug. 4, Delta will start charging those who pay for checked bags at airport ticket counters, kiosks and curbs…” The fee is an additional $5 if you don’t do it online. Usually I try to keep my blog a bit …
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Ten Percent Unemployment
It’s official. Georgia’s Unemployment Rate hit 10.1% with the latest release of numbers. That is all.
2009 Callaway Gardens Sprint Triathlon
I participated in the 2009 Callaway Sprint Triathlon a few weeks ago, on a whim. It was the week before and I happened to get an email from the race director mentioning the race. I thought to myself, “self, why not do that race?” So I did. It was a good, fast, PACKED race. The …
New Bike!
Despite assurances by myself to the contrary back when I signed up for the Florida Ironman, I bought myself a triathlon-specific bike a few weeks ago. It is a Felt S32 with Shimano Dura Ace/105 and Felt TTR4 wheels. For those of you who have no idea what that means, it’s an entry-level tri bike. …
New Images at Flickr
I just uploaded a whole raft of pictures, but I haven’t had a chance to go tag or label them. Go. Have a guess as to what’s going on in them.
Promotion for Incompetency
Everybody knows the Peter Principle, right? It goes something like, “in an organization, a person will tend to rise to their level of maximum incompetence.” Well, researchers from the Universita de Catiana have shown this to be the case in an agent-based system, leading to large reductions in efficiency. Any potential solutions? Yes, indeed. The …