Category: Values
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…and the Agony of the Cheap
The Joy of Excellence, and the Agony of the Cheap Yes, this is a play on the old ABC Wide World of Sports slogan, “The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” I probably should have used “The thrill of quality, and the agony of the cheap.” but my site isn’t called “ThrillOfQuality”. The…
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A Body At Rest… Newton’s First Law of Motion…
“A body at rest remains at rest. A body in motion remains in motion.” I saw a great advertisement tonight about health. It was pointing to the fact that a “body at rest” (someone with a sedentary lifestyle) tends to keep that lifestyle, while “A body in motion” (someone with an active lifestyle) tends to…
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What fun–Feynman Videos
Project Tuva, from Microsoft Research has some Richard Feynman videos. Anyone that knows me knows that one of my favorite books is “Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman – Adventures of a Curious Character”. And in reading “Pro Silverlight 4 in C#” by Matthew MacDonald he pointed to a site that had some interesting Silverlight applications.…
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eDriver’s Ed–Is it time?
Should our schools now be required to teach about driving safety on the internet superhighway? The idea of teaching internet safety to our children is not new. And, after years of working on the internet I’ve discovered that I’ve never had an original thought… just “original to me”… So I’m sure this is elsewhere… But…
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Walt Disney Life Lessons
Someone sent me this in a Word document. While the source was not attributed, I did go find it here. I thought it was pretty nice. ———- Clearly there is a ton to learn from Walt Disney. Let’s take a look at 7 Life-Changing Lessons from Walt Disney: 1. Keep Things in Perspective “A…
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Gentleman’s Smart Key Passive Entry
Technorati Tags: Values,Prius Headline: I enjoy the “Gentleman’s Keyless Entry” that I have with my 2010 Toyota Prius. What do I mean by Gentleman’s Keyless Entry? First I need to review some history. Before Remote Locks There was a day that cars did not have remotes to lock and unlock them. So a driver had…
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Initiative and a Message to Garcia
This is the full content of a brochure I received when I was a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves in the 420 Engineer Brigade. I thought I’d lost this information which really disappointed me – I refer to concepts contained within it frequently. Now I’m putting it here so that hopefully I don’t lose…