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I have to admit that I ride the fence about managing expectations. Sometimes, I think it’s a total bullshit word like engagement media, social media and Web 2.0. But, other days, I’m all for managing expectations. Eight times out of ten it’s very helpful. The ninth time, not so helpful and the tenth time? Total […]
Thanks to Adam for passing along this hysterical gem. I promise, other Clients are like this, but not us 🙂
Thanks to Dear Jane Sample, I got to see the below picture fairly early this morning. Not sure why, but that stupid, tiny sign helped me make it through the day. So here’s to all the tiny signs and post secrets that someone leaves for someone else to find.
I’ve spent a lot of the day thinking about my When I was 10 post from yesterday. It sucks that as we grow up we stop acting like kids because there’s never enough “time”. We should all slide down the slides more and swing on swings and spend an hour lying in the grass and […]
I love the Story of the Day. It’s one of the few newsletters that I take the time to open and read on a daily basis. Today’s was: Things I wanted to do when I was ten Make a wagon into a restaurant & travel around the world having adventures with my invisible pet dinosaur. […]
While I hope not to, I have a feeling I’ll be learning a hard lesson later today about the disposability of material things. For the last hour, I’ve been contemplating “worse case scenarios” and doing a mental inventory of my apartment. So far, I think I’d be okay if “starting over” was necessary. Well, except […]
Every month or so, the School of Communications at the University of Miami (from where I graduated) sends out an email requesting updated information about Alumni, i.e. where are you working so that we can make the school look cool/good if you in turn have a cool/good job. Sounds great and easy right? There has […]
All this stuff sounds hilarious coming from the characters of Charlie Brown. The best comedy comes from reality, right?
Social Media is stupid. Gasp! Deep intake of breath. Quick! Close your browser and pretend you never read this. Every big Executive who knows an ounce about the internet thinks social media is going to solve the world’s problems. Okay, maybe not the world’s problems, but certainly theirs. How many emails have you received saying, […]
When I was a little kid, I loved the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Somehow it always made me feel better about my bad day; Alexander’s day always seemed worse. I mean getting gum stuck in your hair and having cavities filled all in one day has to be […]