Posted in customer service, food, technology on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How many times have you called up your pizza delivery guy and asked “how much longer will my order be?” Apparently, it happens a lot at Domino’s. Someone got sick of taking the calls and came up with a creative solution: an on-line pizza tracker. Domino’s claims it is accurate within 40 seconds! I’m tempted [...]
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Posted in career, corporation, creativity, work on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I work a company that sells fun products and has a decidedly “unfun” corporate atmosphere. I am willing to toe-to-toe with anyone, and I mean anyone, who says otherwise. There is a completely lack of smiley-ness around the place. There’s so much grey and taupe that you begin to wonder whether or not color ever [...]
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Posted in art, story, writing on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are a myriad of things we can point to in the marketplace to illustrate the trend of fascination with fantasy, magic, and fairy tales. One of my favorite examples are the Ugly Dolls and the little monsters that seems to be popping everywhere from coin purses to water bottles to stationery. A face only [...]
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Posted in child, children, curiosity, education on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock” In recent weeks I have encountered a number of people who have grown old before their time. Even in their 20′s and 30′s they have lost any desire to [...]
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Posted in art, creativity on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m amazed at the ability of retailers to make us believe we can become experts in any field if we just have the right books, the right tools, and maybe an in-store class or podcast to show us how. A quick search on Amazon.com for the word expert turned up everything from cooking to gardening [...]
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Posted in dreams, frog design, job, sleep, work on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In recent weeks, the news has been covered with new scientific research on sleep and how we are not getting enough of it. We use our jobs, families, and personal interests as reasons to deny ourselves rest. NPR recently ran a report on sleep. Though geniuses like da Vinci professed not to need more than [...]
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Today I participated in an off-site for work. There was a lot to focus on – we are facing an uphill battle, as are so many companies, in this tough economy that may soon get a lot tougher. It is easy to be distracted in this kind of environment; it is easy to get off-track, [...]
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Posted in environment, green, innovation, politics, WEF on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What I find fascinating about the U.S. military is their continual insistence that they care about preserving life and then with nearly every policy, the destruction of life on some level is considered acceptable. How is it possible that with all of the technology and funding that the military has at their disposal these days [...]
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Posted in technology on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On-line dating started as an urban phenomemon and ehave new confirmation that it has migrated to the mainstream. Once a trend hits the farming community in town whose populations barely hit triple digits, we can rest assured that a trend has tipped. Today I read about a site called FarmersOnly.com. It boasts 80,000 members and [...]
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