Archive for June, 2008
Reading Online vs. Reading A Book
Public Speaking Rule No. 1: Know Your Audience Basically this means that you should know enough about your audience to effectively impart information in a way that stimulates their thinking or motivates them to action. How Can This Be Done Research your audience through interaction Consider what they already know about a subject and build [...]
In: Blogging · Tagged with: Blogging, Blogging Tips, Eye Tracking, Public Speaking
Do You Suffer From Affluenza?
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. Below is a brief and somewhat comical soap opera-ish video on this [...]
In: Health, Money · Tagged with: affluenza, debt, health problems, Money, the joneses
The Rise of the Freemale
As I do every M-F, I was listening to my favorite radio show last week (hi T&C) and they were discussing a new term I never heard before so I thought I would mention it here to see what people think about it. There’s a rising number of women who choose to live without a [...]
In: Just Thinking · Tagged with: Childless, Man, No Man, Single Woman, The Freemale, Women
Some Like It Hot
WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Soaring temperatures are leaving tens of thousands of New Jerseyans without electricity on one of the hottest days of the year. Full Story Here. I work in West Orange and the last time we had a power outage, we were sent home. You should have seen me running from the [...]
In: Seasons, weather · Tagged with: hamster, heat, hot, power outage, temperature, weather
Friends and Money
Q. What’s the quickest way to destroy a friendship? A. Lend them money. Okay maybe this is not true with everyone, there are some friends that we can lend money to and then there are friends that we shouldn’t lend money to, but we do anyway because: we’re friends, until they don’t pay us back. [...]
