If a picture is worth a thousand words…
then the videos you are about to see are priceless. They certainly left me speechless. Prepare yourself for the cheese-fest. The Renewed Mind… Our Promised Seed?
Evan Tanner, R.I.P.
Possibly the worst news to hit MMA in a long time…according to a news story on Five Ounces of Pain, Evan tanner has been found dead near the Palo Verde mountain area. Death is always a tragic story, but it seems even more out of place when it’s someone like Tanner: only 37 years old …
The Curse of Ratings
On the most recent episode of ESPNs MMA Live, the prediction was unanimous: Couture-Lesnar will break all UFC PPV records. That’s good for the business, good for the fighters and (hopefully) good for the sport. But it certainly stinks for the UFC heavyweights. At UFC 81 Nogueira defeated Tim Sylvia in the third round with …
Book Review: Love Is the Killer App
The Big Idea behind Tim Sander’s (former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!) first book is very “proverb-esque”: You can win business and influence friends by being a lovecat. So, what is a lovecat? Sanders defines lovecats as those “Nice, Smart People” who cheerfully share their intangibles with others: their knowledge, their network and genuine compassion. …
8th Grade English?
I can’t believe what I heard today. My mind is still reeling. A coworker stopped me a this morning to ask my “advice” on a situation at her son’s private Christian school. Not sure that I can do justice to the description, but let me try to “splain-it” the best I can. Her son is …
The Language of Music
Not normally the kind of blog post I make, but it is one of those moments too good not to share. Let me set the stage. I am in my entertainment room, Sony Vaio on my lap, plugging away on a client web site design. As I often do, I have Rhapsody up and running. …
Human Capital?!
Okay, let me begin by saying that I am not normally a “politically correct” type of guy. Too often I find myself having to explain what I did and did not mean by something I said because I am not “sensitive enough” to recognize how it could have possibly been deemed offensive by that one …
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Trying to set up mobile blogging…
Brain 2.0, Memorization and More…
One of my favorite bloggers in the eLearning universe is Tony Karrer. Today, he recapped some venting he did recently on the topic of whether we should be “aiming at creativity, synthesis, composition, etc. more than memorization” and training “students who are knowledge-able rather than knowledgeable.” You can read the entire post here. Tony’s post …
Lessons from the Octagon, 002
Forrest Griffin: Never Give Up In 2003, Forrest Griffin was making the transition from a police officer in small-town Athens, GA., to a bona fide mixed martial artist with an impressive amateur record of 6-0 and a professional record of 6-1, which included wins over Jeff Monson and Travis Fulton as well as a tough …