Reference Desk BINGO!

Since "Thing #4" is all about recording progress there really isn't much to say. So here is my gift, Reference Bingo.

Print off and play with your colleagues.

Enjoy!

Pictures Say a Thousand Words. Especially When They Are Altered.

What is a website about yourself worth if it ain't got some really bad picture of yourself in it? And no I don't mean just any bad picture from your formative past. No, I mean that picture that will be used if you are the victim of (although more flattering pictures are usually used) or the participant in some crime. The picture that gets plastered across CNN, "Americas Most Wanted" (What is it with the FOX Network and every show having "America" or "American" in the title? I mean American Dad, America's Most Wanted, American Idol, 24 with Jack Bauer always saving America), "A Current Affair", "Dateline NBC" and "Larry King Live".

So with Inspiration as my tailwind and Flickr as my guide I set out to find a web image tool that can improve poor quality images to pictures that reveal truth. As the saying goes, "A sculpture is not created by chiseling away but rather a great sculpture is revealed. The statue was always inside the stone". Or something like that.

So, just as candle light improves ones appearence so to does Flickr.

Take this typical image of myself:

It is what it is. Typical Evening News Fair. But take this same image and run it through a few filters and the true composition comes to life. The lighting can be altered to enhance the subtlties that my camera phone was affraid to show before.

The following is the result:

And isn't this what writing your own blog is really all about? Making yourself look better?

7 1/2 Habits Truth Revealed

Since we all know that Stephen Covey is a cult leader and his teachings permeate and infiltrate the highest places of our corporate world and our governments in his bid for world domination through his attempt to create a legion of “perfect management” I have consulted with some of our greatest researchers of secret societies, L. Ron Hubbard, Dan Brown, A Beautiful Mind and the Screaming Guy outside of Union Station downtown to uncover the true message of the “7 & 1/2 Habits online tutorial”.
1. Begin with the end in mind
Gin in Mind

2. Accept responsibility for your own learning
Creates learning

3. View problems as challenges
Problems an challenges

4. Have confidence in your ability to learn
ability to learn

5. Create a learning toolbox
Use Real ol ox or

6. Use technology
Use technology

7. Teach/mentor others
As teachers

1/2 Play
yap

So there you have it, the hidden message is "Gin in mind creates learning problems an challenges ability to learn. Use a real old ox or use technology as teachers yap."

But what does this mean? Surely the conspiracy can't be that easy. After running these results through my Flikr Capacitor and then using my Secret Agent Enigma Decoder Ring the writers of this most devious 7 1/2 habits have made their plans for us known:





Thats right "DRINK MORE OVALTINE"!

Convoy!

As I'm reading the Blog Titles that all the 2.0 participants have come up with it occured to me that blogging is not much different than the good old CB radio of yore. So with that as inspiration I will describe my morning cell phone call with my wife in the Jargon of those who keep the economy going, Truckers!

I drove my daughter to school today but was running late because of traffic, while on the way my wife called me on the cell to tell me the holiday plans she discussed with her sisters.

I put the hammer down but got stuck in the granny lane behind a roller skate taking the bubblegum to school. Then the old lady gives me a holler about Christmas plans after the hag fest. Over


I tell her, "I don't want to go to your fathers on Christmas Eve but rather on Christmas Day"

Negatory on the Jamboree Twenty at the Old Mans, Good Buddy. Over.


She says she agrees but her sister has allready bought dinner for Christmas day so we are going as planned.

10-4 good buddy but negatory, do you copy?


I say "fine but where do you want to eat tonight?"

10-4 good buddy. Requesting a twenty on panty hose junction tonight? Comeback


Her cell phone is fading and she'll call back later. Good buy darling.

We got some bleeding, I'll holler back on the nickel. eighty eight over.

Shout Outs!

Well I think my first post answers the question of will my blogs be "serious" and "professional" or simply off the cuff.

With that in mind here are some "Shout Outs", some key words to those that know me. When you read the word or phrase you'll know who you are and take this as my greeting;

Shut Up! Good Day to You.
Its a shame this had to happen here. (Must be said with a French accent)
Hows it goin?
You're a Canadian admit it!
Ich schmiere Käsekuchen auf mich in der Dusche .
Put it all on credit because tomorrow the meteor could strike. Also, Corcodiles
I like to get to the theater early so that I can get optimal seating for the THX Surround Sound.
Watch out for snakes.
Hows you doin? (Not to be confused with the above "Hows it goin?)
Ann Coulter's a Man Baby!
I say we give him the old "Colonel Tigh".
I like to walk down to the stream and sit a spell before I climb into my backyard tree stand.
Just what I wanted for Christmas, "Dance Dance Revolution" without the Playstation and a Freezer Chest!
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
DREADY
Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable,not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym(3 days a week),getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,at ease,
Shaka when the walls fell. His arms open.

And to anyone I left out "I don't like spam!" should cover the rest of you.

It Is A Festivus Miracle!

I have a Wii and a PS3, all before the 25th! And I even paid retail for one of them!

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