I was out braving the crowds doing some Christmas shopping today and I stopped at a store on Academy Avenue to check out the Glitz store. As I was returning to the car I noticed a vandalized bus shelter where the glass had been shattered. I had the camera in the van so I came back to take a few shots. Check out the rest of the pictures here.
Category: Grab Bag
Stuff about stuff
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Geocaching Friends
Geocaching Friends
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo.
I’ve got these guy sitting on the corner of my desk at the “home office” in the basement. The yellow guy, whom I’ve named “Medora Man” started off the collection when I picked him up from a geocache in Medora ND, while I was there on a mountain biking trip to the Maah Daah Hey trail.
Since then I’ve been keeping an eye out for small, bendable plastic figures to add to the collection. I haven’t been out geocaching for quite a while and it snowed last night so that will make it a little more challenging. Time to get out there and do a little hunting. Maybe Eric will let me have some time off from the renovation project. 🙂
Anyway, they remind me of some good times when work is not so good.
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Starbucks Test
This was edited lightly for profanity but I must admit if I heard this in line at Starbucks I’d be thinking the same thing. Besides, if Guy Kawasaki can post about it, so can I.
How to Change the World: Book Review: The No A**h*** Rule by Robert Sutton
The first step is to recognize who is an a**h***. Sutton’s blog cites one method. It’s called the Starbucks Test It goes like this: If you hear someone at Starbucks order a “decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low and one NutraSweet,” you’re in the presence of an a**h***. It’s unlikely that this petty combination is necessary—the person ordering is trying to flex their power because they are an a**h***.
The book on Amazon.
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Head Spinning
Very cool photos on the spiral theme.
Spiral pictures – Spiral photo gallery
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Closing up
This photo says it all. The leaves are turning and falling. It’s the Thanksgiving weekend and we’re at the lake to close up for the season.
The weather is very nice on Saturday, hitting 21C with a light overcast. After a couple of cups of coffee on the dock, we’re having breakfast with Scott & Mandi who are down for the weekend with Shirley & I. After breakfast we head back down to the dock to deal with the two new floating docks. In the end we decide to put the good one, the one that got renovated, in between to docks and leave the other one tied up parallel to the dock, pretty much where it’s spent the summer. Only time will tell if this was a good way to store them for the winter. They are just too heavy to get on shore.
With the boat & dock work completed, we take the rest of the day off and head into town. Scott & Mandi do a little shopping and Shirley & I take a walk on the Tunnel Island trails. We rendezvous back at Ho-Jos for some Kenora Mist’s. After a great steak dinner, we play Tile Rummy and Mandi & I clean up.
Sunday it’s all about putting the cottage to bed for the winter. Scott & I handle the outside chores and Mandi & Shirley pack up the kitchen & clean the cottage. By 1:15, we’re done and heading home. It was quite windy all last night and into the day. Thankfully, there was no rain we were sheltered from the west wind.
Farewell to Kenora was celebrated by a stop at the Chip Truck and the Dairy Queen. It was a great summer at the lake.
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Something to do
OK, I’m not even sure how I got to this little item. I was working away and of course after a while I’ve got a whack of browser windows open, so I’m closing down the ones I don’t need any more and this one pops to the foreground. The first time I tried it, no problem, but after that, he’s right!
The rest of Jeff’s site is kind of interesting as well. Quite a different user interface.
somethingtodo1.gif (GIF Image, 800×533 pixels)
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Roadkill, what is it?
Well, perhaps not technically road kill, but I did find it on the road dead. It doesn’t appear to have been run over so the exact cause of death is unknown. I also am not sure exactly what it is. Do you have any ideas? I’ll just add it to the wild life sightings this year at the lake.
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Crowdsourcing
This entry from Business Week made it to the IBM w3 internal home page in the “In the News” section. Interesting examples of “Crowdsourcing” are given, with some cautions as well.
Companies have been outsourcing to India and China for years. Now they are taking it to another level by using social networks such as MySpace, Second Life, and a multitude of virtual communities to solve their most gnarly business problems. Business model innovation is happening at a lightning clip. First there was outsourcing, then open-sourcing, and now crowdsourcing.
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Presentation Pro
I’m sitting in a session where they are explaining and demonstrating the new Presentation Pro tool that allows USANA Associates to create easy to use multi-media presentations to grow your USANA business. The room is packed out! People are sitting all over the place on the floor, and this room must hold 1,500 – 2,000 people!
The software is inexpensive and a subscription service keeps all the material up-to date. So, as new videos, audios, PowerPoint presentations are created and released, your system will have the most current materials. The basic outline is based on the Health and Freedom presentation sequence and topics. This is a tried and true order of presenting the USANA visions.
The opening slide has audio embedded for starting the presentation and it’s a drag & drop interface to pull materials from the library of resources into your customized presentation. You can augment the slides with video. So, for example, you can augment the compensation plan slides with a video of a Jeremy Stansfield doing a professionally prepared video segment explaining the plan. This allows you to go from a slide seamlessly into a video. Video can be pauses and re-started, allowing you to interact with the audience. You can have Robert Allen or Dr. Denis Waitley do a video close for your presentation. How cool and powerful is that!
There even going to make it work on a Mac in the future! But, no firm date yet 🙁
After you’ve created your customized presentation you can save it for further work at a later date, so you can keep all of the various custom presentations that you’ve created for different situations or focuses. You can even email the custom presentation structure to another Presentation Pro user for their use. You can even save it as a self-running CD that you can give to a prospect, complete with custom CD label generation in 4 formats with very professional graphics. You can even label it for a specific person using their name.
Save to Web and send an email link is another option for distributing. The resulting web presentation has the Associates information such as email address, phone number etc. embedded as part of the web presentation. Plus, you get a notification every time the recipient views your custom web presentation!
This will be a key tool for a successful USANA business associate.
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TenX Blast – New USANA Product
This morning at the General Session USANA announced a new product, TenX Blast. This new all natural fruit bar has 10 time more antioxidants that he best fruit juices or red wine according to independent Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity analysis.
This is a great new product that will go hard to head with the various antioxidant fruit juices that are popular these days and provides 10 times the antioxidant benefits at a lower cost than Tahitian Noni, g3, Xango and Mona Vie
