Feb
17
2005
A friend forwarded this terrific Japanese commercial — it’s about a 3Mb mpeg file and you can either download it or stream it to watch it. Some of the best commercials come from overseas (that’s probably what they say about our commercials over there!)
Feb
17
2005
I was having lunch with a friend the other day and we were talking about all the fuss these days on the coming of the Right Brain thinkers into business and the mainstream. You know, they were always treated as an outsider in school whether they were a right OR a left-brain kid. Either way, they were called geeks or nerds. But the brainiacs were mostly the ones who excelled at math and science. In many ways, a lot of us got vindicated when the technology boom came in the 80′s with the introduction of the PC. Being a geek became cool (and lucrative.) But artists and writers were considered even further out there on the fringes.
So now right-brain thinkers are getting some overdue recognition as the wunderkind of the decade. I think rarer still are the right- AND left-brain thinkers who can truly manage to straddle both sides of their brains without going mad! In fact, if you really think about it (no pun intended), too little — or no — communication between the two brains and you’re schizophrenic or bipolar. Too much communication and you’re either insane or ADD. Ahh — the science of the brain! So the logical conclusion is that the most valued thinkers will be those who traverse the hemispheres with ease. Low single-digit percentile. Probably not a category that can be easily defined or tested by today’s standards. I suspect once all the current trend dies down about right-brain thinkers as CEOs, everyone might realize that the scales just keep tipping from one extreme to another. (Hey — this almost sounds like politics!)
Feb
17
2005
Woot! has been around for a short while now and I love checking in when I’m near a computer at 11:00 at night my time in Seattle (they’re on Central time). In case you’ve never checked them out yet, Woot! puts up one item every day on their site (complete with well-written descriptions) at a fantastic, irresistible prices that can only be offered by closeout specialists like them. The item stays up for the day and many often sell out within minutes after posting, taunting you with a Sold Out! headline until the next posting. Great concept. You’ll love it. (And yes — I’ve already checked it tonight before posting this!)
Feb
17
2005
We’ll all miss Johnny Carson. I remember first watching him as early as the 70′s when I lived in Toronto; the man had class and style to go with his impeccable sense of timing and delivery. Irreplacable! Here’s his classic Copper Clappers skit as could only have be done with the original Dragnet’s Jack Webb. I think I can hear Ed MacMahon in the background laughing.
Feb
16
2005
A friend of mine just circulated an e-mail with some of the pictures from a book and website titled, Why Paint Cats? How anyone came up with the idea is beyond me but some of the images are pretty cool. And some of the pissed-off reactions they’ve posted are also pretty cool. PETA — eat your heart out!
Feb
16
2005
Some newly-married people who probably shouldn’t be hyphenating their last names!
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