Lebron this year, is not the same player that he was last year in the playoffs for Cleveland.
Last year, he gave up.
This year he is trying.
No matter what he says about this, don’t listen. As always, don’t listen to what people say, Look at their actions.
I feel bad for the fans of Cleveland. It’s even more obvious this year, that he “gave up” last year.
Lebron = wimp
Brandy and I fell in love with the Nespresso Coffee machine on our recent trip to Australia. Our friends had an older machine and after dinner every night they made a perfect expresso in a matter of seconds. We researched the Nespresso machines out there and got a cube. We’ve had it since July 2009 and still love it.
It costs about .55 per capsule – so it more expensive than regular drip coffee at your house, but way cheaper than going to the shop. Here is a new video that they send customers a few days ago about 3 new flavors of coffee. Kind of a fun Video.
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We created a new category of work back in 2003 called blogging. Folks didn’t think that would work out.
from Jason Calacanis.
I enjoy reading this guys blog and he has a lot of good ideas and shares great stuff. It is unreal how much he thinks of himself at times. To say that “we created a new category of work in 2003 called blogging” is just plain inaccurate.
We were working/blogging well before 2003 as were lotsa of others. It is not unusual to see such a lack of humility from a yank entrepreneur of course. Maybe I should start blabbing and making stuff up. Folks just might believe it.
Maybe you read about these student protesting in front of the Chinese near Mount Everest. It appears that they were protesting on the Chinese side of Mt. Everest.
Not a smart move
Here are some of their quotes:
“The entire thing was fairly traumatic … not sleeping for over 30 hours, being denied food and water for over 14, basically being psychologically terrorized,” Service said Saturday in Katmandu.
and
During the interrogation, Service said a Chinese guard threatened her, saying: “If you don’t tell the truth, you will sleep in this room and harm will come to you.”
“I asked her if she threatened me; she nodded yes,” Service said. “I became very afraid for my own safety and the safety of my friends.”
Hello. China is not a democracy you idiots. What did you expect to happen when you did this? Yes, you got all this media attention and are on Yahoo’s homepage for a few hours. So well done on that front.
Most savvy travellers know that you don’t go into a communist country that is not your own and protest stuff. Wake up young folks. 30 hours of no sleep. I weep for you. Harm was almost done to you since it was “fairly” traumatic, but not quite. You put yourself in that situation. Don’t come crying about it now.
Stories like this crack me up a little bit. It seems like a scripted thing happened and they got the outcome that they wanted.
Been doing a tonne of planning and reflecting the past few days with colleagues and myself. My daily reading included the following passage by Guy Kawasaki.
Here’s some food for thought: perhaps this explains the inexorable march toward mediocrity of many (temporarily) great companies. Let’s say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it’s able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they’re the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is “proof” that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.
Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they’re the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don’t take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.
The last bit that I bolded resonated with me as the truth. I have seen it many times in others around me and myself at times. Sometimes I get a bit scared of taking risks…but I love the feeling of taking risks and fall victim to listening too much to the people around me about risks/no risks. Finding the right balance of risk is the key for me.
Traveling by yourself, starting a company, or going down a road that has no guarantees can seem like a risky thing. For me, it is when I feel most alive. Most people I know are afraid to do something like these things on their own.
Things to remember for me from this
Don’t be afraid to take risks and when you screw-up, admit it and learn from it/move one/don’t dwell.
Bertrand Russell : Why I Am Not A Christian
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing — fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
JL sent Chris and I this book last week. I grabbed it and read it over the weekend. Good read and makes a lot of sense to me. In the past 2+ years or so, I have gone on a lot of dates. All the would be relationships ended quick as 1 party was not interested in furthering it. I was happy about that so not to waste time and drag out something that I knew was not going to work. I reckon this attitude has kept a lot of these girls my friends and has led to more introductions…anyway, Leo the Love goddess, sent this book for Chris and I to read and I recommend it to anyone, married, engaged, or not at all.
The author, Sam R. Hamburg mixes us 30 years of martial therapy anecdotes and tonnes of practical observations on what types of couples are happy, and what types are not.
He discusses 3 things that couples should be as close as possible on, if they actually want to be happy in a life-long partnership.
1) Sexual Dimension – He says you gotta be attracted physically to your partner. This is where love starts
2) Practical Dimension – common interests. Do you have some/a lot of interests that you can share together?
3) Wavelength Dimension – See the world on a similiar wavelength. This one made a lot of sense to me. If you don’t see the world on a similiar wavelength, it is tough to feel that love long term.
Of course, I am explaining them in a super short manner – but he goes into each one in-depth and writes about how much is enough etc. I reckon he is a bit humble as well, cuz he says, these are just patterns that he sees over years…sometimes, there are rule breakers. It is just cool to hear about this guys perspective given that he has not only been married for 25+ years, he has been studying successful and unsuccessful marriages for 30+ years.
Check out this book ie Buy Will our Love Last at Amazon or ask Chris/I to borrow when he is done with it.
When I read an article like this about the pollution from fertilizer, it helps reinforce the idea that Organic farming techniques are important. I wonder what the farmer that uses fertilizer thinks…he may just be trying to put rice and beans on the table for his/her family. Or is farming become such a large corporate business, that big pulbic companies are letting their fertilizer run off into the Mississippi.
Off to Jury Duty today…hoping that I do no get picked this time. Last time I went in 1996, I was selected for a Murder Trail in Chicago.
Journalist killed in Iraq war justified
Reuters said it could not agree that the death of Dana, a prize-winning Palestinian cameraman, was justified and called for the urgent implementation of recommendations in the report to improve the safety of journalists in war zones.
What does the journalist expect. It’s war dude. People are shooting big guns at each other with the intent to destroy one another. Yes, it is tragic…but what do you expect – it’s war. Covering that shit is at your own risk in my opinion. Don’t expect young men that are killing or be killed to recognize you as a 3rd party every time.