May 2012
1 post
April 2012
2 posts
February 2012
3 posts
“It is a random universe to which we bring meaning”
– Sheldon Kopp
January 2012
3 posts
Pinpointing Ice Cube's "Today Was a Good Day" →
November 2011
3 posts
“I’ve never felt a pain that didn’t bear a blessing.”
– Gene Knudson Hoffman
October 2011
3 posts
Coldplay - Paradise →
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
3 posts
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
June 2011
2 posts
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
January 2011
1 post
August 2010
4 posts
The Process of Creating a Print Ad, according to...
Let me share my experience with you. Let’s go through the steps involved to manage the creation and placement of a print ad for a multifamily property. (We’ll assume you don’t choose to have the publisher create the ad because that would be poor strategery).
Design. Work with your designer who is most likely not in house and in another state. Go back and forth tweaking images, copy, logo...
Caregiver of the Year
During my years in student affairs I always joked with Emily Boling that we could write a book titled “Well What Happened Was…” The book would be the numerous accounts of students who had made a series of bad decisions. Occasionally it was a tale that had the best of intentions but ended up being the worst scenario. This happens to the best of us sometimes. And it’s exactly what...
“Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in...”
– Hal Lancaster
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
July 2010
1 post
Hometown Glory
I am willing to guess that most people do not end up living in the house NEXT to the house they grew up in. How that all happened is another story for another day. A quick search on Facebook confirms that of the 528 people “I am friends with” (70 I grew up with) not a single ONE currently resides in this hometown of ours. I suppose nationwide numbers might present some small percentage, but I...
June 2010
5 posts
“I am reminded of my autonomy when there is no one else to kill the spider.”
Bird Watching
I’ve been observing my Grandpa for the last 15 days. He is 92 and has stage 6 Alzheimers. He whistles tunes that don’t make sense, uses the wrong words, and can’t recall tasks he’s done each day for the last 36 years. Despite the Lieutenant Colonel’s inability to give or follow orders, he’s happy in his world of one.
Each day we eat lunch and after we’ve taken our seats with our sandwiches, the...
“Ronald Reagan’s well documented final battles with Alzheimer’s...”
– William L. Jenkins
May 2010
4 posts
Happy Hour
Carly: This drink (Lemonade+Vodka) is so good, I could drain it.
Sound: Sluurrrrrrrp!
Andy: (see image below)
“The speaker points out that we don’t really have
much of a grasp of...”
– Louis Jenkins, “The Speaker”
April 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
Why the Great ILS Debate?
Exhibit A: A graph from www.Quantcast.com showing a comparison of “the top” multifamily Internet Listing Sites.
Fact: A steady decline in traffic for the ILS’s since August 09. About a 50% reduction.
CW’s Opinion: It’s not just print that has been dying over the last few months.
Exhibit B: Another graph that compares three ILS’s monthly traffic with...
“I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were...”
– William Carlos Williams
December 2009
1 post
WatchTiger Woods can drive a golf ball, but not a car.
October 2009
4 posts
SF Found! @TonyHawk #THTH
Last week Tony Hawk (Twitter bio: professional skateboarder, dad, videogame character, husband, ceo, kid chauffeur) hosted a week long scavenger hunt on Twitter. The official #THTH (Tony Hawk Twitter Hunt) packages were hidden across the country and even in the UK. If you are one of his 1.7 million followers - you couldn’t have missed the frenzy. I actually wasn’t a follower until I...
Terry Cloth Superhero →
Watch
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September 2009
6 posts
Things I’ve learned lately
When a lawyer sends you a letter, your lawyer gets to send one back. You get the bill.
You can do everything right and have everything turn out seemingly wrong.
2T of coffee per 1 cup of water. Turn coffee pot on.
Fake grass for an average backyard costs about $25,000.
A Military Commissary sells food at cost + 5%. Don’t experience this if you do your shopping at Whole Foods or Ralphs with...
