I think that I may use
a pen name for my next book. I'll call it, Dale Carnivore's Who Needs Friends:
Self Help for Hard Times.
When I'm king, rather
than have a leap day, we'll just have a floating "Mulligan Monday"
that folks can use for do overs after bad days
Notice that it's only
the guys with really catchy and unique names who are serious contenders in GOP
primaries? Mitt. Newt. Ron.
Wonder how long
Santorum's lead will last once Republicans realize that he is a good Catholic
who thinks it’s ok to ban contraceptives.
@codymckibb, a pioneer in redefining work and lifestyle, wrote a
delightful review of my book, The Fourth Economy. ht.ly/1gwYyZ
1,000 tweets. 1,500
blog posts. The idearrhea continues unabated. I probably owe an apology to
someone for this.
1st biz idea for 2012:
launch a website named huffandpuffingtonpost. We'll blow hot air about the
issues of the day.
@trammel :) almost said we would do our bit to raise
levels of fear and paranoia but given it is a media outlet, that seemed
redundant.
Just got a call to
lower my interest rate. As if the rate of interest in a recorded telemarketing
pitch could get any lower.
Biz idea: line of toys
with hidden magnets that you couple with strip around room. Flip switch and
Pooft! Toys instantly "picked up."
Those lunatics on so
Cal freeways who drive the speed limit. It's like they WANT to be rear ended.
Perry says Iranians
will "literally move at the speed of light into Iraq." Why did Obama
let them develop speed of light mobiles?
The new rule of social
media is that if it takes you longer than a single tweet to explain yourself,
then you probably won't hold people's
One of the harder
things to know in life: when to persist, when to adapt, and when to abandon.
Alabama leads in
points, but LSU is still ahead in arrests. [reference to national college football bowl]
Huntsman's share of
vote rose from 1% in Iowa to 17% in NH, which projects to 289% in SC. Finally,
a candidate who can intimidate Putin.
T-shirt idea: Sorry.
My funny t-shirt is at the cleaner's.
The GOP contest is
getting ugly. Newt just threatened to quit the race to spend more time with
Mitt's wife and family.
Sold out crowd at USD
to hear @alfiekohn. Great
anticipatory buzz. Refreshments before his speech and then we change the world
after.
RT #1: Some chick asked
me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I'd wonder where the rest
of my money went.
Product idea:
low-rider pants. Blu light emanating from below the cuff. Hydraulics that lift
the hem up and down.
Among Eli Manning's
many annoying traits is his disregard for inevitability. Spoils Patriots perfect
season in '08 and Packers near-perfect season this year?
Huntsman, liberals'
favorite candidate they'd never vote for, and candidate who tested best in
simulations against Obama, is dropping out.
Play calls I'd like to
see: "Jones and Bigowski, you drop 10 yards then dance the Finale from
Chorus Line."
@dmorey the original sports simulation must have been
that electronic football game that vibrated the players to move them.
Tomorrow, Wikipedia
protests #SOPA by going dark. Or, as legislators call it, "fact-free"
Wednesday.
Just say
"Arrr!" to the Stop Online Piracy Act #SOPA.
He'd met reality once.
Didn't much care for it.
Wonderfully accessible
and insightful conversation about finance :http://bit.ly/waUeLN (It's difficult to kill the gods)
Rick Perry dropped out
without challenging anyone to a duel to avenge his loss? I thought he was most
likely to Aaron Burr the primaries.
@PeteDominick Newt's Health Care Plan: full coverage until
expensive diagnosis, when your coverage goes to a younger, prettier patient.
Investors sell off
GOOG upon realization that Google's earnings potential is finite.
The only reason there
is a Republican front-runner is because there has to be.
Who knew that coming
out in favor of open marriage was all it took to win in South Carolina?
http://bit.ly/yBIXWE 2011 - most jobs created in San Diego in a
decade. Seems recessions and recoveries are initially ignored as anomalies.
Good news in San
Francisco: the Giants will play in the Super Bowl! Bad news: Oh. Right. The
Giants is the name of our baseball team.
RT @hotdogladies Actually,
elitism is beneath me.
Theory about why GOP
lead keeps changing: primary voters hate experts and will vote out of their way
to confound pundit predictions.
So one billion+ people
suddenly convinced it is the start of a lucky year. What a fascinating
experiment in risk taking.
First Crofts now Klum.
Poor Seal - yet another traumatic breakup. [Warning - this tweet contains
decades old reference.]
Biz idea: apply clown
car technology to mass transit and moving companies.
Kind of hope Obama's #SOTU is just blooper reel from GOP debates.
It's always darkest
before the yawn.
Seeing congress
(median age of 85?) at #SOTU perhaps the reason there's no cooperation is because they (literally)
cannot hear each other.
"My pleasures are
the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting." - Nabokov
(quote courtesy of @brainpicker
Absolutely gorgeous
drive up the coast to Irvine today. Now sunny and 76.
"Orgasmic salad?
That's disgusting."
"Um, that's organic."
"Oh. In that case
I'll just have the soup."
Facebook going public
raises privacy concerns .... (among headlines we'd like to see)
Laugh at Newt for his
moon colony idea, but at least he's got a backup plan: if he doesn't win the
presidency, he'll be space emperor.
Here's a project I
helped a client to plan: treatment reduces patient injections by 330 per yr. http://bit.ly/y1tA0Y
Newt Gingrich:
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" Bob Dole:
"Because it saves them time.
He was like a dogma
with a bone.
Iran has the
capability to maybe develop a bomb eventually? So this is now sufficient
justification for attack?
Rejected GOP campaign
slogans: "You have to admit ... it's gonna be Mitt."