Star Wars Celebration is the annual Star Wars convention and the geek center of the universe. At the convention last week, The “Star Wars Force Awakens” trailer debuted and was subsequently viewed 88 million times in the first 24 hours of release. It basically broke the Internet. Come on. Even if you are not a […]
Princess Leia. Wow. Princess Leia is known for many things. She is known to snatch a laser blaster from a dead StormTrooper and pick off bad guys with impossible hip shots. She is know for fearlessly leading assaults against the Empire, the greatest evil to ever rule the galaxy. (Not just a country. Not just […]
My father relayed his first experience learning about motivation. Dad was a young 2nd Lt. right out of school. He was assigned to the 504st ordinance ammunition company. His task was to take big boxes of 105 artillery shells out of the warehouse by forklift, have soldiers put fuses into the shells, and have the […]
New Year’s Day is the real Groundhog Day. Will it be more of the same or something new this year? Using your tax dollars, someone in the U.S. Government has the job of researching and publishing the most popular New Years Resolutions each year. http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/New-Years-Resolutions.shtml Here is a few from the list and a some […]
“Over? It’s not over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”– Bluto. Animal House, 1978 I am a quitter. There. I said it. I was a freshman at a small private college 21 years ago. This college had three or four “fraternities” and a few “sororities”. These organizations were not the big organized […]
It happened on June 5th, 1989. The students in China rose up against the communist Chinese government. The government brutally repressed the uprising. The man standing in front of the tank in this picture is familiar to most of us. He has been called “Tank Man” or “Unknown Rebel”. The photo above is only one […]
Reuben: Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I’ll never forget it. Danny: That was our pleasure. Rusty: I’d never been to Belize. -Oceans 11, (2001) One of my favorite movies is Oceans 11. Two convicts put together a team of […]
What is success? Most people would say that success is “happiness”. But what does “happiness” mean? Money? Lots of Stuff? Fame? Achievement? Education? Health? Love? Success and happiness are not always the same thing. You can be very successful and be miserable at the same time. We will be tackling the subject of “What is […]
We lost Robin Williams yesterday. He was brilliant and troubled. You and I did not know the man personally, but he has been part of amazing entertainment for most of our lives. I thought I would always see him in great new movies that make me laugh. It reminds me that all good things come […]
“A display of golf balls that spanned many years reveled how they were transformed by the addition of one significant element. The first golf balls manufactured had smooth covers. A young, avid golfer experiencing financial difficulties played with a beat up golf ball. His playing partners noticed their smooth covered balls did not fly as […]
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