(Updated 11 October 2018 with Nissan section.)
After binge-watching auto mechanic Scotty Kilmer’s YouTube videos, I needed to record some of what I’ve learned about the various car brands. Scotty has over 50 years of experience as an independent mechanic, and he freely shares his experience and advice through his YouTube channel and the Scotty Kilmer website. (more…)
Mike Rowe’s creed and philosophy is contained in The Sweat Pledge, which he has for sale as a poster on his Mike Rowe Works Foundation website. All proceeds go the foundation, which does a wonderful job (pun) promoting the dignity of work in general and work in the trades in particular. I love Mike’s sense of humor and mission. He’s a good man.
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Some think the seeds of life came from the Big Bang, but that misses a critical part of how the elements of life came to be.
Because I’ve been told I’m part Slovenian but know nothing about my homeland, any time I encounter a reference to Slovenia, I’m all over it. I recently found this picture of a Dragon statue in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I don’t know where Ljubljana is, nor how to pronounce it. But since I’m XX% Slovenian, I’m damn proud of it. (more…)
I’m reading a book by Edward de Bono titled, The Happiness Purpose. In it, he states something that I thought was counter-intuitive:
[T]he price of freedom is decision.
This quote, misattributed to George Orwell, gets at the “nut” of the civic role and responsibility of real journalism.
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(Below is blog post. It contains naive ramblings and no great conclusions—and lots of mizpellings and grammatical errors.)
Why is it hard to mix cultures?…What is a culture?
A culture is a collection of people who share certain beliefs and values and, to some degree at least, share ideas on how those values should be expressed. For example, I was raised a Catholic, but I’m not Catholic anymore. To become a Catholic, I adopted Catholic values and beliefs; indeed, to become a member of the Catholic Church I had to profess those values and beliefs in various rituals.
So why did I leave that culture, that community? (more…)
xkcd comic offers some helpful advice on creating memorable but still difficult to hack/guess passwords. (more…)
The original quote from Diane Von Furstenberg is…
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”
But as a male of the species, I prefer this gender-neutral adaptation: (more…)
My former employer, Razorfish (now SapientRazorfish), won a digital marketing award for a fascinating ad/social media campaign they did for Dove, a subsidiary of Unilever. (more…)