Not That You Asked

Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain

Powerful message from bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin about finishing what you start.  Original post here from the99percent.com.

Enjoy!

Before & After: Old Truck

My friend Annalivia has a great photoblog site where she’s been showcasing before and after work using Photoshop.  I loved looking at the things she’s done making her great photos even better.  This inspired me to tinker a bit as well.

I chose a shot from sledding in February at Joie’s Uncle’s ranch. To the left, you see the top photo, which is the original file, the bottom is the photoshopped file.

The knockout / cropping here is shoddy, but not bad for :15 or so of work. I munged saving my file, so probably won’t redo this more crisply on the knockout, but aside from that, pretty happy with it!

129 Zipgun Gloucester Gluck

129 Zipgun Gloucester Gluck

Originally uploaded by Ape Lad

Someone I know has started signing off in their email messages to me as “Zipgun Gloucester Gluck”.

Since I’ve no idea what that is, I Googled it. That didn’t help me much. It did leave me to this cool photo illustration.

Enjoy – and if you know what Zipgun Gloucester Gluck means, let me know!

No Facebook?

So, I’m in Boston, at a reasonable hotel – the John Hancock Conference Center. The WiFi for rooms here is busted – understandable to some degree – these old buildings must be tough to retrofit. That said, I have a signal booster or hotspot on the wall *right outside my room* yet I can’t get on the network. Ugh.

So, I’m in the business center. Fine. Aside from not being able to sit here in my skivvies if I want… I do my work email, etc… and then I go to check facebook – uh… what? No Facebook allowed? Why?

Maybe it is just too late but I don’t get it. It isn’t an adult or offensive material thing. Bandwidth maybe? Hmmm… I’ve heard of no wifi, or wifi trouble, but selective filtering of social network sites – is that customer friendly? Sorry JHC, I probably won’t be coming back. That’s just weird.

Go Beyond with 10Beyond

My friend David Russell, Chief Inspiration Officer at 10Beyond, is doing great things with his team at 10Beyond, a new, innovative way for all of us to support our cause – and at the same time spread the word and encourage others to do the same.  See below email I received from David, to me as a 10Beyond user… won’t you consider joining the Core 100 today for your cause?

BTW, here is my current tag I use in my email:

The note from David Russell:

Tom, can you spare a dollar a day?

May Yip Harburg forgive me for butchering a line from his famous Depression era theme song, “Brother, can
you spare a dime?” but in the spirit of hard economic times and corporate transparency, I’ll risk the backlash in hope that you’ll respond to my request for a favor. I’m asking, begging, pleading with you to spare $1 a day for one month in support of your favorite nonprofit. Ok, there is a catch. I want you to make your donation through 10BEYOND.com and be a part of our CORE100 group of users. We need your help to gain the critical mass we need to begin to make a real difference to nonprofits all over the USA. By making your gift through 10BEYOND.com, not only will we send ninety-two cents of every dollar to your nonprofit, but we’ll also give you a cool way to spread the word about your nonprofit with every email message you send, using customized ema il “tags” that indicate your support for that organization. Next, we’ll report to you the impact your donation has made throughout your online network of peers – we call it your Influence. For example, if you inspire 10 people to give as you have, and each of those 10 inspires 10 others, you will have directly influenced 100 people to give $3,000 or more to a nonprofit cause – all because you put a tag in your email. Making a difference is now as easy as sending an email. More than simply joining a cause, 10BEYOND.com lets you put your money where your message is – I call it PYMWYMI – a goofy way to remind folks that anyone can join a cause, but it takes PYMWYMI (pronounced pim-wim-ee) to make a real difference in the budgets of nonprofits who depend on actual money, not just fans, to carry out their work.

So please, spare a dollar a day for your favorite cause today. If you have questions about how 10BEYOND.com works, just click around on our website for the answers, or email me personally at drussell at 10beyond.com. By the way, you can help build my own Influence by clicking my tag below. I’ve customized it with a photo of my son and our loved and missed family dog, Chap. Thanks for your help. –

David W. Russell, Founder/CEO