end of jet lag?

Something I recently came across...

If there is anything to help lessen the effects of air travel bring it on!

FlyRight was developed by Ted Ray, a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in Mountain View, CA. It is an all-natural herbal jet lag remedy in an easy-to-use liquid form. FlyRight helps you adjust to new time zones, avoid jet lag, and protect you from airborne pathogens.

Hitting your Productivity Targets without GTD

In my quest to find the perfect project management system I stumble across: UNO (Universal Organizer) from the site "Geekpreneur". Who needs GTD?

It took David Allen about 250 pages to explain his Getting Things Done productivity system. You’ll have to read each page at least twice to understand it, spend several hours wondering how to make it work and fiddle around with 43 folders before realizing you don’t need a book to teach you how to procrastinate.

I plan on trying this for the next project I am involved with.
Give it a look:
Easy Organizing with UNO

There must be a pony in here somewhere!

Joke- This is a great one for all of the eternal optimists

There are twin boys of five or six. Mom was worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.

First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."

Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere"

Words to live by

A must read/see--- "Last Lecture"

I don't know if any of you have seen or heard about Randy Pausch. Randy is a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Randy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given 6 months to live. It has now been 7 months.

Professor Pausch decided to give a "last lecture". The lecture was recorded and virally taken off via youtube.com. Over 10,000,000 people have viewed the "last lecture".

The story is incredibly moving. ABC is actually running the entire lecture tonight at 10:00pm (pst).

In this day and age it is very refreshing to see someone speak from the heart and with no agenda.

I have seen the lecture and cannot recommend it enough.

Great book, a must read

I stumbled upon a book last week called “Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets” by Sudhir Venkatesh. I can't recommend this book enough. I enjoyed the book so much I reached out to Sudhir to let him know how much I liked the book. Sudhir was nice enough to respond to my email. In addition he had a documentary, Dislocation, available.

I like Thomas Friedman's "Flat World". It allowed me to reach out to a great person and a fantastic writer.

From Publishers Weekly
Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world of the Windy City's urban poor. As introduced in Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestseller, Freakonomics, Venkatesh became involved with the Black Kings—and their charismatic leader J.T.—as a first-year doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Sent to the projects with a multiple-choice test on poverty as his calling card, Venkatesh was, to his surprise, invited in to see how the drug dealers functioned in real life, from their corporate structure to the corporal punishment meted out to traitors and snitches. Venkatesh's narrative breaks down common misperceptions (such as all gang members are uneducated and cash rich, when the opposite is often true), the native of India also addresses his shame and subsequent emotional conflicts over collecting research on illegal activities and serving as the Black Kings' primary decision-maker for a day—hardly the actions of a detached sociological observer. But overinvolved or not, this graduate student turned gang-running rogue sociologist has an intimate and compelling tale to tell.

http://www.amazon.com/Gang-Leader-Day-Sociologist-Streets/dp/1594201501

All I Want for Christmas is Bondage Barbie

Thank God Christmas comes but once a year. Its pretty much all my patience can handle. The idea of assembling various presents took an interesting turn this year, something I previously had not seen. This year, the year of Barbie (and Achy Breaky Montana), had me removing said Barbie from her box with extreme frustration. Every square inch of Barbie was either wired or taped to some form of cardboard. Was this to prevent someone from stealing Barbie? Considering the Barbie demographic (ages 4-12?) is all of this security really necessary?

aaaa little bit of help here...

I am so disgusted with our current state of democracy. We hire politicians to make decisions to help us and mankind (at least it used to work that way). Since late 2001 the political system has been broken (some would question if it had ever worked). We have two parties that will not speak to one another, unless you count the screaming done on the various *news* channels.

Talk about being stuck in a rut, this is ridiculous. I want a leader that can unite the parties, get people talking, compromising, making decisions so that there is a planet left for my children to enjoy.

I do not see the above as an unreasonable request. Is it?

I hope everyone does learn about the candidates in our upcoming election. If you choose to wait to the last minute and have a computer make your decision, based on your beliefs, it will align you with the candidate that shares your values and outlook. The site is called The Candidate Calculator. Do me a favor though... please do your own research beyond "the calculator". If nothing at all the calculator points you in the right direction.

Now go vote for Obama. Why? at this point I feel that he is a person that has not been jaded by the political system (yet). This could do the most good. Some people laughed when Californians elected the "Govenator", but if you look at the results he has actually had an impact, blurring the lines between right wing and left wing agendas. If he were eligible to run for president I would consider him also.

For the record I would say I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal (though my father says you cannot be both). The hell with it, WHY NOT?!