January 2012
68 posts
“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who...”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
“Never love anyone who treats you like ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Allow yourself to enjoy the journey. Everything you draw or paint does not have...”
– Michele Cooper
Joey: What was that video you posted?
Me: It's all pics from a conference I went to last year. It's the Magento "M".
Joey: What's Magento?
I love my little brother. : )
“The power of authentic purpose moves your whole world forward.”
– Ralph Marston
“Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.”
– Paul Tillich
“Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.”
– Jessica Howell
“This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.”
– Gary Lew
“Every moment is your opportunity, every situation is your starting point.”
– Ralph Marston
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the...”
– Nelson Mandela
Rhonda: Yes, young Jedi.
Me: Does that make you Obi Wan or Yoda?
Rhonda: Makes me Qui-Gon Gin, and you Anakin.
Me: Aw man, but Anakin is a whiny little bratt!
Rhonda: But he grows up to be powerful.
Me: And evil!
Rhonda: Muahahaha.
Me: So what you're saying is you want me to grow up to cause doom and destruction with a voice that sounds like I'm a robot?
Rhonda: Right, with only one arm, too.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Penny: What are you, some kind of nerd?
Leonard: Not some kind of nerd, I am the King of Nerds!
Penny: What does that mean?
Leonard: Uh, it means that if anyone displeases me, I don't help them set up their printer.
"The Recombination Hypothesis." The Big Bang Theory. S5E13.
“Our success happened organically, one opportunity and one counterintuitive...”
– Roy Rubin (@royrubin05), co-founder and CEO of Magento
“At the end of the day, I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m...”
– Mark Batterson
Darren: Sucks to be you.
Me: It's nice to know you care so deeply.
Darren: It's not so much that I care deeply but that I express it shallowly.
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
– Steve Jobs
“Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding — and absolutely essential...”
– Ralph Marston
Bethany: You know what song's stuck in my head?
Me: What?
Bethany: The Lollipop Guild.
Me (singing): We represent the lollipop guild! ...
Bethany: That's the last time I tell you about a song.
Me: I don't know how you tricked me into watching a creepy show.
Darren: It's not that creepy.
Me: It's creepier than I usually watch.
Darren: People got incinerated all the time on Eureka.
Me: By technology.
Darren: Warehouse 13?
Me: That stuff sparkles before it activates!
Darren: So cover the creepy stuff in glitter and you're fine. Good to know.
“As much as we want to believe we can fix out lives in about as many steps as it...”
– Donald Miller
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson
Google Social Search Case Study
I’ll be the first to admit that Google+ drives me insane. Mostly because it locks down all open Google windows for a minimum of 30 seconds every time I open it. Sometimes it locks down my entire browser; likely because I use Chrome.
However, I love how it integrates into everything else Google. For example, my Gmail account now shows all my circles as options for mail filters as well as...
“The world needs dreamers and doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who...”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
“An opportunity isn’t an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.”
– Mark Batterson
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.”
– Lou Holtz
“If you only do what you know you can do—you never do very much.”
– Tom Krause
“Everything seems impossible, until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.”
– Maya Angelou
“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. You have to be...”
– Ken Venturi
“Waiting gives us time to do the things that need to be done.”
– Drew Moore (@_drewmoore)
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the...”
– Jim Rohn
