“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” – Chinese Proverb
Does Your Staircase Take You Up Or Down?
I was watching The Next Iron Chef on TV tonight which happened to be the finale. Chef Mehta ended up losing but what he said at the end was very thought provoking. His metaphor about life was fantastic! Check this out, it blew my mind…he said: “It’s a little disappointing (losing) but…life is like a staircase — you go up, you go down..but you must never think that the staircase only takes you down. You must always think that a staircase only takes you up.”
Greatest Sign Guy Of All Time
Why do we have sign holders anyway? Don’t get me wrong this guy actually gets your attention and I don’t even want to know how long he had to practice to do this but aren’t we becoming numb to this form of marketing? Sure they used to get our attention when it was the “new” thing but does anyone actually say to themselves “hey that sign person is telling me to turn or do something, I’d better do it”? That being said, if you are into this form of marketing this guy is worth every penny. I mean the company he is advertising for is on my blog now right? You know you’ve made it when you get on jeremperson.com let me tell you. 🙂 Or maybe I’m just jealous I can’t do this…
John Lee of Babbacombe
John Lee of Babbacombe, Devon, cheated the hangman’s noose three times in 1885. Sentenced to death for the murder of his employer, Lee survived because on each occasion the trap-door on the gallows failed to open, even though the mechanism was tested before and after and found to be in perfect working order. The authorities knew when they were beaten and Lee’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The White Elephant
A “White Elephant” dates back to the ancient kings of Siam who wanted to punish courtiers without actually appearing to do so. Their ploy was to give the offender a rare albino elephant, knowing that it was an offer which dare not be refused. The poor man was therefore left with something he didn’t want and couldn’t afford to keep.
Tyler Singing With His Halloween DVD From Grandma
I’m In Love With Mr Clean Magic Erasers
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- Left side with a section not yet cleaned
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- Left Side Clean Right Side Dirty
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- Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
I haven’t blogged about this yet but I was cleaning the house today and had to break out the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to get some crayon off of one of Tyler’s chairs where he colors. Barbara, you were right they are great at taking crayon off of the plastic chairs. Any way, I took the chair into the kitchen and saw the kitchen sink which has always been a little on the brown side even though it is supposed to be white. I did a few quick wipes and instantly the water around it turned brown. I scrubbed with it some more and the more I scrubbed the more white the sink got. My old house had tile floors in the main entry way and all of the way back to the kitchen. The magic erasers are great at cleaning the grout between the tile. I’ve also used the erasers on the shower floor and they work wonders there as well. So hopefully you don’t just take my word for it, go out and pick some up today! After all they don’t call him Mr. Clean for nothing!
Digg Sketchbook
Kevin Rose released this picture the other night of an old sketchbook he “dugg out” (haha couldn’t help myself) of some initial Digg designs and ideas. Where do you keep your ideas?
Creative Barcodes
Anyone who knows me knows that I am fascinated with barcodes. I’ve had some ideas in the past; some for what I do for a living and some for personal business ventures. Barcodes are amazingly powerful yet very simplistic. Evidently a design agency in Japan is doing some interesting things with tweaking the design of their barcodes which I loved.
San Francisco 11-14-09
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- Me at Taylor’s
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- Pigeon
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- Lot’s of Sea Lions!
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- Sea Lions
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- Carousel
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- Streets of SF
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- Coit Tower
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- Church at Sunset
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- Tony’s Pizza Sign
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- Tony’s Pizza (not Tony)
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- Tony’s Pizza
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- Funny Costume at Candy Shop
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- Funny T-Shirt at a Candy Shop
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- Nice shot of a church at night
We went to San Francisco yesterday and started things off right by going to Taylor’s which has awesome burgers and sweet potato fries. We surprised our birthday boy at the Motown Madness musical. Motown isn’t my favorite music in the world but I mentioned before going in that as long as I’m not the one singing I’m sure I’ll enjoy it. Little did I know almost half way through the musical they would pull me up on stage to sing and dance. Let me tell you I put up a good fight to try and keep from going on stage but the crowd was applauding so what can you really do at that point.
As you can see I have some awesome moves and even decided to do a move out of turn. Yeah I’m the dweeb who turns when nobody else turns! We got some of it on iPhone video which isn’t the greatest quality but you aren’t supposed to record in the theater so we are lucky we got what we have.
Then after they humiliated me the first time after intermission they came back for more by asking “hey where did that guy from Livermore go?”. They came and made me stand up again and ask what my name is. They said they have never had someone so shy come up on stage so they decided to keep after me. They then asked who was sitting next to me and pulled her up so we could slow dance in front of everyone in the theater. For a wallflower like me it made me turn bright red I’m sure but I kept smiling and tried to make the most of it.
After the musical we went to North Beach for some italian food and decided on Tony’s Pizza. We didn’t know it at the time but it was Tony Pizzano’s restaurant who is the world pizza making champion. Tony was there and we sat right next to the kitchen so we were able to get a few exchanges in with him. Tony was really nice to us and made sure everything was good. We then went to the Mark Hopkins Hotel to see the birthday boy’s hotel room which was very nice. We went up to the Top of the Mark in a sweatshirt and tennis shoes but for the most part they were nice about letting us quickly look around. We then went to get some coffee and then headed back to BART. It was a really nice day, even if I did make a fool of myself.
I’m not sure if I have blogged about this yet but I have my own way of measuring the success of a day. I say if you will remember the day on your death bed it was a good day. So many days pass us by and we simply live them day to day not really making the most of them. I can tell you yesterday was a death bed day!
OK here is the first video of me getting moved to the center of the stage because they were worried about me running off. I’m in the middle of the stage which is good because one of the singers blocks me most of the time.
Oh and last but certainly not least, here is me turning when nobody else turned. I rule at this if you can’t tell. Oh and a little singing.