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Chuggly bubbly

January 23, 2009

I want to hire this guy to do my 1-second. Call me!
Its the old Burma Shave road signs. Always in fashion. Always works.

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Celebrating clever

January 22, 2009

This is really clever! And the users now have a piece of artwork they can hang on their fridges.

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Round up all the web geeks and pelt them with pebbles

January 12, 2009

I just spent the last hour of my life fighting with some CSS that works perfectly in Safari and MESI 7.0, but not in MSIE 6.0 or the “standards compliant” Firefox whatever version it is now. Since I am working pre-coffee, pre-office hours from a laptop on my kitchen table, I don’t have the luxury [...]

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Some things I know

December 20, 2008

I just got done speaking with an American Express rep to pay my bill. I had to call them because I missed the bill pay window between 3:00-7:00am where their web site will actually work to pay my bill.
It got to think about stuff I “know” to be true, even though other dogs swear they [...]

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What would you do if you had $1 million dollars?

December 10, 2008

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

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Stuff lost in translation

November 28, 2008

I read this story and was horrified. Not at the fact that 200 shoppers would break down a WalMart door and stampede a man to his death, but by two statements made by Walmart.

Wal-Mart representative Dan Fogleman called the incident a “tragic situation” and said the victim came from a temporary agency and was doing [...]

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Happy Eating Day

November 27, 2008

Happy Eating Day, everyone! Oh, I know, our American friends are celebrating Thanksgiving but let’s call the holiday what it really is.
A few years ago, a friend of mine spent August through January in Europe and called me on Thanksgiving, very much depressed they didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Despite his best efforts, he could not convince these Europeans [...]

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I went and Elfed myself!

November 16, 2008

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Kinda goofy and not quite made for dog faces, but here is the DogWalkBlog crew all getting into the holiday spirit!
Left to right in order of appearance: Charlie, Lady, Bongo, Rufus and Sallie.
Enjoy!

Posted by email from rufus’s posterous

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How to profit from stupid and sloth

November 14, 2008

I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. So do hundreds of my neighbors and I know exactly who they are.
The WSJ gets delivered to my front door every morning by a carrier with the Dayton Daily News. About a year ago, I noticed that the mailing label in the upper right hand corner of my copy of [...]

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We didn’t start the fire either

October 13, 2008

A couple weeks ago, Ryan Healy wrote a blog post about how Baby Boomers screwed up the world and how GenY is going to “fix” it. After turning it over in my 40+ brain a bit (Boomers like to think things through before yapping off; part of our charm) here are some observations about the [...]

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Grow your own roots

August 29, 2008

I was walking along the back road at the MetroPark and noticed this row of posts that looked like telephone poles, cut off about five feet high. On top of many of them were these little trees that started to grow in the rotting out center of the posts.
These young trees that are growing [...]

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The kids are alright!

August 3, 2008

I was walking along on Friday and I hear these voices from around the corner. “Mow that lawn straight!” “Don’t talk to me, keep working,” “Turn that mower around,” “Watch the edge,” “Mow AROUND the bush, not in it.” etc…
As I turned the corner, we saw two kids, 12-13 years old. One was mowing [...]

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Northmont hires a leader?

July 3, 2008

I was reading the Englewood Independent yesterday and a sidebar article caught my eye. Northmont has hired a new superintendent, Douglas Lantz, formerly the superintendent from Franklin City Schools. Great! New blood, fresh leadership, a focus on building the human infrastructure of tomorrow…
But, then I get to Linda Blum’s quote. For the people who have [...]

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Happy “Bring your dog to work day”

June 19, 2008

Friday, June 20 is “Bring your dog to work” day
Rufus is wishing every dog a happy “Bring your dog to work day.” It is nice to see how the other half lives when we’re sleeping alone on the coach at home!

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Trying to find normal

June 11, 2008

Today, I spent the afternoon curled up alone in my office, working on stuff. Sometimes the phone rang and I answered it, but mostly I did the small things that I used to do when it was just me.
I miss me.

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Scott McClellan from a dog’s point of view

May 31, 2008

There is a lot of talk about Scott McClellan’s new book. Comments from it range of “now, we know the truth” to “he is bitter” to … oh, who really cares. Just everyone shut up already. If you want, buy and read the book, if not, just quit talking like you know anything.
Here is the [...]

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Memorial Day

May 22, 2008

As I was lifting my leg to bless the Englewood Independent lying on my doorstep this morning, the front page article caught my eye. So, I bent down to read it before soaking it. The main headline read “Memorial Day: Remembering those who preserve freedom.”
It was a good article about Air Force Capt. Bob Everdeen [...]

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Appeasing the under-educated white guy

May 18, 2008

Since Hillary’s win in North Carolina last Tuesday, the “news cycle” has been all about how Barack Obama is going to get the “under-educated, white man” vote. After watching news story after news story on this, a very large question suddenly dawned on me:
When did this country get to the point where the under-educated, white [...]

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Me working like a dog on a Friday night

May 10, 2008

This is me working like a dog on a Friday night. Hey, the job pays nothing!

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The real death of the Dayton Daily News

April 20, 2008

For those of you who may not know, I was with the Dayton Daily News from 1998-2002. It was perhaps the most meaningful period of my life, in which I learned how to write objectively, think independently, treasure really, really talented people around me, learned how to change the world with little more than a [...]

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