The Over 50 Flu epidemic, the Ass Concussion and Dong Bang Shin
So. What a weird day. And it started so uneventfully. A little rain. A little wind. A phone interview and writing a couple of posts.
The over 50 flu epidemic. I should have known the day would unravel when my mother calls and leaves a voice mail saying “well, we are in shutdown mode.” The senior complex has had a number of people come down with the flu. They closed down communal gathering areas. And then I receive this email:
Re: Report from Cell Block 8
The building is currently in lock down mode. It is a good thing that you came to visit last week. Several people have become ill with deep chest colds and two ladies have been sent to the hospital. As a result the management has decided to close down the building to visitors and there will be no communal eating until further notice. I think it is a prudent move on their part to stop this bug before it gets out of control. This has just begun today so let’s see how perky I am after a few days of lock down. It may bring back bad memories of when I was “in the Slammer on the Rock”. My daughter asked if I had a tin cup to run across the bars to get the warden’s attention. I think I sold it at my estate sale. Please write but the fuzz reads all incoming and outgoing mail and checks all lumpy pizza deliveries.
Prisoner #000 a.k.a. Ginger Snap
It kind of freaked me out a little how much my mother was enjoying this (only to realize everyone in the frickin’ complex was alive with the buzz of the possibility of the black plague attacking the complex). She has already asked if I could (1) sneak a file into her diabetic cake when I come and visit, (2) eat all the chocolate chip cookies from everyone on the floor who received them but didn’t want them (think maybe 150 cookies per day) and (3) figure out what gmail was because now that everyone is afraid to leave their rooms there is a run on senior citizen emailing (I was tempted to tell her about g-strings but didn’t think it would go over well).
Then. The Ass concussion. I was coming back from an evening run I stopped to talk with someone and found out I know someone who had an ass concussion. For real. Let’s file this one away in the category of “you learn something new every day.” So. Here’s the deal. This guy who was probably too old to be skateboarding anyway wipes out and falls on his ass. Gets back up … staggers .. and passes out. At the hospital they say “well, you have a concussion.” He says, “but I fell on my ass.” They say, “Oh, there is a vein that goes from your ass to your brain and you probably jammed it.” Me. “ok.”
Therefore. He had an ass concussion. (many comments about where his brain resides are rattling thru my head but I was so stunned you could get a concussion landing on your ass I said nothing)
This is the kind of story you can’t make up. Me? Gosh. I would have maybe suggested he fell so hard his brain bounced around enough to get a concussion.
But. An ass concussion!?! Awesome.
But it gets better. Still pondering the ass concussion and wondering whether my mother has stirred up the senior troops so much they have put her in solitary confinement I ended my day with a fine plate of pasta with a light dusting of Virgin Olive Oil and some parmesan and had MYX music channel on.
Then. I see the stupidest video I have ever seen. Ever.
It’s this South Korean band called TVXQ, an acronym for Tong Vfang Xien Qi (for some reason it gets translated as Dong Bang Shin Gi …. Or maybe they just decided to spell their name phonetically for us stupid western civilization folk). Anyway. They are a horrible boy band quintet. And this video for a song called Balloons was fantastically idiotic. So idiotic I watched the whole shitty thing. They all dressed like cats but not like the show Cats just paws and ears and acted goofy.
While I wanted it to be hilariously stupid this was boy band idiotic. I almost lost my appetite but instead laughed my ass off. All I could think of was what the fuck are their children think when they see this fucking video years from now. I mean, c’mon, how do you explain that?
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confidence adults & tweens
May 22, 2012 - 6:34 pm
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So. Sometimes I write about something because I was thinking about it … but them sometimes a picture makes me write. This picture reminded me that a lot of teens & tweens feel this way <in fact … one posted this picture she made>. This picture also reminded made me think about kids & confidence [...]
what is management?
May 21, 2012 - 11:12 am
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“Responsibility for one’s impacts is the oldest principle of the law” – Peter Drucker (New Realities, 1989, p. 87) To me, in today’s business, manager management training is woefully lacking. Training simply equals “results” <with an additional emphasis on doing it while being politically correct and appropriately sensitive – to avoid litigation>. And, no, I [...]
life on a new scale
May 20, 2012 - 10:52 am
Tags: accommodating cultural differences, accommodating cultural differences in advertising, advertising, agency, brand, branding, Business Thoughts, communication, could have been different, depicting women in ads, each region culture has nuances, elevtae the brand to a whole new level, enlightened advertising, enlightened communication, even great ideas need nuance in final execution, for life on a whole new scale, global advertising, good idea, good idea behind campaign, i like the imagery, korean air advertising, learning, managing perceptions, marketing, non visual cues & quirks, nuances matter, our own antics & quirks, something seems slightly off, the people here like this, world does not revolve around american culture
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I have always recognized that sometimes advertising is tough to evaluate because of cultural differences. and possibly because I just finished an international project I am even more aware than usual. Local culture, or even regional culture, has a variety of visual and non visual cues & quirks that if you are not from that [...]
homeless
May 19, 2012 - 2:07 pm
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“People descend into this world by different paths. To live on the streets is akin to standing in the rain: some are better equipped for this than others … but rain falls equally on all.” – Andrew Vachss (author of Haiku a novel about homeless) Well. On my way to work there is a place [...]
catching culture
May 18, 2012 - 8:58 am
Tags: actions today make who i am tomorrow, adidas evrybody runs, Adidas is doing a good job, adidas new world in my view, advertising, advertising focused on women, authentic statement, badge worthy, being cool but functional, brand, branding, brings together diversity, business, Business Thoughts, capture culture and peformance, capturing culture without losing performance, catching cultre in advertising, catching culture, character, communication, consumers are fickle, consumers are illogical, consumers are inconsistent, crating attitudes, creating buying behavior, dificult and elusive ideas, enlightened advertising, enlightened communication, enlightened execution, good job adidas, good use of song in ad, hitting critical sales mass, holy grail of advertising, katy is wacky, katy perry adidas, leadership, learning, managing perceptions, new world in my view, nike has lost their way, performance is not enough, relevant in a non stupid way, respect, sending a positive message, smart planning and assessment, smart wacky, Stuff I Like, superior athletic performance, truth
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Ok. The holy grail of advertising and marketing is to capture culture and performance at the exact right moment. Just catch culture and you are cool <but no one buys your shit>. Just catch performance and you aren’t cool enough <or “badge worthy” enough> to hit sales critical mass. Performance is easy … although many [...]
cell phones and 8 year olds
May 14, 2012 - 5:15 pm
Tags: a generation of concerned citizens, a global education kids initiative, a net education platform, actions today make who i am tomorrow, affecting people’s conflict behavior, aligning generational attitude and technology and consumer trends, augmented reality, augmented storytelling, books, broadcast, building character, business, Business Thoughts, cannot imagine, cell phones, cellphones and kids, cellular industry and reading, change begins in the head, change takes remarkable effort, changed behavior, changing education, character, childhood mediated by technology, children and critical thinking, children out of school, children owning cellphones, children’s education, communication, community individualism, conflict and people, content dissemination trends, content odd man out is books, conversations, creating innovation attitude in children, creating the next generation of thinkers, creating the next generation of thinkers using the web, curiosity is the enemy of ignorance, death of paper, death of paper part 3, decision making, developing cross cultural skills, developing minds of next generation of thinkers, developing social and emotional competencies, digital technology and education, e books, educating using the net, education, education to enlighten, effective teaching globally, encouraging curiosity, encouraging understanding of choices, enlightened conflict, enlightened learning, enlightened teaching, enlightened technology, facebook, freedom of choice, Gen X, Gen Y, generation after millennials, generational ideation, generations, global, global collaboration, Global generation, global generation sociological platform, global respect, Google, Harvard, ignorance, ignorance is the enemy, interpreting morality, jared leto, jared leto free your mind, kindle, knowledge, leadership, learning, lessons, libraries, life, life lessons, literature, little access to cyberspace, love will not change the world, making needed changes to education, marketing, mass mingling impact on Global Generation, measuring exclusion from primary education, measuring generational attitudes, measuring generational behavior, measuring global education, media, meeting the challenges of concentration, millenials, mobile technology impacting education, net enabled education, paper books, paper disintegrates, paper to digital, parenting, peace on facebook, pop up schools, predictions, print, project global generation, redefining children’s education with a global initiative, research, respect, respect for individual choice, responsibility, short term concentration capabilities, social media, social technology, strategy, strength of character to make change, strength of values, Stuff I Like, teaching kids globally, technology and parenting, technology innovation, that i will be tomorrow, the death of libraries, the economist e-communication and society, the growth of the independent library, this i am today, trends, truth, Twitter, twitter triumph of humanity, UNESCO children out of school, using cell technology for education, web based global education, who reads books
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“Adults — digital natives or not — can’t imagine what a childhood mediated by mobile, social technology that didn’t exist 10 years ago is actually like.” – Senior editor The Atlantic magazine I admit. Technology has created a significant new challenge to parenting. I struggle to think of anything since the printing press that would [...]
augmented reality
May 14, 2012 - 5:15 pm
Tags: a generation of concerned citizens, a global education kids initiative, a net education platform, actions today make who i am tomorrow, affecting people’s conflict behavior, aligning generational attitude and technology and consumer trends, augmented reality, augmented storytelling, blurring the lines in a story, books, broadcast, building character, business, Business Thoughts, cannot imagine, cell phones, cellphones and kids, cellular industry and reading, change begins in the head, change takes remarkable effort, changed behavior, character, childhood mediated by technology, children and critical thinking, children out of school, children owning cellphones, children’s education, communication, community individualism, conflict and people, content dissemination trends, content odd man out is books, conversations, creating innovation attitude in children, creating the next generation of thinkers, creating the next generation of thinkers using the web, curiosity is the enemy of ignorance, death of paper, death of paper part 3, decision making, developing cross cultural skills, developing minds of next generation of thinkers, developing social and emotional competencies, e books, educating using the net, education to enlighten, effective teaching globally, encouraging curiosity, encouraging understanding of choices, enlightened conflict, enlightened learning, enlightened teaching, enlightened technology, facebook, freedom of choice, Gen X, Gen Y, generation after millennials, generational ideation, generations, global, global collaboration, Global generation, global generation sociological platform, global respect, Google, Harvard, ignorance, ignorance is the enemy, interpreting morality, jared leto, jared leto free your mind, kindle, knowledge, leadership, learning, lessons, libraries, life, life lessons, literature, little access to cyberspace, love will not change the world, marketing, mass mingling impact on Global Generation, measuring exclusion from primary education, measuring generational attitudes, measuring generational behavior, measuring global education, media, meeting the challenges of concentration, millenials, mobile technology impacting education, net enabled education, new technology, paper books, paper disintegrates, paper to digital, parenting, peace on facebook, pop up schools, predictions, print, project global generation, redefining children’s education with a global initiative, research, respect, respect for individual choice, responsibility, short term concentration capabilities, social media, social technology, strategy, strength of character to make change, strength of values, Stuff I Like, teaching kids globally, technology and parenting, technology innovation, that i will be tomorrow, the death of libraries, the economist e-communication and society, the growth of the independent library, this i am today, trends, truth, Twitter, twitter triumph of humanity, UNESCO children out of school, using cell technology for education, web based global education, who reads books
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Augmented reality is … well … a reality. Augmented Reality: engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what’s real and what’s computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell. On the spectrum [...]
I have loved the stars too fondly
May 12, 2012 - 7:28 am
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“though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light. i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” Sarah Williams “the old astronomer to the pupil” Stars are special things. I do not know anyone who hasn’t stopped … for a moment on a clear night … [...]
observation of the day: people power
May 10, 2012 - 10:12 am
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“A wave of shareholder activism is shining light on ….” – subhead in The Guardian “A new kind of outrage: Investors kick out against inflated pay packages” – headline in The Economist So. The issues America (and many countries) is having at the moment are complex but I wanted to make an observation of one [...]
comment of the day: elections and governing
May 10, 2012 - 10:11 am
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I saw this comment in The Guardian: The French elections lasted for what? A month and a half, now they have a new President. Our elections begin 2 years in advance and don’t end until super tuesday which sounds like a sporting event. Our leaders cannot function because they are always fighting for their jobs [...]
