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Nice Hat!
Checkout what BD00 wore for halloween this year:
It was fun being wheeled around the neighborhood in my fake hospital bed. I got tons o’ candy from many compassionate people. Plus, some kind soul set up a paypal account to help pay for my treatment. Contributions are streaming in from around the globe. W00t! and Ka-ching!!!!
Frightful And Sugarful
Boo!!!!!! King Morrie and his serf BD00 wish you all a very frightful and sugarful Halloween. Moo Hah Hah!
Creative Writing Challenge
I’ve probably made the request before, but it’s time to make it again. Given an arbitrary graphic to kindle your imagination, write and share an accompanying story that gives it some kind of meaning to you.
Are you ready? Here’s the picture I’ve randomly poached from my archives for you to bring to life:
So, what are you waiting for, dear reader? Don’t be shy. Give it a go and submit your Pulitzer prize candidate in the comments section. There’s a free BD00 FAI T-shirt (sorry, X-Large only) in the offing to the winner – if you actually want one. 🙂
Grateful For Gratitude
For today’s post, I felt the need to lock BD00 away for just a bit and share this twitversation with y’all. I may have to delete it when the bastard breaks the lock and sees what I’ve done to his blasphemous blog. D’oh!
The title of this post somehow reminds me of the old cereal commercial: “Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs!“.
Photobomb!
With teammate Corey P.’s wedding date looming on Saturday, we broke out the old ball-and-chain and cuffed him to it for the day. If you haven’t guessed, the name of his fiancee is Katrina.
And yes, that’s the inimitable BD00 in the background doing what he does best – mucking up the worx like a juvenile delinquent .
Tradition and Progress
Continuing on with a series of posts fueled by the inspirational content in Scott Berkun’s newly minted “The Year Without Pants“, let’s explore the relationship between tradition and progress:
There is nothing wrong with tradition until you want progress: progress demands change, and change demands a reevaluation of what the traditions are for and how they are practiced…. The responsibility of people in power is to continually eliminate useless traditions and introduce valuable ones. An organization where nothing ever changes is not a workplace but a living museum. – Scott Berkun
In poorly led institutions, as the number of management (“management” is simply a euphemism for “control“) layers increases, new “special interest” traditions are continuously introduced into the environment whilst old and useless rituals are rarely eliminated. Policies, directives, processes, procedures, taxes, fees, laws – pick your poison. The pile of behavior constraining rules just gets bigger and bigger, suffocating all intrinsic motivation and instilling learned helplessness. Damn, that Kafka dude got it right. So did Ackoff:
It is easier to start something new than it is to stop something old – Russell Ackoff.
Uncle Fester
I just finished browsing through some of the 130 draft posts I have stashed down in the catacombs of my WordPress site.
Most of these zombies, seeded with partially formed ideas rooted in a mix of direct personal experiences and wild speculations (exactly like my published posts), won’t ever see the light of day. Unlike my published posts, I couldn’t close the deal on these pesky little drafts – even after circling back to them sometimes 3-4 times.
Since I have drafts that date way back to 2009, I should prolly sh*tcan at least the dinosaurs hatched before 2010.
Maybe I will indeed go on a draft killing spree, but maybe not. I just may let my little draftlings continue to fester down in the dungeons a bit longer. Who knows, the next time I go mining for ideas for my next world-changing post, one of these fugly ducklings may convince me to finish what I started and bring it to life.
POP! Whoosh! Pfft!
An integral part of my almost-daily gym workout is doing push ups with the aid of a balance ball. The sequence of events progresses as follows:
Well, yesterday things didn’t go as planned. As I was rolling across the top of the ball to get into the push-up-ready position, I heard a loud POP! I then proceeded to crash onto the mat:
The diagram doesn’t do the event justice. It wasn’t a gradual fall from grace. Since the ball was thin-skinned (like BD00), it was a fast crash. As you might surmise, a long and hearty LOL! was shared by all who witnessed the event.
Since the World Gym that I go to is open 24 X 7, it has 8 cameras distributed all around the facility. I’ve asked the owner to please sift through the video coverage and clip out my “ball-busting” segment. If/when she gets the video snippet, I’ll try to post it here so you can get a big LOL! out of it too.
When I Was Born
Last Thursday, I went to the fabulous Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester NY to watch the opening round of the PGA golf championship. In prepping for the trip, I flipped through my considerable collection of gaudy Loudmouth golf shorts to pick out the pattern I would wear. In short order, I decided to to wear my cherry bombs.
As you might guess, I received lots of comments while cruising the course all day among tens of thousands of other people. Most of them were along the lines of “cool shorts” – especially from young kids. One dude asked me if I lost a bet, to which I replied “how did you know?“. Another guy asked me “when did you decide that you just don’t care?“. After a quick LOL, I told him “I don’t know exactly when, but perhaps it was when I was born“.
Resistance And Lack
In “FAA’s air traffic modernization efforts face obstacles”, the US Transportation Department‘s Inspector General (IG) stated this finding:
“The FAA’s culture was resistant to the type of significant change needed to achieve NextGen and lacked a sense of urgency.”
Yawn. A culture resistant to change and lacking a sense of urgency? WTF and LOL. That can be said for just about any behemoth public or private org in the world. Resistance and lack are baked-in behaviors of people ensconced in hierarchically structured command-and-control systems where politics rule the roost and merit goes unacknowledged (except in management circles).
You gotta love the job of “Inspector General“. These dudes aren’t expected to create any value and they get to trash struggling taxpayer-funded projects in front of congress. Just think about it. If they don’t piss all over the projects they “inspect“, then they would be perceived as not doing their job. Me thinks the job of IG could be perfect for BD00 if he wasn’t so enamored with software development.
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WTF?
Meh!
D'oh!
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