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Long term happiness is about the attitude I choose to have every day regardless of the circumstances of my life

ross — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:27:44 +0000

Source: Gina Trapani (via Happiness-Project)

Gretchen: What’s something you know now about happiness that you didn’t know when you were 18 years old?

Gina: That getting that job / relationship / paycheck / grade / degree / recognition wouldn’t make me happy long-term. It would give me a shot of happiness around the time it happened, but that long term happiness is about the attitude I choose to have every day regardless of the circumstances of my life.

Teach the Person, Not the Topic

ross — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:17:56 +0000

Source: Natalie Jost (via Godbit Project)

No matter what the venue, everyone has their own set of jargon, words they understand and outsiders don’t. Using jargon alienates people and not only does it confuse them even more, they feel stupid because, based on the fact that you know what those terms mean, they feel they ought to know too. That’s not a good place to be in, on either side of that kind of conversation.

Think about your audience right here, right now and forget for a minute the topic you’re on. Think about who that person (or group of people) is and what world they live in.

If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone?

ross — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:08:51 +0000

Follow-up question: Why haven’t you told them yet?

When in doubt, do the positive

ross — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:06:56 +0000

Source: Jeanne Marie Laskas (via Readers Digest)

Mom’s Best Advice
In high school I wanted to try out for the basketball team. I loved the game but didn’t have the moves. And I wasn’t tight with the cool kids on the team. I sweated the decision and started to chicken out. I told myself, You don’t really want to spend all your free time shooting hoops.

That’s when Momma said, When in doubt, do the positive. Can’t decide whether you should get all dressed up and go to that party? Don’t know if you should “intrude” on a new neighbor with a homemade welcome cake? Worried that an old lady would find you rude for offering to help her with her grocery bags? Do the positive! Go to the party, bake the cake, help the old lady. A life of doing is better than one of regretting what you didn’t dare to do.

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something

ross — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:37:44 +0000

Source: Robert Heinlein (wikipedia)

Egg Butt

ross — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:31:25 +0000

Chris’s double egg sammich looked like a butt, so Kory photoshopped a bent over woman on to it.

Chris: “She was delicious.”

Leno, Letterman and Conan Return Despite Writer’s Strike

ross — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:28:48 +0000

Conan’s beard/profile shot…very presidential

Which one is the evil twin?

Leno returns with guests: Emeril Lagasse (pictured) and Mike Huckabee

Letterman returns with Robin Williams

Dilbert - Evil Genius Secret Lair

ross — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:14:33 +0000

My friend Eric emailed this comic to me this morning — which is pretty funny because all of the ladies I work with are just astounded by the fact that I have two monitors — then later in the morning the girl in the office next to mine brought in the same comic that she had ripped out of the Sunday paper.

dilbert.com

Annibirthary

ross — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:58:25 +0000

Today, some people will celebrate the anniversary of my birth (i.e. my birthday).

I don’t necessarily care for my birthday or any day that results in me garnering additional attention.

As I was sitting around a few days ago I started thinking… “It’s not really my birthday. I only technically had one ‘birthday’ - the day I was born. So…actually, it’s the anniversary of my birth.”

As I thought about this for a little while longer and tried to sing “Happy Anniversary of your birth to you…Happy Anniversary of your birth to you…” something just wasn’t quite right. Then it just popped — it’s not my birthday — it’s the anniversary of my birth… it’s my ANNIBIRTHARY.

From this moment on I will now refer to everyone’s “birthday” as their Annibirthary.

On a side note - my friend Dylan won for the best email of the day, with this:

From: dylan
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 8:16 AM
To: ross
Subject: 27

Famous musicians who died at age 27:

Robert Johnson – Bluesman, poisoned

Brian Jones – Rolling Stones founder, drowned in a swimming pool

Jimi Hendrix – Guitarist, sleeping pill overdose

Janis Joplin – Singer, drug overdose

Jim Morrison – Singer, possible overdose

Kurt Cobain – Nirvana frontman, suicide

Thank goodness you aren’t a talented musician addicted to drugs.

iTunes Album Art Poster

ross — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:03:56 +0000

A while back I sent Dylan a link to instructions on how to create a poster of all your iTunes album art.

He finally decided to give it a try and spent 2 1/2 hours to create this collage.

Check it out at instructables.com