I thought this was a really cool picture. I wonder what it would have been like to stand there and watch it sweep over you.
Poor Pepper, You Had it Comin'
When I was around age 7, a lady at church gave us a black spaniel named Pepper. Pepper wasn’t what you’d call a “good dog.” Pepper wasn’t what you’d call a “smart dog” either. He like to do two things; jump on people and chew up stuff. Everything we had outside, had to be put up off the ground or Pepper would ruin it. He’d eat water hoses, the plastic wheels on our big wheels, lawn chairs, etc…
About the time we got Pepper, was about the same time my dad became fire chief for our community volunteer fire department. One Wednesday afternoon the fire department got a call. My dad took off in his new fire chief helmet to take care of business. Even at age 7, we loved to watch dad race up our half-mile driveway with the little red light flashing on the dash board of the red and white striped Dodge van. It was so cool to see someone drive up the driveway that fast.
Anyway, when dad got back, we were in rush to make it to Wednesday night Bible study. So, without thinking he quickly laid his gear on top of the metal trash can in the carport, ran inside, got cleaned up, and then we all hurried off to the church building.
That’s right. While we were gone, Pepper pulled down Dad’s brand new fire chief helmet and went to town on it. As we returned home and pulled around the corner of the carport, there was Pepper and the 10 different pieces of the fire helmet. Dad was furious.
He slammed on the breaks as mom, my brother, and me, looked on in fear of what Dad would do to Pepper. He yelled “stay in the car!”
So, we did.
He got out, went over to the metal trash can where his stuff had been laying and grabbed the can along with the lid. Pepper, being the stupid dog that he was, ran up to dad smiling foolishly as a dog might do and jumped up to greet him. That’s when dad grabbed him by the back of the neck and flung him in to the trash can. Veins started popping out of Dad’s neck as he put the lid on. He rattled and banged the trash can all around the carport. He’d lift up over his head and then slam it into the brick columns holding up the carport. He then grabbed a shovel and started beating the crap out of the trash can. Then he continued banging it on the ground some more. Inside the car we all looked on in horror. Nervously I asked, “Momma, is Dad going to kill Pepper?”
That’s about the time Dad stopped his torture of Pepper. What happened next was about the smartest thing pepper ever did in his short life. He barreled out of the trash can and took off around the house in fear of his life. Too bad for Pepper that he didn’t learn his lesson. The next day Pepper chewed up another water hose. A few days later, we came home from school and Pepper wasn’t there.
We learned a lot about my Dad that night. He is capable of anger and stronger than we thought.
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Cake Decorating
The GinBlog has a funny story about getting a cake from Wal-Mart.
Some people that work here had a going away party the other day for a woman that is leaving.
One of the supervisors called a Walmart and ordered the cake. he told them to write: “best wishes Suzanne” and underneath that write “we will miss you”. here’s the cake that was delivered:
Marketing to the Social Web
If you are trying to figure out the best way to get started with marketing in the Web 2.0 world, you might want to check out Larry Weber’s Marketing to the Social Web. The book does a good job of laying down some basics that you need to know as a marketer but it also creates some natural questions that would lead to some good discussions with your marketing team.
Weber identifies and discusses four areas of the web. (1) Reputation aggregators (Search Engines). (2)Blogs. (3) E-communities. (4) Social Networks .
Father Knows Less: Or Can I Cook My Sister
For my birthday a few weeks ago, my wife gave me Father Knows Less or: “Can I Cook My Sister?” by Wendell Jamieson. The book was a fun little read that attempts to answer unique questions that kids come up with. As I was reading it, I was thinking of a lot of the questions I had as a child. As an adult the answers seem so obvious, but as a kid they were really mind boggling questions. It also occurred to me that kids can ask some pretty intuitive questions as well. Even questions that make what we do as adults seem pretty stupid. I’m not going to give you any examples. You can just read the book.
Basically, Jamieson goes in search for answers to questions kids have by going to a source that is an actual person who works in a field that is related to the question. He doesn’t get the answer from the internet, books, or other methods of research, but he gets it “straight from the horse’s mouth?” In fact, that is one of the questions…What does “straight from the horse’s mouth mean?”
You can also learn more about the book at http://www.fatherknowslessbook.com.
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