Meeting Tracker Application

From time to time, you may find yourself in meetings where others lose track of time when they are talking. Whether it is a one on one meeting or staff meeting, some people have diarrhea of the mouth. They talk in circles and conclude what they are going to say 3 or 4 times before shutting up. Some people like hearing themselves talk and look for any excuse to say something. However, you have to sit there and listen while maintaining your insanity.

So, as a antidote to these situations, I developed a concept for an iPhone application that would allow you to time people when they talk in a meeting or takeover a phone conversation. You can then track how much of everyone's time they monopolized. Below is a screen shot of my prototype. I used the Firefox extension called Pencil Sketch to develop it.

Anytime someone is speaking, you simply push the "Speaking" radio button to start timing the person talking. It will keep track of the time the person talked for that session and you can keep a profile of total time talked over the course of several sessions or meetings.

Future versions would allow you to even track how much money this person is wasting you or the company for every minute they talk. You can also get an idea of the average talk time of a single person in a meeting. I might also include a dating system, that would create a graph letting you know which day of the week a given person is most likely to speak the most.

Would you buy this App for $0.⁹⁹?

Are there any developers or graphic artist out there who would want to help me out? This may already exist somewhere - I'm not sure.

Poop Free Zones

Image by philosophygeek via Flickr

Just like the H.O.V. (High Occupancy Vehicle) lane on the Nashville Interstates during rush hours, I think there should also be P.F.B. (poop-free bathroom) hours.

It terrible to walk into a crowded restroom and wait in line while someone is in the stall stinking up the room. I realize you have to go, when you have to go, but perhaps they could go somewhere else during posted hours?

I Love the World

The Discovery Channel is one of my favorites but whether or not I like them, I still really liked the commercial they did.

"...Boom De Ya Dah, Boom De Ya Dah,..."

Nashville Sounds [Good]

There's a little baseball team that's been around since the 70's called the Nashville Sounds. Currently they are the minor league team affiliated with Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers.

If you've lived in the greater Nashville area for very long, then you've heard of the Sounds. Odds are most people don't know very much about the players, the coaches, or the owners. In fact, most people probably don't know that the sounds currently lead their division in the Pacific Coast League, much less do they even know what the PCL even is.

I'll admit, that having lived in middle Tennessee now for the last 14 years, I've only known the Sounds by name and been to a handful of games. However, with the recent news of drug use in the majors and teams shelling out big bucks for players, I've started to appreciate the minor league level a lot more. Thanks to my friends over at the old ball game, I've started to pay attention a little more to players and stats of our local team.

There's something different about following the Sounds compared to following the Titans and Predators. I know the crowds aren't as big and the stakes aren't as high, but going to a Sounds game is being as much a part of Nashville as any other sporting event. Maybe it has something to do with the rich history of baseball in Tennessee going back to 1901 when the Nashville Vols were organized. The sounds aren't Atlanta or St. Louis and they aren't MLB, but it's what we have. And what we have is what we should appreciate.

I hope you'll embrace your local team. It's cheap. It's relaxing. It's fun. Go Sounds!