For her DWTS rumba, Natalie Coughlin got the go-ahead to go all out with partner Alec Mazo. Who gave this approval of sensuality? None other than Alec’s wife, Edyta who was eliminated in Week 1.
The show’s producers had to find ways of getting Edyta more airtime, and the performance introduction was the perfect venue! Can this swimmer be the next Dancing with the Stars champion with Olympic ties?
Okay, so I don’t follow directions when it comes to Starbuck’s new ready brew (instant) coffee called VIA. Instead of pouring the contents of the packet into a cup then adding hot water, I start with hot water already in a cup.
But when you do that, often times the steam from the hot water will react with the VIA coffee, gunking up the mouth of the packet. Once that happens, it’s a hassle to get the VIA out of the packet, taking away the “instant” experience.
To make things simple, why not have a bigger/wider packet size? Oh look, others are complaining about this on the MyStarbucksIdea web site.
Now this is a laptop sleeve that only kicks fiends can appreciate.
Look at all the boxes! Don’t it remind you of my kicks anthology?
New this week on iTunes:
Wired magazine takes a look inside a typical cup of coffee and the ingredients that make it up.
Hmm, coffee contains a bug killer (caffeine), a cockroach pheromone (2-Ethylphenol), a compound giving human feces its odor (Dimethyl disulfide), the taste of butter (Acetylmethylcarbinol), a cavity preventer (Trigonelline), and so much more. No wonder it’s great stuff!!
Ooh, the next “chapter” of the Groundswell will be coming out in 2010, and I’m adding “Harnessing the Groundswell: Drive Your Business With Empowered Employees and Customers” to my book list. Here’s their short description:
Who are these empowered people? They’re employees using simple technologies to solve business problems — but in ways management hasn’t sanctioned. They’re customers, armed with a sea of ambient information and friend connections, who redefine your brand. Either way, empowered individuals are a problem for locked-down and unprepared managers stuck on control. “Harnessing the Groundswell” explains how to enable, select, scale, and socialize this energy — that is, how to embrace empowered individuals and use them to drive your business forward.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Need some Glee-ful inspiration? Watch the preview of the apropos “It’s My Life.”
Got to follow up some leads about possible new “projects” to join. The biggest decision is whether to stay “home-based” or go back out working at customer sites.
Just not sure what to do, but I can’t forget the reason why I came back to the office, to help our organization improve.
Even though Glee is in full swing, you can pre-order the first season of Glee on DVD already!
Thanks to some prodding by @mirthlab, I finally got around to “mobilizing” Pulpconnection. What does that mean? I installed an alternate theme that kicks in when Pulpconnection is viewed by a mobile device like an iPhone or Blackberry. This theme is more compact and will then load faster without all the widget bling that you’d normally get.
Thanks to WPtouch, the mobile version of Pulpconnection looks like this.
Who woulda thought that a trapeze bar or a hula hoop would be the latest ways to get into shape? Read about Jukari Fit to Fly and Hooping.