“Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just…DO things”. The Joker in The Dark Knight. It is Friday afternoon, about 5PM of Labor Day Weekend. We’re sitting …
Category: Humor
The Mobile Sweat Unit
In the summer of 1997, I was working for Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, TX. As my first foray into product marketing, I was a bit overwhelmed. While cranking away on some spreadsheet, my boss asked to borrow my car since his was in the shop. He was a buttoned-down East Coast prep school guy …
Street Youths…
Schmidt loses his car wheels to a roving band of street youths in the terribly irreverent TV show “New Girl.” With no tires to roll with, Schmidt’s only recourse is to curse this lost generation. Over the years, generational gaps have seemingly separated us from each other. One has only to look at the strictly …
My Final Playlist…
Truth is I have never made a mix tape. Sadly, I never received one either. With as many times as my trusty little heart has been crushed, you’d think at least one tape would have made it into my cassette player. Having a sad mix tape would have come in handy for those inevitable “It’s …
GoPro’s Big Adventure
I loaned my GoPro out to my friend, Andrew Shaber this weekend to do a little Cyclocross race in Nampa, Idaho. When I got into the office this morning, he had the camara sitting there on his desk. Then he proceeded to tell me about how he had looked at the footage and it was …