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TSF9: We’re Next, We’re Now – NOW ONLINE!

Posted on April 30, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments

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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 9:  We’re Next, We’re Now

The way things are today does not mean they need to stay that way. We can influence the future of music. Our interview with Tammy Erickson, author of Whats Next Gen X? confirms that we can upgrade the quality of professional lives. Listening to the music of Trixie Whitley brings us into the here, right now..

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Meandering Rant on How We Can Influence the Future of Music by Patty

Book Report: A Conversation with Tammy Erickson, the author of a new book about the challenges Generation X face in the workplace entitled, “What’s Next Gen X”

Music Segment: Trixie Whitley with Daniel Lanois in Black Dub

What?? Facebook CEO Doesn’t Care About Privacy??

Posted on April 29, 2010 | By Christian | No Comments

From the University of Calgary

Say it ain’t so.  For everyone who thought that posting their lifes events and daily doings was somehow “safe” on Facebook … Surprise!  Here is an interesting “off the record” discussion with Facebooks CEO and his feelings about your security on Facebook.

Time -A Meandering Rant from TSF 8

Posted on April 22, 2010 | By Christian | No Comments

I think I suffer from the same malady many of us face today.  Time.  Its like a drug.  There isn’t enough of it, I’ve lost track of it, is it the right time, its running out, I cant afford it, and I am wasting it.  You get the point.

Now, none of this is new to most of us.  Every once in a while we look in the mirror but don’t see that 18yr old that we imagine we still look like.  Full of youth and vigor and lacking the lines and gray hairs we see today.  But I can deal with getting older, I really don’t have a problem with it.  What I do have a problem with is that I am not doing all of the things I always envisioned I would have done by now.  That’s not to say I won’t, its just…  I am a bit off schedule.  This is my problem.

I wont bore you with the laundry list of things I thought I would have done by now, but many of them are typical… seeing Europe, sailing the Caribbean, having that corner office, stuff like that.  I don’t think it’s because I’m not capable of doing these things, but haven’t had the time to really devote to getting to them.  Stuff keeps happening and it’s never the right time. Read more

Nature? pffff! We could do better.

Posted on April 20, 2010 | By Patty Pino | No Comments

From: Joe
To: Patty Pino
Subject: Nature? pffff! We could do better
 
 
University of Guelph in Ontario has created  a new eco-friendly “Enviropig”!

Mmmm...capitalism.

The new earth friendly pigs can now produce excrement without damaging the environment! Yaaay, we’re all saved by science!

…Since when the F@#$ have animals craping been BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!!

p.s.  as you might have guessed, in reality, the only environment being damaged are the confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), which is a creepy story unto itself. 

It seems to me like another finger in the dam of profit-streamlining living things AKA our food supply.

This has been an angry moment with-
Joe
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Read more about what Joe was miffed about at “Genetically Engineered ‘EnviroPig’ Waiting For US Approval“  For other frightening food news, check out this clip from The Daily Show.

~pp

iPad Envy

Posted on April 14, 2010 | By Christian | No Comments

From "We Blog Cartoons"

Alright, I admit it.  I have iPad envy… and its not because my iPhone is small.  Well, maybe it is.  Anyway, I was out the other night chilling with the family having some sushi and the table next to me of college kids had a new iPad and were showing it off.  And damn!  It is as cool as it looks on TV.  I haven’t actually had the chance to hold one and play with it but it does look seriously cool.

One thing that can go away is the constant media attention to it.  I can’t turn on the TV or radio without someone talking about iPad this or iPad that.  Its everywhere! Which is probably why they have sold 500k of them already.

Does everyone who writes and article or has a blog feel compelled to write about the thing?  Oh wait.  Anyway, I don’t think I will be able to get a P.O. from the wife to get one anytime soon so I will have to learn to live with envy.

And my iPhone is not small.

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