Smiley Cookies

Those of you from the Pittsburgh or PA, OH, WV Tri-State area know the wonders of an Eat n' Park Smiley Face cookie.  It brings back childhood memories of birthday breakfasts with my dad, and late night visits as a teenager.

For those of you not fortunate enough to have an Eat n' Park near by (aka me, now that I have converted to the southern life), there is a way to order the cookies online and even make your own custom cookie! My mom once sent me a box for Valentine's day and it was a fun surprise and a little 'taste of home'.

Something to keep in mind as a unique gift!

Seth's Blog: Accept all substitutes

Great point by Seth Godin below - It's getting harder and harder to stand out and be one of a kind, find your unique quality, content, or service and run with it (before someone else makes a free version)!

Commerce is about pricing, and pricing is about scarcity. Scarcity, of course, demands no easy substitutes.

Some news websites are foolishly putting up paywalls, requiring readers to pay by the day or the year to see what's there. This is foolish because substitutes are so easy to find. If I can't get to the Times of London or Time magazine, no problem, I'll find the same news (or almost the same news) somewhere else.

This is the mistake that book publishers are making on the Kindle. I was mildly interested in the new biography of Henry Luce. But it's $19 on the Kindle. That's outrageous in a world where there are plenty (more than I can ever read) of great biographies for less than $10 on this very same device. (In fact, I can buy the biography of his forgotten partner, the actual founder of Time, for $4 in paperback or $10 on the kindle.) Is a biography about someone else a perfect substitute? Not if you're writing your dissertation about Luce, no, it's not. But the publishers seek a broader audience than that, don't they?

The internet has dramatically widened the number of available substitutes. You don't have to like it, but it's true. That means you have to work far harder to create work that can't easily be replaced.

Look both ways

A quirky street sign in Salt Lake City. Simple and to the point. Made me smile!


I do...love this! - via Style Me Pretty

Again, my new addiction to wedding/design blogs, I apologize. But I just love the dress, colors, atmosphere of this whole wedding - the blue is beautiful!

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2010/07/19/wedding-gown-bridesmaids-dresses-by-c...

Pocket sized wisdom.

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance, count and give thanks for your blessings every day.

--- on a piece of paper John Wooden carried with him, from his dad

Tear n' Share...or not

I am upset with my beloved Peanut M&M's.

They are my stand-by road trip/travel snack food (alongside a Diet Coke = perfection)

But I got very upset today as I went to purchase my favorite larger Tear n' Share size (I always state that though it tells you to share, I am very possessive of my M&Ms and will not follow the preschool golden rule).  The new packaging now says boldly "Sharing - two serving". Ok we might as well just put "You are a fatty if you finish the whole thing" on the front.  Now I feel even more guilty about not sharing and am forced to face the fact that there are a LOT of M&Ms to be consumed in that one bag (calorie count is glowing in neon green on the back).

Alas, I am about to finish the last few in the bag....guilty, but satisfied! 

Always connected, even in the air - Digital Dialogues

Quoted in @LauraA87's Collinson Media blog post - anddd now posting this blog entry from the air too!

As I type this, one of my good friends is on a flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City. She’s currently at 38,000 feet in the air. How do I know this?

She just tweeted it.

Her tweet read “Hello from 38,000 feet! Thanks @gogoinflight and @delta! So cool.”

Wireless access in the skies is relatively new but what’s even more recent are the applications that can be accessed in the air. Just yesterday, Foursquare enabled the new Mile High badge, which you receive when you check in on a Gogo Inflight Wifi enabled flight, such as the one my friend is currently on.

To get Gogo, connection prices range from $4.95 for flights up to 1.5 hours and an unlimited account is currently on sale for $34.95 (with a discounted first month) for $19.95.

Now there really is no excuse for not getting work done on a flight. Just remember not to take out your stress on the passengers sitting next to you…

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