Virtual Water Cooler Talk
Last Friday morning I was at the Coeur d’Alene Online Marketer’s Group monthly meetup at Calypso’s Coffee in downtown Cd’A enjoying a remote presentation by Matthew Ray Scott on “Virtual Business” (did I get everything?), and during the presentation Matthew mentioned that while there are many benefits to being able to work from home, that he still needed a virtual water cooler environment (yes, I know that I am violating one of Matthew’s recommendations to get rid of the word “virtual”, but for this story it applies). I had just been thinking about that very thing yesterday and realized that my combination of IM (iChat) and Twitter (Twitterific) sort of filled that need but I was trying to put my finger on what was missing that you receive from a real water cooler environment (besides cooler water).
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Channeling Cesar Millan
Filed under: Coeur d'Alene, Life, North Idaho
Cesar Millan has transformed our household into a bunch of Dog Whisperer wannabes. Being as that we’re in Idaho (and not just Idaho, but NORTH Idaho!), we’re not expecting Cesar to come toolin’ down our cul-de-sac in his Jeep and camera crew in tow anytime soon, so we’ve had to resort to the next best thing: throw all of his episodes into our Netflix queue and start “shushing” our dog ourselves. And our next-door neighbor’s dog. And our next-door neighbor on the other side. And our neighbors down the street and basically any dog that comes around our neighborhood.
Updated Site Look
Short post today just announcing (or at least acknowledging) that the site has had a facelift. This site since its inception has been a case study of “the cobbler’s kids have no shoes.” Well, I finally forced myself to at least do a little sprucing up around the place. There’s still an awful lot to do as I’m also working on a complete overhaul of Whitestone Design Werks too, but it will get done eventually. I just need to keep plugging away. Hope to add a Colophon page here soon.
Summer’s Swan Song
With the economy in a roller-coaster meltdown/frenzy, I am enjoying the last vestiges of summer-like weather here in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Woke up this morning and took some interesting shots with the D80 of the sunflowers on our patio (see left) and enjoyed a nice cup of coffee as well as one of the last times this year that I’ll be able to walk out on the grass barefoot before 7:00 am in the morning.
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