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Flash Fans: 2012 Budweiser Official Big Game Commercial

Jeremy — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:54:46 +0000

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Email: My Lessons Learned?

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:30:40 +0000

I decided to start using a Mac at work, one of the very few to do so where I work and rumor has it the first outside of IT (besides one department who has been using them for years). I’m still learning how to get everything working on the Mac, I’ll probably have a few upcoming posts on that topic. What I wanted to talk about tonight though is email. Because I got a new laptop it gave me a chance to start fresh. Start the new year with a clean slate.

Here is how I’m planning to manage email with my new life on a Mac:

I no longer have Personal Files (PST). Once my trash/sent mail fills up, I empty/remove it.
If people choose to send me files via email I store them in project folders. Still not the best way to manage static files but I have future plans for better managing them. For now, they reside in project folders on my hard drive.
I read the email and try whenever possible to only touch it once.

I’ve realized there are 7 primary uses of email I’ve found:

File transfer (NO!!!!)
Task assignments (unless you have a task or project management system…NO!!!!)
Finding out who can help, locating expertise (unless you have an expertise locater…OK)
Calendar/meeting appointments (for now…OK)
Corresponding with external partners (for now…OK)
Correspondence chain AKA my “CYA” (I say NO to this one but am on the fence for how to best handle this)
Conversations (for now…OK)

What did I miss? What email best practices are you using?

3,000 Posts

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:11:37 +0000

I started this blog on April 10th, 2008. Technically it was a few months before that but due to some rookie mistakes for the first few months I finally figured out how to manage a blog without blowing it up. Over the last 4 years I’ve had 465 comments. That means for every 6 blog posts I get one comment, not too bad I guess. That number is terrible if you were to compare to likes/comments on a Facebook posting. Blog engagement/community seems to be dying. Maybe it is just me. People consume on blogs/sites and engage in social media. At least that is my view. I’m averaging 40 some RSS reads per day, is RSS dying too? To date 256,199 people have visited my site. I don’t have a blog for the hits, or for the comments. I use my blog as an online brain, a place for me to refer to things I’ve thought, sites I’ve enjoyed, videos, pictures, things I want to share. Thanks for hanging in there with me while we all figure this out.

I Always Wonder

Jeremy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:27:56 +0000

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Last Minutes With Oden

Jeremy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:15:09 +0000

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We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists – Trailer

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:47:10 +0000

NSFW due to language.

Trunking

Jeremy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:39:17 +0000

Things you learn in traffic school. Oh those crazy kids…

CES – Samsung’s Smart Window

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:12:16 +0000

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Dave’s Killer Bread at Safeway’s Headquarters

Jeremy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:42:36 +0000

Saw Dave from Dave’s Killer bread at Safeway’s Corporate Headquarters today. Great guy…

Water Your Own Grass

Jeremy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:00:38 +0000

Don’t be afraid of a little “my time”. Date night, my computer time, my church time, my work time, my cake time. Wait, OK you can share cake…maybe just a little. Make sure your sprinklers are directed toward you and your family every now and again…

http://www.jeremyperson.com/the-grass-is-always-greener/

T-Rex Hates Push-Ups

Jeremy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:30:06 +0000

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Oldest Fears

Jeremy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:14:24 +0000

If your dreams don’t scare you, they probably aren’t big enough.

Blackboard Backsplash

Jeremy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:03:45 +0000

Source: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

Arguments

Jeremy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:58:01 +0000

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Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Jeremy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:44:40 +0000

I don’t know how I stumbled on this poem but I loved it. Not necessarily because it relates to me, it doesn’t. Not at all. I think I can’t stop reading and listening to it because I love honesty. I love brutal, real, raw honesty. For that reason this poem is simply amazing to me.

“There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too tough for him. I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there.

There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too tough for him. I say, stay down, do you want to mess me up? You want to screw up the works? You want to blow my book sales in Europe?

There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I’m too clever. I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody’s asleep. I say, I know that you’re there, so don’t be sad. Then I put him back, but he’s singing a little in there. I haven’t quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it’s nice enough to make a man weep.

But I don’t weep. Do you?”

- Charles Bukowski

The Previous Owner

Jeremy — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:43:03 +0000

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Born to Learn

Jeremy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:30:21 +0000

Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn!

The Future Belongs To The Curious

Jeremy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:38:51 +0000

Via Skillshare

Moonrise Kingdom

Jeremy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:04:11 +0000

This one looks interesting and different. Finally, a movie that is interesting and different.

Interesting Facts

Jeremy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:27:09 +0000

1. The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747′s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. The Wright brother’s invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word “set” has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

Source: http://www.citehr.com/

Chase Your Dreams

Jeremy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:30:52 +0000

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