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Yesterday I blogged that I'm considering an ortho surgeon. I don't know if I need one or not, but my internist has suggested I probably do. So, I'm off to see a surgeon to determine whether or not I need surgery.
That's not the story here.
A friend of mine receives updates from my blog, and emailed me immediately suggesting a surgeon he knows of in my home state.
I just post a blog considering a surgeon and the power of friends and personal networks goes to work for me. I didn't email him personally, ask for advice from him or anyone in his local network, and poof -- I get his input anyway. That's extremely cool.
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Submitted by jasonn on July 5, 2008 - 9:02am.
I suffered damage to a ham string muscle, one of my biceps femorus to be precise.
Looking for a surgeon, I'm considering Alabama Orthopedic Spine and Sports Medicine Associates.
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Submitted by jasonn on July 4, 2008 - 1:38pm.
I'm getting out of a funk, again.
I'm in a funk. Mostly, I'm developing a fear about my future and wondering if I can meet my financial goals and production goals based on what I've done recently. Let me be clear, this is largely based on clear judgment. My income has gone down recently, not up. My productivity is in the tank, and my company hasn't released a new product or offering in more than six months. Things are not going well.
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Submitted by jasonn on May 19, 2008 - 9:55am.
I've been wanting to do base jumping for a long time, but this is way cool! Check out this video of winged suit base jumping. I have to do this.
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Submitted by jasonn on January 12, 2008 - 11:10pm.
If you believe an education is valuable, there's gold in them there hills! Some of America's greatest learning institutions offer some of their best educational programs freely online.
The free online university courseware is a hoot. There's something particularly satisfying about believing I'm getting a free ride in one of the world's best educational facilities.
MIT, UC Berkeley, and a few other reputable universities offer free courseware online - no credit of course. It's just the material and classes. But, it looks awfully good at first glance. Organizations like learner.org (The Annenburg Group) also offer some great courseware online free to anyone willing to use their computer to attend classes.
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Submitted by jasonn on June 11, 2007 - 6:44pm.
Man, I'm busy!
I've been so busy that I've ignored the fact that my website software is WAAAY behind. No biggy, so what really. I get paid zilch to run the website and couldn't care less if it crashed for a few hours... days. Only, I'm kind of in the internet business. People drop in on this site ever once in a while. And, crashing the site was bad juju. So, I grabbed a backup and threw it on a new server.
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Submitted by jasonn on February 28, 2007 - 5:41pm.
I received this email from a particularly thrifty, yet slightly obsessive consumer in my family.
This morning I noticed that I'm down to my last roll of toilet paper. I haven't bought any since I moved to XXXXXXXX; no, I'm not joking.
So I'm glancing over dealnews and I saw this listing and it was like fate: two clicks, stock up until 2008.
He moved over a year ago. The guy bought a lot of toilet paper before he moved.
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Submitted by jasonn on July 28, 2006 - 12:49pm.
I consider myself a fairly adept communicator. And, yet often I try to communicate important details to people, and they prove to me that I can't explain anything to them clearly.
The problem with communications, language, and syntactical observance, is that people don't hear words, language, structure, or truth. They hear with their emotions, their bigotry, and their desires both good and bad. You can explain a fact to a man as many ways as possible, and he will still only understand that which he is willing to comprehend.
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Submitted by jasonn on July 19, 2006 - 12:48pm.
I've been on a Digg kick lately, so there's quite a few links there, on this site. I've been visiting it mostly for personal market research, but it's also got a TON of info streaming through it. And, some of it... a small portion of the stuff is good content.
7 Effective Habits has been done, overdone, and burnt! But, it's always a review anybody that's not producing 100% during their work hours should do regularly. Here's a clip from an email I sent one of my developers tonight:
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Submitted by jasonn on July 12, 2006 - 9:26pm.
Learning a new language is very difficult, and often requires linguistic and cultural submersion. An Annenberg learning project offers free online access to their submersion style language training program. Or, you can buy the DVDs for $700. No, you read that properly. You can a) buy the DVDs for $700 or b) watch the videos free.
BBC Languages offers "a bit at a time, in your own time."
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Submitted by jasonn on May 20, 2006 - 5:26pm.
