How Not to Use Twitter for PR

Had this conversation today (it started yesterday, but the first response was today... timely!):
This is how you don't use Twitter to talk to your customers or possible customers. Just sayin'.

Also, was there any slander in there on my part? I don't think so. Was just reporting the facts as I witnessed the driver smoking while they drove the food truck by my office. And for the record, I love the food truck concept. I support them.

Drink. Start a Facebook post. Then realize you have a blog entry.

About half an hour ago I started typing up a Facebook update. As I finished it, I realized, "Shit, this is really a blog entry. Why don't I just copy it, paste it into my blog, add a bit of a preamble, and then post the fucker?"

That being said, let me say this (and a little of that):

I don't remember when I started, but I've been listening to the audio books of Stephen King in chronological order. It's been about 6 months. I think. If you really want to know when I REALLY started, then think on this:

• I have a 30 min subway ride, one-way, twice per day.
• I listen to the books in the AM (the mikeomearashow.com rules my PMs!)
• Occasionally, and by that I mean rarely (really, like once every blue moon), I skip a day, as I might have enjoyed too many liquids the night before.
• I've been listening to them in order, King and Bachman titles alike, minus non-fiction, Dark Tower books and comic books/movie scripts.
• Based on the above facts and where I currently am (see a couple lines below) you'll be able to figure out when I really started.

I'm currently enjoying "Christine." I'm less than 1/3 of the way and I'm in love. Actually, I was in love with it after maybe 4 chapters. I forgot how good this book is.

I had the same feeling while listening to "The Running Man," and with that one, I had almost forgotten 90% of the story, thanks to Ahnold and Richard Dawson. It's really fucking good. And I use that word with all sincerity.

"Rereading" the books I started reading as an early teen (and I was HOOKED then) is enlightening on so many levels.

Thanks, Pop, for handing me "Firestarter" when I was about 11. Or 12. 13? I really don't remember. All I know is that I've loved horror just about as long as I've loved reading.

Again,

Thanks, Pop.

A Problem Solved: PC to MAC Angst...

I've always been a PC person but switched to Mac about 2.5 years ago when I started my current gig. It was surprisingly easy to make the switch and I really had no complaints.

Except one:
I missed the "Home" and "End" button functionality. When in Windows and editing a file with multiple lines of text, these buttons will take you to the start or end, respectively, of the line on which the cursor sits. On a Mac, these buttons take you to the start or the end of the file. Bart no like.

Since my switch, I've always hated this. I have a coworker who consistently tells me that the same result can be had by using the up/down arrows on the keyboard. "Works every time," he says. Well, it works every time there is only one line of text, otherwise it just moves the cursor up or down the lines. Not helpful and he still tries to tell me this when I bemoan my fate.

Last Friday, another coworker clued me in, and I'm really surprised that it's taken this long for the information to get to me. So, allow me to elucidate:

When your cursor is on a line of text and you want to jump to the start or end of that particular line, then click CMD+<- or CMD+-> (left arrow, right arrow), respectively. Simple, really, and I'm again surprised that no one told me sooner. Same functionality as the Home and End buttons on a PC.

Genius! Now, I'm back at 100% effectiveness. ;)

I have entered The Zone

On July 12, 2010, I started the on the Zone diet. I've been doing it 80-90% and since I started I've lost 20# with no more exercise than a little extra walking at work (I sit in front of a computer all day).

I'm now down 60# since the start of the new year. Today I played 18 holes of golf at Patapsco ( and shot a new best of 65) and I WAS NOT TIRED AFTERWARDS. This is nice.

Read The Zone and Mastering the Zone by Barry Sears. I got them at the library and blasted through them in less than 3 weeks. Once you read and understand what's going on, you'll wish you had learned this 15 years ago when the first book was published. The fat will melt off and optimum health will follow.

I always feel like somebody's watching me...

So I was looking at the Analytics for yesterday's post and there was one hit from the following network:

adobe systems inc.

I'll bet the typo is gone in the next Fireworks update. Just goes to show you, they are listening! It's nice to know, too. Just as long as it's not Big Brother. Shhh!

Fireworks CS4 Typo

It's not a huge deal. Hey, mistakes happen all the time. I'm just surprised to see it happen in an Adobe product, as polished as they like to be and considering how much one has to pay to use the damn things!

I was in the preferences window for Fireworks CS4 (Mac, and at work), just looking around, when I moused over a check box and there it was. I did a double take. I moused over a couple more times to be sure it wasn't me. Nope, not me. There is, indeed, a typo in Fireworks CS4! Ha! I love it.


Did a quick Google search and it looks like I might even be the first to notice. Although, given the number of Geeks in the world, I'd be surprised if I really am the first. Either way, it's kind of like an Easter Egg for me. :)

Take care!

Punishings from Patapsco

Hello!

It's been a while, but I'm back in the game.

I took some time off after the Druid Hill Open (last November) as I was afflicted with Plantar Fasciitis in both feet, but the left one is the worst. It still hurts, but it's getting better and it isn't as bad as it was at the end of last year.

I played in the Druid Ice Bowl and the Rockburn Ice Bowl/Chili Cook-Off. I didn't make any chili, but the offerings were very good. I look forward to next year's event. Funny story about me and Druid: at the Open in Nov, I lost a disc in a tree on #8. It's a big tree and the trunk splits about 30 feet up making a big "V." My disc is wedged in that "V." At the Ice Bowl, as we approached the 8th tee, I told the others in my group about the tree and how I lost the disc. I then step up to drive, and BAM! the disc lands in a hole about 6 feet below the "V" in the same tree. Lesson learned: don't talk about bad shots before you drive! Funny thing is, both discs are yellow Avenger SS's. I love those. Methinks I'll have to get some more, since it looks like they'll be in the tree for a long time.

Anyway, on to more recent happenings!

The Patapsco Punisher is next weekend and in preparation, I've played the course 3 times in the last 3 weeks. I'm thinking I might even hit it again tomorrow morning for more practice. I've come to notice that my accuracy is improving to the point where I see the line I want the disc to take and when I throw the disc, it follows the line I want. I'm also getting better at threading it throw small gaps in the trees without playing pinball.

Two weeks ago, I met a couple like minded fools at the course and we played a round from the blues. All the pins are in the Punisher layout (everything is in C). We get punished and I walk away with a 96! OUCH!!

Last weekend, I met the Nomads and we played from the reds. I shot a 78 and felt pretty damn good with myself. 15 strokes off the lead, but only 9 from my nemesis! That gap is usually larger. :)

Today, I played a solo round from the blues and shot an 88. Still not great (it should have been lower), but 8 strokes better than my last outing from the blues. The Punisher is 2 rounds, one red, one blue. I hoping to shoot lower than I did last year (88, 85) and get my rating up!

I'll check in next weekend and let you know how things went...

Ciao!