A BUNCH OF USELESS RAMBLINGS...

It's 10:07pm. I'm sitting in my office trying to muster up some energy to focus on my message for tomorrow and a class that I'm teaching at. I'm eating Little Debbie oatmeal creme pies and drinking Coke. Isn't that sick?

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust (woops, the sugar just kicked in) got back from officiating a wedding ceremony for a good friend of mine. It was a nice, intimate wedding. They are headed to a warm island early in the morning and I begged and begged them to take me with them, but it just didn't fly. Can you believe that?

Had a Chicago hot dog today - here's a picture:



See what all you far away people are missing out on?

Ok, gotta go. I need to take advantage of the sugar high while I have it.

CHICAGO FOOD IN NEW YORK TIMES



The New York Times took a stab on Thursday to rate Chicago food. It's actually a very interesting article and it even mentions my favorite Italian Beef stop - Al's #1 Beef. My location of preference is on Taylor Street in Little Italy. There's nothing like this sandwich in the world.

In case you aren't familiar with the italian beef sandwich, it is thin sliced beef on a soggy french roll with either hot or sweet peppers. If you are the daring type, you'll have them dip the entire sandwich into the gravy (juice). Although you will need a shower after eating it, your mouth will be filled with gratitude for hours on end.

The article has some nice descriptions and reviews of the ever famous Chicago hot dog. I found it a bit odd that the writer didn't stop for Chicago pizza while in town or even comment much on it. Chicago pizza is a major deal to all of us Chicagoans.

Check out the article here. and learn a bit about Chicago food! THE BEST IN THE WORLD!

AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR JOB SUCKS....




(Thanks New Yorkish.)

NOMOREOSA

Here's a chance to slap the crap out of Omarosa.

CRACK KILLS



It's not what you think it is. Look here.

NEWSMAP

Hey - all you "news junkies"... Check this out. Pretty cool.



(thanks randall friesen - who I'm pretty sure is Canadian, 'eh?)

QUICK SWIM

Apparently some Canadian tourists decided to take a swim in the Central Park Reservoir in NYC. They had to scale a 4 foot fence to get into it and ended up spending the night in jail.

Story here.

Can you imagine what might be in that water?

BANANA SHAMANA

This is kind of weird, but creative.

It's amazing what people come up with...but you've got to give them credit!

GMAIL



I feel special. As a "blogger", I was invited by Google (probably along with a few million other people) to testdrive the new "Gmail" - Google's new email program.

So far, it seems ok. Not a lot of frills, except for the 1GB (yes - gigabyte!!) storage capacity. That is amazing to me... It's also a great option for storing documents, images, etc... if need be.

They must have HUGE servers to be able to hold 1GB for every person who uses Gmail.

Anyway - just for fun, shoot me an email at: happyweeble(AT)gmail.com.

Thanks.

SUBSERVIENT CHICKEN



My friend, Melissa, showed me a link today that I thought was pretty clever. It's the latest in Burger King marketing and when you click on the link it loads up a webcam and shows a person dressed up in a chicken costume who will do whatever you ask him to (within reason - trust me...don't let the garter belts fool you.).

For example, if you type: "go the bathroom" he will walk over to the couch and pretend he is taking a leak. If you say, "breakdance" he will do the moonwalk.

I kid you not, if you didn't know any better, you would think that there is really some kid in an apartment somewhere being paid $10 an hour to do this. So I tried something. I opened up two browsers and typed in two different commands to the same chicken. Mysteriously enough the chicken performed both acts at the same time.

But nonetheless, it's a clever idea and it kept my attention long enough to wonder if this thing was for real or not. And now that I think about it, I'm kinda in the mood for a chicken sandwich. We'll see what Mr. Chicken thinks about that!

Oh yeah, here's the link.

PS - Chicken update: You can see how this all works by clicking here. (Thanks to BoingBoing)

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION DAY

Thank you to Fast Company Now for the informative head's up that this coming Wednesday is not only Administrative Professional's Day but also Creativity and Innovation Day.

According to the founder's website, Creativity and Innovation Day was "founded on June 1, 2001 to encourage people all over the world to use their creative capacities to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too. It's vision rests on the belief that every person is endowed with the ability to use knowledge, imagination and evaluation to create new and meaningful solutions to meet the challenges we face."

So, here's my proposal: Let's all be holiday-ish on Wednesday and recognize the administrative professionals in our lives. But let's also go out of our way to celebrate innovation and creativity (two words that excite the daylights out of me!).

So now, let me hear your ideas on celebrating innovation & creativity in your organization! Comment away!

A LEARNED TO LEARNER LITANY OF TRANSFORMATION

Great, challenging thoughts here from Leonard Sweet.