Afternoon Delight

Will Ferrell's new video, Afternoon Delight is hilarious. Check it out here.

(If you don't appreciate Ferrell's humor, don't bother...)

Alice in Wonderland

J. Otto Seibold wrote the Alice in Wonderland pop up book for children. Here is a really cool flash adaptation of the book.

(Thanks to BoingBoing for the link)

The Best Of...

I'm about to naw my arm off. I just finished going through The Best of Citysearch Chicago Restaurants. Definately worth bookmarking for reference if you live in the Chicago area.

If you live near a different major city, you can click here for their US directory.

Ideas

"There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it."
Seth Godin, Author, "Free Prize Inside!"

Great point by Mr. Godin.

In his book, Free Prize Inside, Seth makes the point that there are typically three questions that people ask themselves when approached with an idea. Here they are:

1. Is it going to be successful?
2. Is it worth doing?
3. Is this person able to champion the project?

If you are in "idea" person and you find that your ideas aren't flying in your organization, consider that it may not be the ideas themselves, but perhaps that your boss/manager/leader/whatever isn't able to positively answer these 3 questions.

As Godin says, "...these people don't care a bit about what your answer to these three questions might be. What matters is what they think the answer is, based on the evidence you give them."

Fahrenheit 9/11

Jason Kottke has takes an interesting look at the new Micheal Moore movie, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Someone asked me if I am planning on seeing the movie and I told them that I might try to go and see it before it gets banned or removed from the theatres.

My concern is for the people who will watch this movie and accept what they see as "fact" instead of taking the time to investigate and discover the "facts" for themselves. I am convinced that, unfortunately, most people believe what they want to believe - regardless of if they've taken the time to think for themselves on the issue or not. (I think a lot of "Christian" people do this all the time...)

Will you see it?

Empty

My posting lately has been lame. I'm not sure why, but I almost feel like my ability to write is completely gone. I don't know what it is, but almost every time I sit down at my computer to write, my mind feels empty and dry.

It would probably do me good to shut my computer off for a couple of days and just read more. Unfortunately, this cursed machine called a computer draws me away from my reading more than I like. I am typically always reading a book, but lately I've started about 3 books and haven't finished any of them (with the exception of a Seth Godin book that I read a few weeks ago...).

I'm sort of in the mood to read a good historical narrative. One of the best historical books I've ever read is a book entitled, Undaunted Courage written by Stephen Ambrose. It's a book about Louis & Clark and their journey west. The accounts in this book reminded me of my days in the Royal Rangers (kidding...).

A couple of years ago, I read the book When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan. It's a biography on the life of Ronald Reagan. Peggy is a great writer and her Wall Street Journal editorials can be found here.

I'm currently about half way through Anne Lamott's book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. At the rate I'm reading this one I should have it completed by mid 2009.

So people, I apologize for the "lack of" good posts. Maybe it's time to bring in a guest blogger. Anyone interested?

Good News

Good news folks. I did the garbage thing today and actually stayed well. No bees, no gagging! I should win some sort of award...

(If you don't know what I'm talking about read this post.)

Gmail

Gmail is a new email service offered by Google. It offers 1GB (yes, 1000 megabytes) of storage and it is free. BUT, you can only obtain an account if a) Google sends you a private invitation/offer or b) someone like me has an extra one that he is willing to give away to the first person who emails him a request.

Whoever's request I get first will receive an invite via email.

(My email is: happyweeble (at sign) hotmail.com)

More Animals in Yuppie Town

My site needed a little bit of color so I thought I would share these pics I took downtown Naperville a couple of days ago.

Funny observation - the pic of the purple cow and yellow lamb has the artist's name written on the small sign next to it. His name? Christopher CUDworth.

Is it just me or is that kind of ironic?

Quietness @ Weebleland

My brain is on vacation. It will be back soon. (I hope...)