Bryan Strawser

Is it just me or does 3 Doors Down just kick ass on their latest album?

Leonardo da Vinci. “Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Actually set the alarm this morning and got up at 7:00am. Now sitting on the porch with the PowerBook, a cup of herbal tea, and a list of things to get done online. No one else is up, and Galadriel is hiding somewhere inside after having her breakfast.

Sunny and not a cloud in the sky here in Taunton.

the vagina minerals. Stonehenge riddle solved: It’s a giant muff. Accessing the article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine costs $15, so I did a google image search for an arial view. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Went to a wedding today in Portsmouth, NH – a very beautiful city. Pictures are forthcoming. Horrible drive getting there, much better drive on the way home. Had company with me as well 😉

And I can’t wait… faithful recreation of not. The old show was a bit campy.

If Sci-Fi’s respect with the Dune series is any indication, this show should do very well – and be quite entertaining.

Olmos Tells Fans: “Don’t Watch Galactica” [Slashdot]

Jim nails it on the head here. Alot of effective leadership revolves around being willing to be respected v. being liked. About doing the right things for the right reasons. About being willing to be unpopular because of a difficult decision that you had to make. It’s one of the most difficult things to teach a new leader.

With all of the things we hear every day it’s amazing what sticks.

I don’t remember how the conversation got started, but it happened at least 15 years ago. It was right after I started at IHC in 1988. One of my peers (name withheld) and I were talking. In a playful way I said something like, “hey, don’t you like me?” The reply was of course, but being liked isn’t important. What is important is being respected.

That exchange lead to a more serious conversation regarding respect. Don’t take me wrong. It’s not like all of the world’s problems were addressed in this one conversation. It was just a brief chat. It shouldn’t have affected me at all.

And yet, over these past 15 years, I’ve thought about that conversation many times. Do I want to be liked? Well, not if it costs me respect…….. [Jim’s Pond – Exploring the Universe of Ideas]