Kelly's Point to Ponder

2008-07-03T05:29:00.000-05:00

"Success is all about employee freedom. You have to fight the encroachment of rules and bureaucracy and people who want to limit us at every place. The fundamental risk in a technology company is the loss of creativity. You have to take a lot of little risks, break the rules, and push the values of employee freedom."

- Reed Hastings, Netflix founder

2008-07-02T05:57:00.000-05:00

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

Who Says Kids May You Happy?

2008-07-01T05:53:00.010-05:00

Interesting article from Newsweek. The author considers both perspectives - couples with and without children.

Personally, I agree with one of the comments, "...Everyone has to make the decision they can live with. I think it is nonsense that childless people are happier than people with children or vice versa. People who have children and are unhappy would be unhappy without children too, because there are people who will never be content with what they have...The grass is always greener on the other side, right?..."

"If most are not happy, then it's not because they do or do not have children, it's because they chose to not find the joy in what they have..."

Read the full article here - note: the comments are almost as interesting as the article.

2008-06-30T05:38:00.000-05:00

If you have a bad day, don't worry about it. You can't expect to get a hit every game.

- Yogi Berra

Novel Treatments Ease Migraine Pain

2008-06-27T12:37:00.002-05:00

New studies discussed at the American Headache Society’s annual meeting in Boston suggest that new technologies may lead to promising treatments - Full Story

2008-06-27T04:54:00.000-05:00

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller

2008-06-25T05:59:00.000-05:00

Lessons are usually where you look for them. You can learn something from anyone.

- Brian Koval

2008-06-24T05:57:00.003-05:00

Far more lives are lost to diseases caused by a lack of sunlight than to those caused by too much.

International Journal of Epidemiology
Excerpted from this article

2008-06-23T06:52:00.000-05:00

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

- Robert Ingersoll

2008-06-20T05:50:00.000-05:00

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

2008-06-19T05:45:00.000-05:00

Half the people who have heart attacks don't have symptoms before they have a heart attack.

Understand that cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of death and disability in our society, so it's something you really can't afford to ignore. If you're looking for a magic bullet to protect yourself from heart disease, the closest thing we have to that is exercise. It is healthy for us in so many ways.

Learn more...

2008-06-18T05:53:00.000-05:00

People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.

- Laurie Beth Jones

2008-06-17T05:55:00.000-05:00

As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

- Barbara Sher

2008-06-16T06:44:00.000-05:00

Live your imagination, not your history.

- Steven Covey

2008-06-13T05:55:00.000-05:00

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

2008-06-12T05:31:00.000-05:00

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

2008-06-11T05:46:00.000-05:00

The only way to be truly happy is to relish what you do have, what you can do, and who you are right now.

- John Tesh

Your life's work

2008-06-10T05:08:00.004-05:00

It isn't about the perfect job; it is about your life's work. Jobs are temporary things, often enticing on paper until you realize that as soon as you get comfortable in your position, it will change, your boss will change, your team will change or your organization will change. Your life's work on the other hand, are activities that you have natural talent for, which energize you and stimulate you and do not change no matter what "job" you happen to be in. Each one of us has specific gifts, talents and experience that make us uniquely qualified to do our life's work. Each choice you make about a job should be in the context of supporting and furthering your life's work.

- Pamela Slim, author of 'Get a Life' blog

Cell phone use and cancer risk - debate continues

2008-06-06T06:42:00.001-05:00

What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don't? Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears.

"What we're seeing is suggestions in epidemiological studies that have looked at people using phones for 10 or more years," says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, an industry publication that tracks the research. "There are some very disconcerting findings that suggest a problem, although it’s much too early to reach a conclusive view."

Some doctors say the real concern is not older cellphone users, who began using phones as adults, but children who are beginning to use phones today and face a lifetime of exposure.

The fear is that even if the individual risk of using a cellphone is low, with three billion users worldwide, even a minuscule risk would translate into a major public health concern.

"We cannot say with any certainty that cellphones are either safe or not safe," Dr. Black said on CNN. "My concern is that with the widespread use of cellphones, the worst scenario would be that we get the definitive study 10 years from now, and we find out there is a correlation."

Read full article

2008-06-05T20:53:00.004-05:00

Life is a puzzle. Tackle each piece one at a time. Then put it back together - in your own way.

- Kelly Shipp, 2008

Butterflies in danger

2008-06-04T20:32:00.006-05:00

Worldwide, many butterfly species have begun to falter and even disappear. In this country, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has designated 23 species as endangered or threatened.
View National Wildlife article

Sun Kings

2008-06-04T05:57:00.000-05:00

A pair of Swiss pioneers are gearing up for a 23,000-mile flight around the world fueled only by solar energy.
...Bertrand Piccard, a record-breaking Swiss hot-air balloonist who is, incidentally, a qualified psychiatrist, thinks the crazy thing would be not to try. "What is dangerous," he says, "is to think we can continue consuming petrol at the rate of one million tons per hour without destroying the planet."
http://www.mensvogue.com/design/articles/2008/03/solar

Num-what?

2008-06-04T05:09:00.002-05:00

Could you use that in a sentence? This is a hilarious video at a spelling bee.

Ask for what you want

2008-06-02T05:43:00.002-05:00

The more often you ask for what you want, the more likely you are to get it. To ask for help, you have to define what you want. To get the best results, ask about the process, not the people.

- Pamela Slim (ganas.com)

Jack Russell Terrier pops balloons

2008-06-01T16:40:00.002-05:00

Jack Russell Terrier pop balloons in 30 seconds. This is hilarious!