Geography Lesson
If you've ever driven anywhere around these parts, you've seen the "See Rock City" birdhouses and barns and signs all up and down the highways in the South. And you probably know that Rock City is on Lookout Mountain in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee. So Rock City is one of Tennessee's most famous tourist attractions, right? Wrong.
Rock City is in Georgia by 1/2 a mile. I am heartbroken.
Maybe we can
trade them some water for it.
Biz Card Update
I think it's time to update my business cards. Something more like this:
Big Brother and the Insurance Company
When I first started blogging I was anonymous. The reason was I was telling true stories about my life, and I didn't want any crazy ex-girlfriends to show up at my door with a shotgun or a kid they claimed was mine. Then I opened a restaurant and lost my anonymity. These days, with all the social networking I do for both work and personal purposes, I'm pretty easy to find.
I have been shopping for car insurance lately. I got several online quotes. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with a very nice lady at Progressive Insurance. I haven't got a new car yet, so I haven't picked out my insurance yet.
Well, I logged onto
my LinkedIn account today and noticed that there was a bump in the people who looked at my profile. Well looky there, I'm suddenly a person of interest from people in the Insurance industry, including a person in Customer Service at Progressive.
So why are they Googling me? Is it curiosity? Due Diligence? Racial profiling? I don't know. It's just a little creepy.
If you are here because I'm inquiring about buying insurance from your company, you really ought to hear the story about the time I got shit-faced drunk and stole a police car and crashed it through the window of a daycare, killing hundreds of toddlers. To read that story,
click here.
A Serious Look at International Politics
Do you know who this is?
Not sure? Here's another one.
Ok, here's one more hint:
That's right! It's the First Lady of France! It's the French Laura Bush. See the happy couple:
I guess there really is something to the old adage that power is an aphrodisiac. Or, to put it another way: "
That dude is tappin' that?!?!"
Attention all single Italian heiress supermodels. I'm a Vice President. I've got a business card to prove it.
On an unrelated note, the buzz around Washington is that Bill Clinton is lobbying hard for the Ambassadorship in Paris.
SXSW
Techies and Musicians are all abuzz about the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference going on in Austin. In 1987, I was in a band called The Cartoons that was pretty popular in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, especially in our hometown of Denton, Texas. We were contacted about playing at the first SXSW conference.
"Just another music festival that wants us to play for free," was our attitude. We declined. We assumed that SXSW would fizzle out after a year or two, as most of those things did. I guess we was wrong.
The Answer is No.
Dear Spammers,
The answer is no. I have not always been teased about my tiny pecker.
Interpret that as you wish.
