Played a round this week at the Great Rock Country Club in Long Island, New York. Couple shots:
First time out this year and did not play well. Couple sweet shots though.. but not near enough.
Friday morning, we made it over to the Today Show studio in time to hear Neil Diamond sing “They’re coming to america” - and try to take some pictures.
I’m not a fan of Katie Couric of Matt Lauer, but you can just see them through the camera scaffolding here.
I saw Neil Diamond’s head once, but the pictures didn’t turn out.
As you can see, the construction guys across the street liked Neil too:
Visited Ground Zero this week and then trekked over to the NYPD Museum and Battery Park. Some shots:
Caught this near Times Square earlier this week - pretty graphic protest against the Chinese government’s treatment of the Falun Gong.
Couple pictures of Galadriel from last week. First, basking in the morning sun:
Then napping on top of one of the laptops. Cos.. well, it’s warm ya know.
Now you’ll understand why I had to take that laptop apart and remove kitty hair from the fan!
Robert Scoble wrote about his meeting with Target earlier this month:
Target report. Yesterday was an incredible day for me personally. There are so many fantastic people at Target I couldn’t name them all. Having dinner with Paul Singer last night, senior vice president and CIO, was one of the highlights of my life. He’s worked at Target for 21 years. We talked about a range of things from the Tablet PC I was carrying to his “Adopt” pin that he was wearing (he highly recommends adoption and is an evangelist for helping out kids who don’t have parents).
The headquarters at Target just gets my creative juices going. It’s a beautiful building and quite a few separate employees spoke in glowing terms about the art work and culture that’s prevelent there. Yesterday they had cultural dances and hundreds of employees were enthusiastically watching that.
I don’t want to share too much what was discussed in the meeting because that’s a competitive advantage that Target will have and I don’t want to mess that up.
If you think you (people who left comments on the treads, or wrote about Target yesterday) didn’t have an impact, you did. They are looking at this new world and trying to learn from it, and watching their process as they do that makes me understand why Target has such a strong brand. When I say “they” by the way, I mean many of the most important leaders inside Target are reading the blogs this morning.
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One observation. Employees at Target dress to the nines! If Microsoft and Target employees ever got together for a party you’d be able to separate them out instantly. No jeans and t-shirts were seen at Target.
Another observation: far more diversity, both in gender and ethnicity, than I see in the tech industry. We have a LOT to learn from Target on that score.
Thanks for recognizing that Target is a cool place. It will be interesting to see how we proceed in the blogging arena.
You should read it too. Why? Because it’s Dooce.
She sounded like she was being ripped apart. I immediately transferred her to the changing table where I took off her diaper, and there we found an almost apple-sized piece of coal hanging from her butt. It wasn’t budging, and because Jon had once picked up my poop I did what any decent human would do and I pried it out of her. Leta, when you’re 16-years-old and you’re reading this and you start to think, ohmigod, I can’t believe my mother just wrote that, you should know that I pulled out that piece of poop BECAUSE I LOVE YOU. THAT’S WHAT MOTHERS DO.
Hi, my name is Heather and I used to have a career and make lots of money. Now I poop while my daughter sits at my feet and plays with Tampax, and that’s what I consider a successful morning.
Off to NYC for five days, via Long Island.
Got my Red Sox shirts and caps packed, of course.