When I Googled where the nearest Arby’s was in relation to my house, I groaned when the ETA said 20+ minutes. Little did I know the treasure I would find. Food was delicious, went with the Arby Melt as Eat This, Not That recommends. Couldn’t avoid the delicious potato cakes, however.
For the second week in a row, I join my partners in baseball banter Pat Gallen, Corey Seidman, and Jay Floyd to discuss the 2012 Phillies Trade deadline moves on Episode 21 of Phillies Nation TV!
Had a lot of fun out in Reading, PA, also known as Baseballtown, with my colleague Pat Gallen from Phillies Nation to check out the Eastern League All-Star Game. I caught up with first baseman Darin Ruf and shortstop Troy Hanzawa and got their thoughts on the AS Game, playing in front of their hometown crowd, and the atmosphere of Baseballtown. Thank you to everyone at Reading for a great time!
Really digging this power-pop anthem from 1974 from Temple-alum Tim Moore. Moore played drums in the first band to feature Todd Rundgren, Woody’s Truck Stop and played in a group called The Muffins before becoming a singer/songwriter. Moore’s “Rock N Roll Love Letter” would become his most well known song and the Bay City Roller’s version of the song would go number 1 in Canada. This all-time power pop classic features some tasty licks, all performed by Moore.
Chobani makes my favorite Greek yogurt out there. There is nothing better than a nice blueberry or strawberry banana Chobani. When I heard they had some new flavors, I was excited to try them. First on my list? Apple Cinnamon.
The Good:
Apple Cinnamon’s fruit-on-the-bottom is tremendous. Imagine the filling of a cinnamon Pop-Tart with all of the weird fatty taste of the Pop-Tart stripped away along with all of the artificial sugars in the filling. It’s that good.
140 calories, 14 grams of protein. Not bad at all.
All natural flavoring.
The Bad:
Greek yogurt is already pretty tart. They perfectly replicate the tartness of an apple. How much tart is too tarty? This comes pretty close. To its credit, the tart level is exactly as you’d expect if you bit into an apple covered in Chobani yogurt.
Verdict:
Won’t buy this one again unless it’s the last one on the shelf. It’s not that bad but the other Chobani flavors, including blueberry, strawberry banana, pomegranate, and pineapple are much more my style.
It is really easy to feel under-appreciated or under-utilized at work: even the most appreciated, advanced, well-regarded, and accomplished professional has this feeling sink in every once in a while. For young professionals, reconciling this feeling can be particularly daunting – the years of college and grunt-work in unpaid internships these days usually will be rewarded by a very similar job to the internship you had that pays a competitive wage. Sometimes that competitive wage pays plenty to pay the bills but not to move out of your parents home, a storyline I’m very familiar with.
These jobs can provide valuable experiences and innovation and initiative can and is rewarded but the temptation is to push the envelope, to let your anxiousness translate into bigger ideas, faster motion. This isn’t always a good thing.
Most of the great albums of the last 20, 30, or even 40 years rarely are non-stop motion. And most of these great albums share a lot with working in an entry-level job in a major corporate structure. Here’s how they relate and some tips: (more…)
Woah nelly. This article really happened – in 1911, the New York Times Sunday Magazine printed a feature on two gigantic (1000 miles x 20 miles) canals that were built on Mars in just two years. The 105 million square foot canals would have easily been larger than anything ever built on Earth and, as awesome blog Futility Closet points out, the Times was blown away by this supposed Martian accomplishment:
Canals a thousand miles long and twenty miles wide are simply beyond our comprehension. Even though we are aware of the fact that … a rock which here weighs one hundred pounds would there only weigh thirty-eight pounds, engineering operations being in consequence less arduous than here, yet we can scarcely imagine the inhabitants of Mars capable of accomplishing this Herculean task within the short interval of two years.
So what happened? It turns out, as science advanced and the picture literally and figuratively became clearer, it was discovered that the canali, improperly translated in popular texts to canals, were actually a series of small features that produced the appearance of canals. And then the Mariner, Viking, and Pathfinder conclusively determined that there was no humanoid-like life on Mars.
What can young leaders learn from this? (more…)
The Rods, or more famously known now as Eddie and the Rods, were an English pub band often credited for being somewhat of a missing link between rock and roll and punk during the evolution of music in the late 1970s. Their undisputed top, and perhaps only commercial, hit, “Do Anything You Wanna Do”, has become a forgotten anthem relegated to satellite and college radio stations. The terrific music blog, Wilfully Obscure, points out that the meaning of DAYWD for decades has been the subject of debate. Is it an existentialist tune? Is it a working class anthem in the vein of God Save the Queen? Is it a passive aggressive suggestion-to-break-up song? If you’d like, you can draw the conclusions from the lyrics here; however, I see the song as a call and response, a tool to access your current employment situation and if it’s time to change courses. (more…)
I have an awesome manager. She values creativity, integrating ideas from every member of the team, acknowledging challenges upfront, and promotes open dialogue. She’s also a pretty masterful teacher.
In my new role, I manage a pharmaceutical reimbursement team. As it exists now, I am part of a leadership team of four that oversees a team of seven. That seven will very quickly explode to fifteen as one of our value-added reimbursement solutions expands and we add in new business. My manager asked me to create workflow diagrams and estimates that could be followed. I created them over a day or two and turned them in ready to rock and roll and continue project planning. She sent them almost immediately back to me with a note saying “We should discuss these.”
One of the skills my manager has that I really admire is her ability to empower everyone she works with. She has always has time to walk through a problem, but she turns the tables of the problem into the power of finding a solution. My manager never outright tells me or my colleagues what to do or how to do it but she asks guiding and leading questions to help us figure out on our own how to fish rather than feeding us. This situation was no different.
Instead of telling me to re-do my workflows, my manager sent me here. She asked me to compare that flow chart to mine, which looked something like this one. She asked me to write down the differences between the two and set a meeting in our Outlook Calendars to discuss the differences. Here’s what I noticed about my original flow chart: (more…)
Heard this tune today at Retro Fitness – North Wales. These guys are relatively local, from Westfield, NJ, and pack a powerful punch. Their major label debut “If You’re Young” was released last August and it’s gaining some traction, with some spins on MTV (it still exists) and satellite radio.
