In China if you are stressed and you need to release some anger evidently this is how to release it.  You select the item you want to destroy and the coil slowly moves to push the delicate item forward until it drops shattering it at the bottom of the machine.  What an interesting world we live in.   Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/43970

Went to Super Franks again today and I don’t know who had more fun…Tyler or me.

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I have two friends named JJ.  The JJ in Phoenix has a band called A Save for the Cameras and he sent over some of his songs tonight.  My favorite is “Paper Plate Bean Shakers” which I’ve embedded above.  I asked him where he got the band name A Save for the Cameras and he said “me and the other guitar player used to always play Fifa together on Playstation and when a guy kicks a ridiculous shot and the keeper blocks it, the announcer says “that was a save for the cameras”.  Help JJ spread the word of his band and I’m sure he would appreciate you letting him know what you think.

I was talking with JJ tonight who recommended StackOverflow.com the anti Experts-Exchange.com site.

The January 2010 edition of Inc. Magazine has a great article titled “When and How to Micromanage“.  In the article Joel Spolsky talks about a “problem-solving technique developed by Toyota after World War II to improve its manufacturing process.  The idea is to ask “why” five times to get to the root of any failure, so you fix the core problem instead of the symptoms.”  I think it is very healthy for companies to constantly question the status quo and I liked Toyota’s approach of questioning current processes.  Many companies are asked why they do things by their customers, employees, or stockholders and sometimes I know the answer to questions are because someone said so.  Rarely are those companies or individuals within those companies challenged to answer the five whys.  When a child learns to first talk they ask lots of questions don’t they?  Why is it as adults we frown upon asking questions?