Question: Is 10 out of 84 a good success rate for getting people to commit to attending an all-day paintball trip?

Better question: What is the best way to market an event to maximize attendance ( Read more... )

Oy! It seems like I'm waiting for everything today. Things I'm waiting for ( Read more... )

On a whim this afternoon I picked up my copy of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (of Tipping Point fame) that had been languishing on my shelf since Christmas. An hour and 100 pages later, I came across a section that I think would make a great subject for reader participation.

The central thesis of Outliers is that successful people are successful ( Read more... )

Two thoughts:

1. Family DisconnectI was a bit taken aback when my mom asked me tonight how things have been "since we haven't really seen you in a week." But she's right. Between the New York trip, going straight from work to Judo or social events, and going out on weekends, I haven't really spent much time at home at all. I haven't had dinner ( Read more... )

Pre-op I gave the camera a 20% of survival, but I am happy to report that my repair was a complete success ( Read more... )

Wow. I love learning new things. In the past two weeks I went from knowing almost nothing about databases, to managing 3 different access databases to analyze datasets of tens of thousands of records. Woo! I found a great article on data normalization that really taught me a lot about how to work things. Here's the article: Read more... )

Why are the people who work in the Dept. of Defense so fixated on PowerPoint? Really, I don't get it ( Read more... )

In response to my earlier post, the wonderful Juliet (silverskytears) sent me two scholarly articles on the subject of how readers respond to negative communication. As is to be expected, the research raises a host of issues I never even considered before ( Read more... )

Almost every time I've injured myself in Judo it has gone like this ( Read more... )

"do you think people really mean it when they say "I regret to inform you blah blah", or they have some sort of strange pleasure from that?" -A friend's status message
In the brief conversation that message sparked, I came up with what I think is an interesting psychology question: Is it better to be blunt in rejections or to try to couch rejection ( Read more... )