Monthly Archives: June 2013

Can be found here: 10 Life Lessons from a Reluctant Runner at zenhabits.  I highly recommend these tips to anyone who runs, especially beginners. Running can be diffucult at times: these tips help make it easier and more enjoyable. Highly recommended.

From the brilliant INCIDENTAL COMICS

Well as you can see from this great infographic from Nicholas Jackson and The Atlantic, it’s pretty darn big!

Once megabytes were a big thing. Gigabytes had their day of seeming to be huge. The day of the yottabyte may be coming soon.

P.S. Here is an old IBM commercial that actually uses the word. Just because…. 🙂

While I am a big fan of Microsoft Project and other project tools, you can still do some good planning with a spreadsheet system like Excel. This article shows you a nice way to do Gantt charts using only Excel. For small projects, this could be a good way to go.

Well, one young entrepreneur had it clearly thought out. He bought the following three things:

1. A trip to Africa

2. A ticket to space

3. A letter Napoleon wrote to his generals

Find out why here: This Is The Best Way An Entrepreneur Has Ever Spent His FU Money – Business Insider

Well, it might have something to do with this chart.

More on the Instagram here.

What else is there to say? Just listen…

I like this site: Washing Machines: Cost per load of washers — Ask Mr. Electricity

It gives you an online calculator and shows you how much you can save by changing the way you do laundry.

A good exercise would be to have an entire list of such calculators, run them all, and total up how changing a few simple behavoirs can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The accumulation would really impress people, I think.

It sounds like an oxymoron, but these are worth checking out (and possibly putting them around your office as opposed to boring modern ones. :))

I like the virus one, but I disagree with the one on social networks.

I found the posters at the Apartment Therapy site and they have a link to the original site by Steve Thomas here.

Sadly.  I feel like I should tape a copy of Clean All the Things to my mop bucket as a rallying cry. 🙂

(Thanks to the great Hyperbole and a Half for this.)