Genuine Curiosity

Author Dwayne Melancon is always on the lookout for new things to learn. An ecclectic collection of postings on personal productivity, travel, good books, gadgets, leadership & management, and many other things.

 

I suppose this could be useful if I had amnesia?

I was just looking at someone's profile on LinkedIn, and browsed their connections. Since I'm one of their connections, I am on the list. However, I am not sure I really need a little flag labelled "YOU" to recognize my own name...

It seems I've had a visit from Captain Obvious.

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I feel a disturbance in the store...

And now for something completely different: I recently found out about a hilarious video series on YouTube about "Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager." Chad Vader is the "less charismatic brother of Darth Vader."

If you haven't seen this yet, you need to check it out - especially if you're a Star Wars fan. There are currently 6 episodes - here is Episode One to get you started.

Then, check out the rest of the episodes (for best results, watch them in order). By the way - in my opinion, Episode 6 is the best of them all. Enjoy!

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All quiet on the southern front

You may have noticed the lack of posting the past few days - I'm just wrapping up a very busy week in Australia, so I haven't had the cycles to do any posting, of late.

More to come, including how I whipped jet lag on this trip. Meanwhile, enjoy this picture from the Melbourne zoo!

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Five things I learned in January

In the Joyful Jubilant Learning forum at the end of January, folks started sharing five things they learned in January. Sounded like a fun idea (and I like that it isn't a "go tag 5 more people" kind of thing) so here is my list:

  1. I learned that Google Documents are a much better remote collaboration tool than things I've tried in the past (like Writeboard, for example).
  2. I learned that version 2 of RocketPost is a big improvement over version 1, and I'm glad I bought RocketPost as a blogging tool.
  3. I learned that ice and snow really throw my city for a loop.
  4. I learned that the American Red Cross has implemented a new "Double Red Cell" donation option through which you can donate 2 units of red cells at the same time.
  5. I learned that giving 2 units of red blood cells on Thursday, then going cross-country skiing on Saturday is a recipe for a tiring day in the snow.

Learn anything you want to share? Blog it and link back to the Joyful Jubilant Learning post on "Rapid Fire Learning".

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