July 2005 Archives
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Excel is fun! These high-tech counting techniques will allow you to count cells that contain a given range of numbers, or that match a basic pattern, or unique numeric values... Hot stuff, Excel geeks!
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If you're looking at my del.icio.us feed, you're probably not working. Maybe you'd like to click this one, then.
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Five-part LA Times story about a girl boxer. Great storytelling.
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Getcher Hillary Clinton Nalgene!
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Greg is having problems redeeming his "Free 1-liter Coke" winning bottle caps.
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Article comparing Wal-Mart's sick way of doing business to Costco's. Costco's CEO makes only $350,000 vs Wal-Mart's $5.3 million! Employees get paid better at Costco, and quit less. And each employee generates more profit for Costco than for Wal-Mart.
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Not design templates, but framework templates for your web pages.
In a recently released study, the average American worker admitted to spending 2.09 hours per day wasting time, citing personal internet usage as the #1 time-waster.
On the other hand, HR departments gave their permission to waste time. Just not that much time. "According to a Salary.com follow-up survey of Human Resource managers, companies assume that employees will waste 0.94 hours per day."
The difference in value from the amount of waste companies expect and the amount reported by employees is $759 billion!
I think the trick is to just skim a tiny bit off that $759 billion, and we'll all be rich. What if we tell people they should donate a dollar to us for each hour they waste? It'll be like a charity thing, to alleviate the guilt from screwing around at work. Total workers: 132 million. Hours wasted per person per year: 299. 132,000,000 people * 299 hours * $1 = $39,468,000,000.
It just took me fifteen minutes to write this, so I guess I owe the fund a quarter.
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article about time-wasting at work
New Jelly Belly Sport Beans, in Lemon-Lime and Orange flavors, contain electrolytes, vitamins C and E, and of course, all the refined carbohydrates you've come to expect from jelly beans.
Apparently, they're marketing them in association with the professional cycling team they sponsor, which makes a certain amount of sense. Pro cyclists eat all kinds of weird (read: gross) stuff on their bike to replenish lost calories and minerals.
Jelly Belly's VP of marketing poses it as a natural extension of how endurance athletes were already "using" Jelly Bellies: "Today's active adults and teens are exercising harder than ever, and are looking for optimal performance at play and in competition. We've heard from marathon athletes for years about how they use Jelly Belly beans for the carbohydrates they need to sustain energy and finish a race, so we developed a fun candy with additional nutrients the body needs during exercise."
BOOM, they went. They went boom.
