“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of shore.”
- Admiral Rickover
As I was gearing up to graduate from business school, one of my professors, Joel Peterson, challenged us to think differently by flashing the quote above in one of our last lectures.
Embracing this concept, I turned down an offer to go back to my previous employer and spent the next 4 months after school, unemployed, on an unfamiliar ocean.
source: gizmodo.com.au
A comment on Gizmodo said the staff at Dick Smith posted a sign outside one of their stores that read:
“Dear Customers,
As you may know, we are having a huge gaming sale starting from 2/4/12.
However due to the internet leak, our business will not drop 80% of what was listed until April 10th.
Thankyou (sic)”
Come on Dick, We’ve been totally happy with your store until you pulled this shambolic piece of sale on all of us. You don’t owe any of us consumers anything but next time if you’re going to do a huge sale, make sure you get your prices right before regretting on ripping yourselves off and shutting off the sale.
Thanks, by the way, tons of dick related insults are gonna come up right about now.
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-Aung San Suu Kyi brings forth a new era in Myanmar politics as her political party, the National League of Democracy took 40 of the 45 seats at stake during the recent by election that will see Suu Kyi head the opposition bloc in the military junta led nation. The Nobel Prize winner said that the success they are having is the success of the people.
-The bin Laden family is back in the news again. Pakistan has sentenced Osama’s widows, daughters to a 45 day house arrest for illegally living in Pakistan. our take on this? totally pointless of a sentence, kids are like 17 to 21.
-French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s pledge to squash Muslim extremists has taken it’s first course of action by deporting two foreign citizens accused of being Islamic radicals, with three more deportations to follow suit.
-Barack Obama soars in opinion poll while Mitt Romney stumbles
-Derryn Hinch just has the itch to name sex offenders doesn’t he? not that it’s a bad thing, but come on dude, you havea court suppression order on your head and possibly two years jail time for contempt of court. What gives?
Sports
- Has Malaysian badminton reached the point where it only has one marquee player and a bunch of rags surrounding that said player?
-Italy faces another bout of match fixing in its professional leagues as once again an Atalanta player has come out with a confession to make.
-The Kansas Jayhawks will play the Kentucky Wildcats in the 2012 NCAA Men’s Championship Game while Baylor will play Notre Dame in the Women’s division. (Kentucky +6.5)
Entertainment
-The Hunger Games are still no.1 after opening it’s first week at the one spot.
Quote of the day
“Either Romney will self destruct, or Romney will be the nominee,” Newt ‘The Newt’ Gingrich
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George Orwell’s 1984 has this decent movie that doesn’t really do it justice.
Remember when you’re reading books when you’re young, imagining what it would be if it happened in real time. You’d always imagined yourself as the protagonist of the story, or the narrator of it sitting high above everyone while you read yourself the story.
For example when I read Night Watch (which by the way is a wonderful book by Sergei Lukyanenko), it made me imagine what it’s like to be Anton, what it’s like to be a low lifer Light Other that’s struggling to make ends meet. While trying to figure my own in brain CGI and stunts from the story. All was well, until one day I was at the movie rentals and saw Night Watch the movie by Timur Bekmambetov, and it altered my book reading experience forever. Continue reading
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