May
13th
Thu
13th
May
3rd
Mon
3rd
Sometimes, you love being in That Situation
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- Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino after hitting a Grand Slam off of the Mets’ star two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana on May 2nd. Holding a 5-3 lead in the fourth, Santana missed on a full-count pitch to Phillies aging pitcher Jamie Moyer with two out, forcing in a run. Victorino followed with his second career grand slam and Utley went deep two batters later. Nine straight batters reached in the inning.
Yep, that’s right Shane. While the international embarrassment out of New Jersey calls himself The Situation, the habitually self-destructing one out of Queens will always be known as That Situation.
Apr
21st
Wed
21st
PSL Outsourcing Symposium 4/20
A brief introduction to outsourcing and ‘Automated Automations’ online, including ODesk, Mechanical Turk, ELance etc.
You can view and download the slide in this video here or follow along below.
Making outsourcing work for you (or getting other people to do your work)
Mar
12th
Fri
12th
Steve Welch Blog: What is the Right Question?
The following is one of a series of blog post that were written while I was in China in the spring of 2009 as part of my Eisenhower Fellowship. If you have interest in China’s culture I think you will enjoy this series.
What is the Right Question?
Who?
A question that leads to a…
Mar
2nd
Tue
2nd
The unintended effects of Enzyte, the once daily tablet for natural male enhancement.
Nov
2nd
Mon
2nd
Dear Brooke
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
-Junot Diaz
Oct
31st
Sat
31st
Sandwich Diplomacy: The real reason Al Queda hates America.
They’ve never had a Primo’s Hoagie! Maybe the State Department should use Unbreaded as a field manual.
“All of Human Kind has one thing in common … the sandwich. I believe that all anyone wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich. And who am I to say that my delicious Italian Sub is better than it’s Stone Mt (Georgia) equivalent? Which is why I will have a Carp Po’ Boy w/ extra Chuckle (Pig Taint).” - Liz Lemon
Amen Lemon, Amen.
Aug
25th
Tue
25th
When is PG too much?
Today I was notified by my alma-mater Penn State that it is hosting a contest for free football tickets on Facebook. Hey, free is free and I have a really great story I wanted to share so I indulged in their transparent ‘online marketing’ stunt.
The rules state:
Just go to the Penn State Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate and post your most memorable Penn State football moment.
And that’s exactly what I did. Here’s what I submitted:
At the Indiana home game in 2002 I was sitting in the student section frothing in what I would call a typical level ‘yellow’ rage when one of the Indiana’s defensive backs got hurt bad enough to stop the game. While the rest of the 100…,000+ stadium sat in respective silence as the medics tended to the obviously injured athlete I went into the ‘red’ zone. This monster I mutate into must be part shark because sensing there was blood on the field, literal and figurative, got me so worked up I went into a frenzy. With a deafeningly silent stadium praying, reflecting or sending general good vibes to the visiting student I stood on top of my seat and screamed “WHAT’S THE MATTER, DID YA HURT YOUR VAGINA?” Until that moment I had never really seen ‘utter disgust’ in a person’s face, especially not directed at me, but after that moment of ‘fan-turrets’ I turned around to see the entire student section shaking their heads in disbelief. From somewhere in the sea of white I heard “Dude, too muc”.
Then I went back and re-read the contest:
Just go to the Penn State Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pe
nnstate and post your most memorable Penn State football moment. Keep it “G-rated” and sober, please. (Inappropriate posts will be disqualified and deleted.)
Whoops … well that’s OK surely the mere mention of the word “Vagina” isn’t enough to bump my entry into the PG ratings and out of the contest, right? PSU, the number one party school in the United States, couldn’t possibly be offended by the only word to ryhme with ‘angina’ could they? Wrong. Five minutes later it was taken down. I guess that’s what I get for not joining the stupid Alumni Group.