This figurine is pretty funny to me.
It reminds of a childhood friend who was a fighter type.
Whenever somebody got on his nerves, he would bellow out in his machismo way:
I kill your whole family with one punch!
Honestly, it wasn’t all that scary a threat even as it echoed.
But it was comical when everyone else would mimic the saying at the slightest annoyance.
Kids are people too, wakadoo wakadoo! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
I love the saying by Rav Zvi Yehudah Cook:
There are people with hearts of stone, and there are stones with hearts of people.
The people know who they are, and the stones reside where has G-d set them.
In the final redemption, the peoples’ hearts will turn back to Hashem and the stones with hearts will rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Memorial for the 23,741 fallen soldiers and 3,150 victims of terror.
Brave, strong, and dedicated to the survival of Israel.
May their memory be a blessing!
Also a beautiful video my daughter, Minna sent to me.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
I love FANUC industrial robots.
They are made by a secretive company in Japan and they are #1 in workplace automation worldwide!
They have over half a million installed industrial robots around the world.
Their robots are on assembly lines making everything from “cars and smartphones to beverages and drugs.” They also are in Tesla and Amazon…so you know they are pretty much everywhere.
FANUC has customers in 108 countries supported by 263 service locations.
Their robots are made by…that’s right other robots…80% is automated.
These robots are strong, fast, and precise, and they can do dangerous work.
This company is the future of jobs, productivity, efficiency.
But of course, people are still the brains behind the brawn. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Really liked this robot (Cubebot) in the store.
Love the colors and that you can change the pose in all different ways.
This robot is pretty darn cute!
It’s funny in this sitting position though.
Just want to say:
Don’t just sit there, do something!
Probably not that long before robots will be all over the place.
We’ll wish for just a little privacy from the darn things, just like from our 24/7 computer gadgets that we can’t let go of now.
Yes, we’re hopelessly dependent on the technology–it’s so helpful and we love it, but we can’t turn it off.
They won’t be sitting for long.
Robots–big and small, alone and in swarms, male and female, strong and intricate, smart and simple, worker and homemaker, doer and helper, companion and lover, where will it stop–it won’t. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So this is a new type of project management and it can be very effective.
It’s called (my name):
Shock and Awe Project Management
This technique is similar to the military doctrine of shock and awe that uses speed and overwhelming power to dominate the battlefield and vanquish the enemy.
In project management too, there are often naysayers, Debbie Downers, resisters, excuse makers, and people that lay down obstacle after obstacle to progress.
This invariably derails projects and causes them to fall behind schedule, go over budget, experience scope creep, not meet the genuine user requirements, and ultimately fail!
However, if you manage the project with “shock and awe” and set aggressive timelines, assign substantial and very good resources, and move the project full speed ahead, then you can similarly create a momentum to the project that enables it to overcome the “enemies of the progress” (i.e. those that don’t really want it to succeed or are too busying covering their own a*ses).
This approach is not advocating speed at the expense of quality nor is it calling for cutting corners or riding roughshod over people, but rather to the contrary, it calls for techniques similar to the military of moving with absolute focus, determination, efficiency, collaboration, synchronization, and overwhelming “project power” to ensure it’s success.
Projects, like battles, can be “won” by putting the right resources on the field and moving them to get quick wins in rapid succession (where the enemies of progress don’t stand a real fight) so that the projects get not only completed on time and within budget, but most importantly to real stakeholder satisfaction and the organization’s success.
(Source Photo: here with attribution to AlexVan)
Just thought these were some really cool work gloves.
“Ironclad Industrial Impact–Rigger Cut”
These were just hanging around the local clothing store.
They not only look like superhero gloves covered in orange, yellow, and black duraclad padding ready to WHAM BAM!
But they also feel that way when you put them on with all the rubberized ruggedized protection.
Hmm, wonder whether these would be good in the gym for weightlifting…
Now who actually goes to work wearing these things? Its probably got to be a pretty “macho” man or women job. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
This was great when they drew this muscle guy on my coffee cup.
Two arms and a big “A” in the middle.
Need to remain strong despite whatever life throws at us.
So it’s not just strong coffee or biceps!
But rather strong character, integrity, spirit, and faith that’s really important.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal with compliments to the artist)
I was on the treadmill and on the TV was the movie Rambo First Blood with Sylvester Stallone–he’s incredible.
There is an amazing scene where he is running, outnumbered, outgunned, and being literally hunted in the woods.
But as he is a special forces trained warrior, he turns the tables on the bad guys.
– The hunted become the hunter!
Life is not Hollywood.
Yet, miracles do happen, and good can overcome evil.
Like the more than 150 brave women of the USA Olympics Gymnastics Team who testified and put the creep Larry Nassar away for the rest of his disgusting life.
The hunted can be empowered through the justice system and do what is right and put the bad guys away–where they should stay and rot out their miserable days.
The innocent women who suffered at his dirty hands prevail! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a smart saying from a colleague:
“If you ain’t the lead dog, the view doesn’t change.”
What the dogs upfront and those behind them see are quite a different view.
It’s important for the lead dogs to guide the other dogs in a good direction and stay clear from obstacles.
We may not all see the same thing, but whatever our viewpoints are, we all have to work together and pull our hardest towards progress.
It’s a race to the finish–and finish strong and together we all must. 😉
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Natalia Kollegova)
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