PETER SHANKMAN

Saturday:Photo taken with the new GoPro Camera at around 3,000 feet over Skydive Sebastian, Sebastian, Florida. Sunday:Miami Half-Marathon: 1:57:42. What’d you do?

Interesting read from Network World: Reporter asked Nokia if the blow-up/catch-fire/death-killer phone was a Nokia. Nokia hemmed and hawed enough to make a dress. Thanks MB for the link.

Great read from Business 2.0 – Top PR Mistakes. Technically, dumbest moments in business, but they’re virtually one in the same.

From President Theodore Roosevelt. "It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

Walking to a meeting with Microsoft today, I came across another second-coming image off 10th Avenue. I imagine some higher power being all like, "yeah, let’s do a lost-ark of the covenant thing just a bit west of Times Square today." Then tonight, after dinner with my friend Sarah, I stopped at BJ’s Wholesale Club to stock up on supplies. Kitty litter, soda, Fitness Water, toothpaste, etc. I LOVE that store. It’s sick and fun and scary. For years, I’ve joked about BJ’s. "Oh, it’s the place you go when you need five gallons of Mayo." You know, that’s what everyone says about that place. So what do I see when I’m heading to the check-out line? You got it. [...]

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