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Re: Change is in the Air

foolery — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:02:42 -0000

Peace to you as you work through things.

Re: Change is in the Air

Marc Meyer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:55:02 -0000

Aaron, not the misery needs any more company but I too am going through some similar changes. It is truly a most volatile time in my life. As much as I think it's isolated to me, it is not. Does that give me solace? Absolutely not. I never talk about my personal life with anyone but decided to commiserate with you.

For me, I'm at the cross roads of my career. The cross roads prompted by the fact that I was given an ultimatum 3 months ago. I had till the end of October to generate more income for the company. Interesting statement given that I am not in a sales position. Made even moreso by the fact that the ceo is my sisters husband.

Trying to ignore that fact is very very difficult. Communication has dwindled to a cursory good morning and good evening. Uncomfortable would be a kind word in this case.

I'm not sure what the next few months will bring. Bankruptcy, being humbled, appreciating what you got, loving your immediate family, knowing who your true friends are, lack of sleep, stress, not eating, taking stock, resumes, brainstorming, applying for jobs, accepting the inevitable-all these thoughts and more come to mind.

I can relate on some levels what you're going through...

Marc

Re: What Would the United States Do for Mexico?

krug — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:58:40 -0000

Illegal immigration has much more to do with the fact that Mexico has such a high rate of unemployment and to be honest from a first hand perspective I would say this is directly to do with the drug trade in the US. If the US didnt buy so many drugs maybe just maybe Mexico would begin to develop industries instead many smart intelligent folks skip out on the good things and head straight into the business of trafficking drugs into the Big and Easy Land. Then violence erupts and well you lose some of the best and brightest minds to the violence of drug trafficking.

If the us were seriously interested in tackling the immigration problem they would first tackle the drug problem in the US. Legalize,Treat the Addicted, and Tax the Hell Out of It. Then instead of building fences work with US corporations to increase wages in US Corporated owned factories, sweatshops in border areas where so many goods are shipped.

At the end of the day I realize this will never happen due to greed. Until then poverty will continue to erode both countries headed down terribly wrong paths.

Re: “Sarah Palin” Makes an “amazing” Appearance on SNL with her Tina Fey Glasses

Mark Douglass — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:28:21 -0000

Stupid geotarded Hulu. When will they learn...

Luckily YouTube (so far) and NBC.com have the clip. Awesome skit!

Re: NFL FAIL (Or, how Hurricane Ike Helped Good Men Forget How to Do Business)

Cosine Jeremiah — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:33:29 -0000

I thought the impetus for the BYE week was so they have a way to schedule things when there are an odd number of teams in the NFL. Not necessary at the present, but it's been a nice bonus. I think if the impetus really had anything to do with a healing cycle, the first scheduled BYE weeks would be later in the season than week 3.

Of course, having your BYE week moved from week 10 to week 2 is indeed really annoying for all the reasons you mentioned, and MLB pulled a royal f-up over the Astros even worse just becacuse some rich guy did not want to give up the gate receipts for three games down there.

Re: Happy Birthday, Son

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:28:14 -0000

I might.

Re: Happy Birthday, Son

Erin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:15:56 -0000

Happy Birthday Devin! And if your Dad keeps this up I'm going to brand him a Daddy blogger, for fun. Aaron- you should write like this more often.

Re: What Would the United States Do for Mexico?

Lisa (@illuminato) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:02:25 -0000

Well said.

Re: John McCain Acceptance Speech Weak and Sleepy. FAIL.

$7460 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:38:08 -0000

True that.

Re: John McCain Acceptance Speech Weak and Sleepy. FAIL.

supermom_in_ny — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:32:03 -0000

I agree!

Re: Palin a Homerun Among GOP

CoachDeb — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:02:08 -0000

This is fascinating to me that you're saying Palin is a marketing gimmick, yet not see that about Obama.

To say you've "had a year and a half to see him debate and hear his ideas." Debate who? People in his own party who are two sides of the same coin? McCain has been inviting OBama to debate him townhall style, yet Obama has refused. Why? What is he afraid of?

You speak of packaged propoganda and "getting to know Obama" but staged speeches to win nomination of his own party surely doesn't help me get to "know" anyone.

A heartbeat away from the Presidency is a mantra I hear on mainstream media, yet what about THE heartbeat OF the President in re: to experience. Is this not complete hypocrisy?

Perhaps the gimmick is that she was picked to have their opponent's side AGREE that experience in the highest office IS in fact important.

Re: Indictment on Modern Day Conservatism

Kat — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:13:27 -0000

"Reality says that the above description describes modern day liberalism pretty well."

That sounds more like libertarianism to me. I agree with you on one point though, modern conservatism is not what it used to be.

Re: The Best Pro-Obama McCain Ad EVAR

Bryan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:08:27 -0000

this video is really a betrayal.
there is more to it than you can see if you actually freezeframe.
there is an article about the techniques they are using, actually pretty high tech, big dollar marketing.
pay special attention to just how distorted Obamas face looks while he is in front of the crowds cheering, waving their signs,.
why is his face is so distorted and scary looking while the signs, moving and jumping, still read clear as day?

Re: I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…

Matthew — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:55:03 -0000

Hi Aaron. What's good? gettin by here in Charlotte...

Re: I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:50:08 -0000

heheh. What's up, Matt?

Re: I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…

Matthew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:42:28 -0000

Unbelievable! It's the most unsightly display of grown men in short shorts but nonetheless it brings back some great memories...

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

drew olanoff — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:42:52 -0000

What I meant was, a lot of the people complaining about what was being said during the keynote (very few of them) had a chance to stand up there AT the conference and be a part of the conversation, but chose not to.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:07 -0000

See ya.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Alex Williams — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:27:43 -0000

Fun, huh? You were being a punk. Shows in your reply, too. What a joke. I look forward to watching your slow decline.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:21:25 -0000

Eh #suckit, Dan. I was having fun.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Alex Williams — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:12 -0000

Drew - I am not sure what you are saying. Can you explain yourself a bit more? I heard you talking about this a bit at Gnomedex but not sure of your point. Aaaron - you know what really gets to me about your rant? You use a limerick as a way to demean Sarah. That is link baiting at its worst, sloppy blogging at best.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Cassie Wallender — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:31:43 -0000

There was no lack of people standing and commenting, however.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

drew olanoff — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:51:28 -0000

A lot of the folks who had things to say on Twitter who were at Gnomedex had the opportunity to stand and comment, but didn't.

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Mona Nomura — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:53:11 -0000

Makes perfect sense. Thank you for taking the time to explain, Aaron :)

Re: Gnomedex, Sarah Lacy Limerick

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:51:10 -0000

It was aimless. And it didn't really have any meat. Gnomedex doesn't want
shallow feel good sessions. They want something to sink teeth into and
challenge thought process. It was also very echo chambery.

I think the audience did a pretty good job of self-correcting, one of the
nice things about an open and honest Gnomedex conference.