I don’t know about you, but as a kid I had dreams of owning just 3 things:
K.I.T.T.
Street Hawk
AirWolf
I remember watching the last 20 minutes of these shows (since that’s the only time they ever showed what these machines could do) and being in awe of the technology and pure testosterone my TV was oozing. People may wonder why I’m such a tech freak . . . well, these 3 vehicles are a big reason why!
Now being the “mature” 30 year old man I am today, I’ve become more realistic in my dreams. Now . . I just want Airwolf and holy gobbles of goose shit . . . a replica of Airwolf is being sold on eBay for about $40k!
Anyone want in on this?
Check out the Listing Here!
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Ever since I’ve started this blog, I’ve always had this dream to do something that will affect the world in a positive manner. Last year, I came up with a pretty diabolical link train that I think Google still hates me for. It was insanely popular and I still see links come in from stragglers who just learned of the train last week so I know how huge something can get if everything is lined up correctly. I also just saw a rerun of “Pay It Forward” last weekend and thought it’d be nice to try the same idea on the internet. I’m sure this has probably been done here and there, but this train won’t ask for anything crazy. One tiny gesture of kindness can go a long way so I want to see how kind we all can be offline.
Here’s a list of 20 things I thought would cover most nice gestures, just in case you evil people out there forget what your heart felt like :).
- Write a Letter to an Old Person - Yes, a letter with a pen, paper, stamp and envelope. For you young whipper snappers who don’t what I’m talking about, google it. I know “Old Person” is a pretty relatively term, so think of someone your grandparents age. If that’s too old, then write to a friend you haven’t spoken to in over 10 years.
- Teach someone younger than you how to do something new - i.e. fishing, changing the oil, dicing an onion, riding a bike, etc.
- Call someone who’s sick and make them smile.
- Go through your closet and find 3 nice peices of clothing you don’t wear anymore and donate them to a local clothing drive.
- Talk to the shyest person you know.
- Let someone ahead of you in line.
- Fix something for someone.
- Do something nice for someone and don’t let them know that it was you who did it.
- Read a story to a small child.
- Pay the Toll/Parking for the car in back of you.
- Volunteer at the local homeless shelter.
- Tell the manager of a restaurant how great your waiter/waitress was.
- Pull over and help someone that’s stranded on the side of the road.
- Return the grocery cart for someone at the supermarket.
- Give up your restaurant table to an elderly couple.
- Offer to babysit your friend’s children.
So, this is how it’s going to work:
1. Pick one of these nice gestures and do it.
2. Share your experience - Email, Youtube, Twitter, Blog Post or at a Club Meeting.
3. In the same announcement, challenge your network to do perform one of these gestures as well. If possible, display this list of 20 gestures to make it easier for them to think of something to do.
That’s it. I’m not asking for links. I’m not asking for any sort of credit for this idea. I just want to see how far this can go and hopefully by Christmas of this year, everyone will have at least one story to share about a good deed they have performed.
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This guy is on POINT! For all you up and comers, memorize and internalize this performance!
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I wake up to the KTLA morning news every morning and they have this special segment at 9am that is hosted by the women of the show. I guess the weatherman, Mark Kriski, couldn’t take it anymore and took full advantage of a segment called “Sound-Off” to go off on everything from dead beat moms to earth day to people who play with used golf clubs to even the playful dolphins!
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First of all, I want to wish Steve Jobs a speedy recovery from his Pancreatic cancer treatments. I know it’s not a easy cancer to recover from and wishes him well.
Next, if you missed the Apple event today, they just announced the release of their iPhone Developer’s Kit which gives developers the blueprints of how programs work on iPhones. What this means to the average consumer is that we’re going to get a lot of NICE programs for our iPhone now without having to hack at it and worry that our iPhones are going to turn into glorified paper weights.
Why is Apple sitting pretty you may ask? Well, for those of you who missed my Steve Jobs is a Genius post a couple of months ago, I pretty much nailed what he was going to do today regarding the distribution and compensation of iPhone apps. There are going to be a lot of newly rich developers coming out this year.
My apologies for telling people to invest in Apple stock when it was at 160-ish and now is in the 120’s (blame that on the weak US dollar and fear of recession), but I’ve put my money where my mouth is and have invested even more into Apple stock. They’re going to have a VERY nice 2nd half of the year.
Who wants to think otherwise?
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