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Child Genius!


Child Genius
Don’t you just love these genius kids that make you feel like you got cheated when it came to the talent pool? This little guy is a guitara virtuoso! He is gonna be a big hit with the chicks when he grows up! Watch out!

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Graphic Design Nazi!


Honestly when you work as an in-house design team – no matter how fun or rockin your job is, every now and then.. you know.. you feel that little pang of the GD Nazi regime! :) This is hysterical, but if you are a GD or in Marketing, you will HOWL!

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So you are having a BAD DAY at work!


One of those days when you want to throw your lap top, pc, Mac, iphone, blackberry, co-worker out the window? Yes, we have all had those days, but don’t lose it man! Live vicariously through this video and then grab some coffee and GO BACK TO YOUR CUBE! :)

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Women ON TOP!


Some of the women who have made it to the top – You Go Girls!

1. Indra Nooyi

CEO, PepsiCo (PEP)
2005 rank: 11
Age: 50
Pepsi’s brand-new chief (as of Oct. 1) is a powerful force behind the consumer giant’s strong profit pipeline and $108 billion stock market valuation. Formerly CFO and president, the Indian-born strategist reached the top even though she never ran a line operation at Pepsi. Nooyi believes in constant reinvention: “The minute you’ve developed a new business model, it’s extinct, because somebody is going to copy it.”
2. Anne Mulcahy
Chairman and CEO, Xerox (XRX)
2005 rank: 2
Age: 53
An emphasis on color copiers, digital presses, and systems that can copy, fax, print, and scan has helped the turnaround magician (aided by No. 27 Ursula Burns) continue to drive steady growth at the $15.7 billion company. Thanks to the iGen printer, which cost more than $1 billion to develop, Xerox is also a market leader in color commercial printing. In 2005 the company launched 49 new products.
3. Meg Whitman
CEO and President , eBay (EBAY)
2005 rank: 1
Age: 50
Whitman’s task is to figure out how to put the shine back in one of the brightest stars of the Internet age (see story, page 158). Last year’s acquisitions have failed to bring in big revenue, and U.S. traffic growth has slowed. That has translated into a slumping stock, down about 40% in the past year; market cap is now $37 billion. The Internet phone provider Skype won’t bring in profits anytime soon—the service remains free until the end of the year. In July the company announced a $2 billion stock buyback, eBay’s first.
4. Pat Woertz
CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
2005 rank: 6
Age: 53
Talk about a brief retirement. In March the 29-year Chevron veteran stepped down from running the $194 billion company’s downstream division. By May she had stepped into the corner office at the $37 billion agribusiness giant. Woertz’s energy expertise is expected to guide ADM’s push in renewable fuels (see story, page 166). Her timing was impeccable: Riding a commodities boom, ADM stock has had a good run.
5. Irene Rosenfeld
CEO, Kraft Foods (MO)
2005 rank: 27
Age: 52
Taking the top job at Kraft was a homecoming for Rosenfeld, who spent 22 years at the company, then took a detour to PepsiCo to head the Frito-Lay unit. Now back at Kraft, the world’s second-largest food company (2005 revenues: $34 billion), she is facing major challenges. Several years into its restructuring plan, Kraft’s sales are sluggish. Rosenfeld’s next move: preparing for the widely expected spinoff from parent company Altria.
6. Brenda Barnes
Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee (SLE)
2005 rank: 3
Age: 53
Barnes inherited a mish-mash of companies when she became CEO last year. So she began selling noncore businesses like Hanes apparel to focus on food. The divested units made up 40% of Sara Lee’s revenues, which were $19.3 billion when Barnes took over and are expected to shrink to about $11.6 billion this year. The stock is still lagging, as Barnes has been forced to lower the company’s long-term targets.
7. Andrea Jung
Chairman and CEO, Avon (AVP)
2005 rank: 5
Age: 48
Jung’s turnaround plan for the $8 billion beauty company is on track to reach $200 million in annual savings. Key markets like the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are struggling. Russia is doing well, though, and so is China, where Avon has shifted from department stores to direct sales.
8. Oprah Winfrey
Chairman, Harpo Inc.
2005 rank: 4
Age: 52
Move over, Howard Stern. Oprah took to the radio waves in September with the launch of Oprah & Friends, an XM Satellite Radio network. In January her $40 million Leadership Academy for Girls will open in South Africa.
9. Sallie Krawcheck
CFO, Head of Strategy, Citigroup (C)
2005 rank: 7
Age: 41
Krawcheck and CEO Chuck Prince have spearheaded major changes at the financial services giant (market cap: $247 billion), including the sale of the asset-management and life insurance and annuity businesses. But with rising interest rates and a weaker housing market, Citigroup has been missing its earnings targets.
10. Susan Arnold
Vice Chair, Beauty and Health, Procter & Gamble (PG)
2005 rank: 17
Age: 52
In April the P&G lifer added the personal health, oral care, and pharmaceutical businesses to her beauty portfolio. At $29 billion in sales, her divisions bring in 42% of P&G’s revenues. Down the line, she’s a contender for an even bigger job: CEO.

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Deja Vu (DVD of the Month!)


Deja Vu:

Pretty Cool. A wild ride. I liked this movie. I wont give away anything. See it if you like action, Denzel and a mildly cool ending. I would say the major problem with it was that they introduce you to this really cool thing that you want to know more about outside of the context of the story.. how it works, what else they are going to use it for, etc… but they tied it so deeply into this one plot that it wasnt the star of the movie, which it really should have been – then they could have done Deja Vu II, and III

It is pretty good and for some reason Jim Cavesial (not sure how you spell his name, Jesus in the Passion) chose to take a tiny role in this film.. which weirded me out.

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A little Fairytail…



Category: Writing and Poetry
Princess Charming

Once Upon a time in a land far far… well it wasn’t that far… but pretty far.. Well..it was a good stretch of the legs from… well it all depends on where you are located actually perhaps it happened near by.. In any case, from where I live it is just a metrolink ride away.. So to get back to the point.

There once lived a poor but handsome, buff, sexy.. Muscular.. Tattooed sailor type, you know with the long hair and the full lips… tan and… *ahem* excuse me… Well, he lived in this old run down shack.. A hovel.. A lean-to.. It was actually his old man’s tool shed, after his father died.. Of some seedy disease, his step mother… who had two sons of her own.. One scrawny, the other of the extreme opposite body type… made him live in the tool shed.. He was forced to wait on his two un-manly type bros from sun up …well again to the next sun up.. And well it was a constant thing.

He had to serve them breakfast in bed.. Wash their clothes.. Clean the pool.. Feed the gerbil… He was even forced to do the marketing… (which he hated most of all).. From his tool shed on the hill, he could see the towers of a huge Mansion… Someone said that Madonna lived there.. But that story was unconfirmed.. When he had finished his chores… well he never finished his chores, bcz there was always more to do.. I mean the boy’s work was never done.. So in reality he would just take a cigarette break in between spin and rinse cycles.. And he would look up at the spires.. And dream of Princess Charming… he had met her Once Upon a Dream.. La la la da da da.. Oh… Well, he knew that someday.. She would come to rescue him from his impoverished state and kiss his dish pan hands.. And make it all better…

One day..I think it was in May… no it was too hot for may… and the Oscars had long since past.. It must have been July.. In any case– an invitation came to the family from the big mansion where Madonna supposedly lived.. Low and behold it was not from the Queen of Mainstream Porn, but instead from Princess Charming.. She had invited “EVERY” male in the city of Angels.. Actually in the County.. And the County of L.A… well that is a big … well it’s a lot of males..

The poor boy had nothing to wear and so he wept unabashedly into the pool as he cleaned it…

“Oh whoa is me” I think is what he said.. Or was it “Oh S**t! I’m screwed!” I can’t be sure..

Behold! A really wiggy thing happened then.. It wasn’t that shocking for those of us who live in Hollywood– but for all the rest of you..well— a fairy appeared.. The fairy wore the height of fashion from 1976.. His eyes gleamed from beneath his Afro and he spoke:

“Man, what you cryin’ for?” He said, and shifted position.

The poor boy looked up at the fairy, and after admiring his general splendor; told him all about his problem and not having any threads worthy of the party…

To make a long story short.. Which is too late–
POOF! He waved his– I not sure what he waved– but in a flash the poor but virile boy.. Was now dressed in a crystal suit… and the fairy POOFED here and there, and after excusing himself, he made a stretch limo complete with jacuzzi and video shorties appear and then he drove away in it…

The poor boy hopped the RTD (that’s the public bus) to the party, and as he entered the ball room everyone’s eyes turned to him.. The room fell silent, except for a few gasps, here and there.. And of course that annoying person who always coughs when it is silent in a crowded room! Perhaps it was his handsome face, or his six pack abs.. Or his majestic height, or the way he carried himself… but I think more likely it was the fact that you could see right through his suit…

Anyway, Princess Charming rushed over and was so overwhelmed by his—uh— personality.. That she asked him to marry her and take her name.. And live in her house and maybe even share some of her stuff… He said Yes! Yes1 yes! and she bought him a HUGE diamond ring, a fur coat, and a Lamborghini Diablo SV! And of all her conquests, he was her favorite.. She later wrote in her memoirs….

And they lived pretty happily till the divorce in the summer of… uhh.. Well it was sometime after the Northridge earthquake.. I remember that…

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