Here’s something to think about over the weekend. A little homework… for your brain.
Recently I was lucky enough to have lunch with Guy Kawasaki and, as we ate our TGI Friday’s Cheddar Bacon Sliders, he told me the top five things you need for success in the coming economy (which will suck, by the way).
- Perseverance.
- Gumption.
- Stick-to-it-ivness.
- Creativetuity.
- A Leatherman.
- The ability to think outside the box enough to go ahead and put a sixth thing on that list of five things.
Since this is the kind of sage analysis you cannot pay for, I paid for lunch. He picked up the tip.
I mean literally. I put the tip down on the table and he picked it up as we were walking out.
I think, um, I think he didn’t think I saw him or something.
Mmmmm……cheddar and bacon. Apocalypse is starting out right.
Do extra Leathermans compensate for other deficits on the list? Because I’ve got five or six of those suckers.
By the way, John, you have finally produced a good-looking website! (Too bad form isn’t everything.)
Somehow it always comes around to leather, doesn’t it?
John, I don’t see a calendar—when is the hydroponics workshop?
@Ace: No and yes.
@Sudo: Yes.
@Ace again: Hydroponics is out. Instead we’re going to have “How to maximize cash flow by selling water to radiation victims”.
Don’t have a Leatherman but do possess a Topeak. Has more Allen Keys so it’s better for servicing Allens. Sadly lack of Allens in Croydon but will be researching Neasden soon, as our Mayor has carked.
Can we get a MegaPost going here?
I can’t believe it — all these years Alan Keyes has been a player in U.S. politics, and I never once thought of making jokes about Allen keys. I’ve got to face up to it — I’ve lost it. Maybe I never even had it.
We could always use a wrench to fix the economy. Call it the Allen Greenspanner or something.
Speaking of the economy, what is the business model here at ApocoTips? Invisible web ads?
Volume.
Oh, I get it: like Christopher Breen’s hair.
What’s with all the ’serious’ commentary ???
12th!
This site’s theme is called “Flaming Hair of Breen”.
11! oh, wait that’s for the old site and I’m really number 12. Hmmmm, perhaps start a new stupid tradition!
I got it, (so much thought went into this…), 12, yes, 12 will be the magic number, not 1 or 11.
12!
(silence)
Ok, sigh…back to the drawing board.
So, you must have put a lot down for the tip then, eh?
#5: Check.
Comments! I’d have clicked sooner if I’d known there’d be comments. After pie, comments are, well… somewhat less important, to tell the truth.
Tip for surviving this year: Follow the pie!
Such a nice clean place here… No tunnels, no genetically mutated animals running rampant.
Wow.. The walls are still shiny, too. *sniff, sniff* Ahhhh.. that new webpage scent still in the air as well.
Well, don’t worry John, we’ll have that taken care of in no time at all!
Oh, by the way, the Gerber tool is preferred by lighting technicians everywhere, as it can be removed from the pouch, opened, used, then returned single handed.
Really.
Gerber. Absolutely. Allows the consumption of cheddar bacon sliders while simultaneously wielding the all-in-one.
Do you think he’s gone on hiatus here as well?
The apocalypse has been unavoidably postponed.
Another ten years should see me out.
Nxxx, inside every broken-down old person is a fresh young person trying to get out.
No, wait … that’s “Alien.”
Jokes aside, that’s true. I just haven’t figured out how to get my old brain transplanted into a young body. It’s really hard to find the right documents.
Standard organ-donor card won’t cover it.
You are wrong Ace.
Inside me there are two fresh young people.
There’s more than one kind of leatherman. Mine has chaps.