What forest? What trees?

Rocket crashes and English language suffers

A rocket crashes in the desert, bringing back to earth cremated humans who had hoped to spend eternity floating around the earth. Ah well. As the article claims, their form wasn't much changed in the crash. But the language suffered instead! This is how the mission director described what happened: "Because of an unexpected aerodynamic effect, the vehicle was short of its effected range."

With a little help from my friends

Steve Shapiro, who I interviewed for the Cool Friends section of tompeters.com asked me to speak to the New England National Speakers Association, for which he is President Elect. I spoke about my work with Tom Peters, what we do to extend the brand via his books and pamphlets and his blog. It was the first time I had spoken to a group about my work like that and I think it went quite well. People enjoyed my presentation and I think they learned a couple of things. Then Steve went ahead and put together a list of the main points of my talk, at least from his perspective, and I have to agree with him. His summation will be my beginning point for the next talk like this. Thanks, Steve.

Norwegian flag hat

Norwegian flag hat, originally uploaded by erikorama.

Tom Peters was recently traveling in Norway and Sweden and he sent me this Norwegian flag winter hat. Which reminds me that I ought to start a hat of the day type of post. He mentions my Norwegian-ness in this post over at tompeters.com.