Good Morning Thinkers!

Blog-tionary

Some people just have a different way of looking at things. Jonathan Vehar, senior partner at New and Improved, a consulting company that creates innovation teams, has just tiptoed into the world of blogs and sent us this message:

Fun to participate in the blog...my first one. However, now that I have, I wonder about the language. To wit:

-- If you write lots and lots because you are in flow, are you on a blog-roll?
-- Conversely, if you have writers block, is that a blog-jam?

The World Isn't Always Right

The WORLD isn't always right ...

"If you stay committed,
your dreams can come true.
I'm living proof of it.
I left home at 17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years.
I wrote more than 20 screenplays, but I never gave up."
-- Michael Blake, author of "Dances with Wolves"

"Sensible and responsible women
do not want to vote."
-- Grover Cleveland, 1905

Zero Gravity

Heard on the Net: (urban legend per comment below ... but a principle worth remembering.)

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they
quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work
in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA
scientists spent several years and a $1 million
development project to produce a
pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on
almost any surface, including glass, and at temperatures
ranging from well below freezing to over 200 F.

The Russians used a pencil.