This weekend John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate this fall. I’m not going to talk about how unknown she is or how inexperienced she may be. What I want to say is that for a mom of five and a former runner up Miss Alaska- she is still kinda [...]

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Once again I have to apologize for more late posts- I’m blogging from my hotel room in Newton- Rebecca’s getting married this weekend and I’ve been all over the place this weekend.
Well recently we held the draft for my office’s fantasy football league. It was the first one I participated in this season and I [...]

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Here’s the latest thing I’ve gotten excited about: The Democratic National Convention.
Of course this is the breakthrough year for me and politics- living in the Washington DC area during a historic election year will do that to ya.
I really love the the DNC’s website that has steaming HD video clips- so I can keep up [...]

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Ray Oldenburg defines The Third Place as the environment for social interaction outside of work and home, the two typical environments that we thrive in.
I need that Third Place.
I really feel that I haven’t been as productive at home as I would like- it took me almost all summer just to finish all changes to [...]

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I enjoy Asians comedians. It’s weird when you think of an Asian comedian- definitely not the line of work most Asians choose. But it’s people like Dr. Ken, Henry Cho, Bobby Lee, Steve Byrne, Kevin Shea, and even Dat Phan that make me feel that even I can be funny. However we cannot forget the [...]

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Did your phone go off?
At 3 AM yesterday tons of phones were sent messages that read:
“Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!”
The Obama campaign said they would send out a text message when Obama picks a running [...]

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Well yesterday was the big draft at my office- they’ll be more on that later. This week I wanted to share some awesome videos that I ran across during my draft prep this week.
It appears that for the past three years NFL.com and Reebok have been producing short little viral videos to help get some [...]

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In this latest NP blog post I explain why I love Wegman’s and their Sushi:
http://undercurrents.tmgstrategies.com/2008/08/20/hyped-on-hypermarts/

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I almost didn’t find the right bottle.
I was rushing through the isles of Harris Teeter, scanning labels for the right one. At the end of the Napa Valley section I found what I’ve been searching for- a Virginia wine. I took home a local chardonnay but we’ll get back to that later.
I had another rant [...]

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This morning I was reading the Washington Post’s article on Michael Phelps record setting 8th Gold Medal at this year’s Olympic Games. Hear what his relay teammate Aaron Peirsol had to say:

“The term Spitzian feat is kind of outdated,” Peirsol said. “Now, it might be Phelpsian feat.”
Buzz is always created when a record is about [...]

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