When I got back from lunch yesterday I’m waiting for the elevator door to open, and as it opens I see two people waiting to step off, my cubemate and my business hero, the legendary Herb Kelleher. Herb stuck out his hand and said hello to me as if he knew me for years. For the rest of the day, I was in a tizzy. There are just a few people that I actually want to shake hands with, Herb, of course was one of them. If you are a dedicated reader of this blog, you can probably guess some of the others.
Now if I can only get a picture with him.
The only adequate thing that I can describe that handshake is to liken it to when He-Man summons the Power of Grayskull.
I bet the average American can name more NASCAR drivers than NHL players, which tells you that if the NHL wants to grow its audience it needs to work on getting their players out in the mainstream.
DFW seems to always have a new subdivision being built, and in the summers there’s always water restrictions, which makes me wonder why houses aren’t build with some sort of rain water catching device to store water underground to use to water the lawn during the summer.
A best friend of mine (a math major) loved the movie Stand and Deliver which starred Edward James Olmos who played the real life Jaime Escalante, a math teacher who took a bunch of “unteachable kids” in L.A. and created a nationally acclaimed calculus program. Unfortunately Escalante has cancer and is having trouble paying his medical bills, but Olmos and the cast are doing what they can to help out with the expenses.
I goofed the other day when I posted what I thought was a cool looking logo for the London 2012 Olympics. Thanks to reader Sam, you can view the ugly looking logo here.
"Herb stuck out his hand and said hello to me as if he knew me for years. For the rest of the day, I was in a tizzy" Maybe he was struck by your facial stubble and geeky personality? [kidding] I heard on "Mike and Mike" of ESPN radio this morning that the NHL is seriously considering dropping out of the Winter Olympics in 2014. I wonder how many people realized that the NHL shut down for 2 1/2 weeks so their players could play in the Olympics. The league was probably not all that happy that most of their games were on MSNBC rather than NBC.
"Herb stuck out his hand and said hello to me as if he knew me for years. For the rest of the day, I was in a tizzy" Maybe he was struck by your facial stubble and geeky personality? [kidding] I heard on "Mike and Mike" of ESPN radio this morning that the NHL is seriously considering dropping out of the Winter Olympics in 2014. I wonder how many people realized that the NHL shut down for 2 1/2 weeks so their players could play in the Olympics. The league was probably not all that happy that most of their games were on MSNBC rather than NBC.