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Jacob Tucker Can Fly
I don’t really need to say much more than the post title. The embedded video says it all. NCAA Basketball needs this kid in the 2011 dunk contest. By the way, he’s 5’11″ tall.
Derrick Rose – Rising to the Top
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Three young fans are walking alone after leaving the United Center. They’re the last to go, so they’re all alone. A white SUV pulls up next to them. This part of Chicago could use a shave and a clean shirt, so somebody rolling up on you isn’t usually happy news. The young men try not to look. The window comes down and who is behind it but Derrick Rose himself, The Heir to Air.Their mouths fall unhinged.
“Hey, man, just want to thank you guys for taking time to come out,” Rose says. “Really appreciate it.”
Their voice boxes go mute.
“And thanks for wearin’ my jersey, too!” Rose says to one of them.
Their eyes fail to blink.
Finally, one of them, Martin Campoverde, 23, gulps, “What’s it feel like playing in your hometown?”
Rose pauses and smiles. “Greatest thing ever happened to me,” he says. “This is the greatest city in the world.”
Window goes up. SUV drives off. Year is made.
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This Rick Reilly article may have cemented Derrick Rose as my current favorite NBA player. His attitude toward others combined with his humility make him as good off the court as he is on it. It doesn’t hurt that this dunk is something that only one other point guard (Russell Westbrook) could even dream of pulling off:
Multi-screen Overload?
The setup until we move
Overnight, the snow came to St. Louis. I’ve heard that some of the surrounding municipalities received well over ten inches. At my house in South St. Louis City, we received around 5 inches of snow. Why am I writing about snow? Simple. We have one AWD vehicle, and since my wife has to be in the office if the Stock Market is open, that vehicle is hers.
What that means is that I worked from my home office. With today’s technology, all I’m missing is the ability to meet with my co-located coworkers face-to-face. Everything else is business as usual. Conference calls and web meetings happen just as though I was sitting in my office in Des Peres.
Shawn McPike, Social Media Customer Care Strategist at AT&T (@shawnmcpike), tweeted about his multi-screen setup at the office yesterday. That stuck with me as I was working at home today, which brings me to the main difference when working from home. It’s all about screen(s) real estate. I have an older LCD monitor, left from our last desktop that bit the dust, and I use it with my work laptop so I have a dual-screen setup at home. The monitor isn’t as big/new as mine at the office, but it does the trick. Then there’s our 24″ iMac. Add an iPad with stand and an iPhone (or multiple if you count the old 3G I was formatting when the photo was taken) and I can monitor production sites and social feeds while maintaining uninterrupted control over web meetings and everything I’m editing on the laptop.
If it was in the budget to have more than one monitor at the office, not including the laptop screen, I would jump at the opportunity. I would be even more productive if I could monitor email on the laptop screen, while editing a spreadsheet on a second screen, and word doc on a third. Throw in a fourth screen in panorama, and I could be viewing a web meeting at the same time. Hey, it could happen. Right? Maybe someday I’ll try to quantify the increase in productivity in going from one screen to two (or more).
This looks about right