2nd Half

I couldn't help myself...I came across this post titled "New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple tap and long press" and felt compelled to share several other heretofore unknown gestures that one might imagine if one were to develop their own set of crude, teenage gestures. Voila!

We found ourselves coming home from the mall and followed this beautiful Chevy right in front of us. We didn't get a full view, but from what we saw and the photos my son took, and some copious googling, it looks a lot like a 1940 Chevy. Anyone have a better date on this?

 

Se. Kent Conrad of North Dakota just shocked the hell out of me. He said that 50% of Medicare spending goes to 5% of Medicare recipients who are chronically ill. He went on to say that this is primarily due to poorly coordinated care, citing that these patients take, on average, 16 different prescription medications. He continued to say that this is largely due to a total lack of coordination and that most often, many of these prescriptions should not be being taken.

As expected, all the media wants to do is figure out "who's winning" the healthcare debate. They're more partisan than the politicians. Sickening!

This question and answer item from Tim Cook, COO of Apple, says a lot about why they are dramatically successful with most of the products they develop.

Q: How do you stop hubris from creeping in?
A: [The] Executive team in the company spends a lot of time thinking and discussing how to retain and recruit the best talent in the world. At the end of the day, I know it's a cliche, but people are our most important asset in the world by far. It's people who deliver innovation. We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose. The table each of you are sitting at today, you could probably put every product on it that Apple makes, yet Apple's revenue last year was $40 billion. I think any other company that could say that is an oil company. That's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones. I think this is so ingrained in our company that this hubris you talk about that happens to companies that are successful and sole role in life is to get bigger, I can tell you the management team at Apple would never let that happen. That's not what we're about. Small list of things to focus on.

HS ball at it's best...SHHS went on to win 47-40!!!

Now, on to the finals agains University on Saturday night. Sadly, we'll have to miss it due to family travel.