Seeking to hire a super star Executive Assistant, i posted on CraigsList.org and received over 100 letters and resumes.  It appears the idea of proofing your resume for a job that requires good communication skills is not quite accepted by some people.  Examples of the more interesting statements included: Seeking a position to perform all my full potential worked with a high range of executives from the CEO of a top stationary comany I employ the opportunity to take on new and exciting task I am actively seeking an executive assistant within your company my secretarial skills, I am an adept event planner, having served on the committee for Halloween/Christmas Ball while working at XXXX Partners. I am very detail oriented and a very quick learner. Answered and transferred phone calls Sort and deliver faxes, mail and packages; Prepare labels for UPS and FEDEX i am great with the interenet I have strong experience in retail and restaurant operations. i am a well organize self-starter I decided it would be a good idea to find employment outside the gambling industry.  While I enjoyed living and working in a foreign country, the work lacked meaning and was arguably dangerous. Convinced British strangers to rent out their personal information for business purposes Served and greeted customers in fast-pace environment full of swank high rollers willing to buy $14 cocktails served in plastic cups I love my job, but i am looking for a new opportunity kind of a square peg in a round hole in terms of working in Investment Banking, however i thrive being in a supporting role. I am a recently retired ballet dancer that decided to go 9 to 5, but now i am looking to find a more suitable area of business. majoring in Marketting and minoring in English have a Positive attitude and a "can do" and "will do" attitude, great personality, great writing skills, strong computer skills, administrative and excellent communication skills , MS-Office Suite, Photoshop, Outlook, Html/ Web design, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, and Mac. "interested in working for your organization and i have attached my resume as a first step in exploring the possibilities of employment. As an employee for your organization, I guarantee to perform professionally, accurately, and …." Distributing incoming mail within the office I have done it all, weather it be corresponding on my employers behalf with permission, making expense reports, prioritizing projects, brainstorming

I am heading to Downtown Las Vegas to explore the community and get a handle on the vibe & the art scene. I have a dream to redesign and adapt the Life Cube concept from its Playa incarnation for similar installations in urban settings and museums around the world. This is the beginning of what I hope to be a lifetime journey.  Wish me luck! #dreambig #burningman2013 #ENVISIONTheLifeCube #changetheworld #BM2013 #urbanart #downtownlasvegas #thelifecubeartprojectatburningman #dtlv #thelifecubeprojectlifecubeprojectart #skeeter #cargocult #blackrockcity #artprojectatburningman #lifecube #artburningman #artatburningman #artincitiesaroundtheworld #BurningMan

After a huge amount of work, research, writing, and support from friends and colleagues, we submitted the proposal to create ENVISION: The Life Cube to Burning Man today. This year’s vision demonstrates my growth and metamorphosis as an artist, and also reflects the dedication of a new professional member of the Life Cube team: Kevin Pellón, principal/founder of DSB+ Architects/Interiors. Kevin has already begun working with our team of master carpenters, lighting engineers, graphic designers, photographers, fire fighters and many more. Together, their contributions have enabled us to pursue and to realize a more interactive, engaging and ambitious project.  Once again Gordy, Christian, Mark, JT and Trevor have all offered to help make The Life Cube a huge success.  I am also so grateful to Maria who facilitated introductions to Jeff Schomberg & Stu D’Alessandro who provided terrific guidance from their experience in working with artists and creating their own significant art installations in Black Rock City. Further, we are tremendously lucky and proud to have the enthusiastic support of the greater Burning Man community, centered around and expanding from the sixty-plus members of Camp Titicaca, who have adopted the Life Cube project as the major part of their aesthetic contribution to the ethos of Burning Man.  Last, I thank my lucky stars for Madeleine’s help.  There is no way that we could have come this far without her support and writing, re-writing, editing, and at times making sure I did not stray too far from my mission.  It is a BIG job to help take what is in my brain and get it down on paper so that others can understand and appreciate it.  (smile) Now we wait…hoping that Burning Man’s Art Grant Committee, which evaluates as many as 400+ proposals, will find our project worthy of consideration for partial funding.  Wish us luck. skeeter #art #TheLifeCube #ENVISIONTheLifeCube #titicaca #skeeter #ETLC #blackrockcity #BurningMan

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This will be the last Keynote at CES – he spoke her 11 times. Even as Gates is doing less at Microsoft, he still commands rock star status. Many people (not me) had lined up since 2 pm for a 6:30 appearance – many playing with their blackberries, PDAs, games, windows media devices, etc. There were so many people wired and connected that many press made this a story onto itself. The film showed him driving to the Redmond campus with a briefcase and coffee mug left on the roof of the car. His keynote started with cameo appearances by some celebrity “friends,” including, Brian Williams, Hillary Clinton, George Clooney, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg, Jon Stewart, Jay Z, and Bono. This was all set as a dreamlike look into the future of his last day at MS with an imaginary newscast by Brian Williams of NBC News. “All of us here at NBC News will miss reporting every night on this brilliant, powerful – let’s face it – sexy and good-looking leader”. It was cute and a good way to transition to his discussion on the “next digital decade” with regard to entertainment, technology, and convergence. We sat through presentations by Mika, and Robbie, and Jill, and other MS execs. Also we watched him play guitar. I found it interesting to hear BG view of the future where one need not struggle with technology to download, upload, email, but to create in the cloud (the Internet), and then distribute as you wanted to. The presentation of the MS Music player was not something I agreed with – I like to seek music I like from strangers – not check what my friends are listening to. But the vision of the connected experience and some of the demos made this a worthwhile speech to attend. But the big news is his haircut. I checked this AM, and a search on Google yielded 71,400 results, with 8,120 BLOGS, and 7 news stories. Narrow it down to CES 2008 and Bill Gates Hair Cut, and you get 9,220 Web mentions, 361 BLOGS, and 4 news. Bill, maybe you should check with John Edwards – I have the feeling that he has negotiated the price down from $400!

For years I have not liked it — so let me document my thought.  I think the time change thing is a bad idea.  The fact is, despite a lot of travel, the change of my internal clock to accommodate the time changers whim is not good. According to USA Today, some Americans are finding themselves behind the times thanks to a daylight saving shift that is confusing people and electronics. And this year – they decided to even change the week!  Daylight saving used to end on the last weekend in October. But Congress changed it to the first weekend in November this year in an effort to save power. More important is that each year I have to figure out how to change all my clocks and electronic devices. One year I tried to change the time over a week, about 10 minutes a day, but this caused problems when booking appointments and asking is it 8 AM your time or mine.  Bottom-line, I do not think this is a good thing!

Could we be coming out of a nuclear winter? March 25, 2009, 12:01 am Boston Venture Firm Seeks Entrepreneurial Spark By Jenna Wortham Spark Capital, a venture capital firm based in Boston, is trying to turn the economy’s tumult into an opportunity to find fresh ideas. On Wednesday, the company is unveiling Start@Spark, a seed investment arm for early-stage Web companies that will grant as much as $250,000 to a handful of budding entrepreneurs. “We are being a bit contrarian here,” said Todd Dagres, founder and general partner at Spark Capital. “Most VCs are triaging their portfolios,” and wondering how long the downturn will last, he said. “Given the volatility of the market, we think start-ups are less risky than later-stage companies,” said Mr. Dagres. Younger start-ups generally haven’t accrued a significant amount of debt or a stable of salaried employees. They also tend to be at a point where generating revenue is less crucial than for more mature companies, he said. In addition, he said, “we had some luck early on with companies we put seed money into,” such as OneRiot and micro-blogging platform Tumblr. “We felt if we formalized this process as a program, we would see more of these deals,” he said. As my colleague Matt Richtel and I reported in early March, large-scale downsizing and the upset of several key industries has churned out an abundance of diverse entrepreneurs fine-tuning their big ideas and business plans in lieu of pursuing traditional corporate job opportunities. “A great talent pool has emerged out of necessity,” he said. Mr. Dagres said Spark Capital’s initiative will focus on New York- and Boston-area companies and has an eye out for companies dabbling in social media and financial services, among others. The company’s ultimate hope to get “two or three great little start-ups out of this,” he said.

I found this while researching GTS.  I thought the comments on investing to be interesting and worth the post. This is a panel discussion from The Global Technology Symposium at Stanford January 30 – February 1, 2008 February 1, 2008 Silicon Valley Angel Investors
 Moderator: Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Panelists: Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder and Chief Architect and Sr. VP, Network Systems, Sun Microsystems; Google’s first investor Ron Conway, Independent Angel Investor, former Founder & Managing Partner of Angel Investors LP Dr. Ian Sobieski, Managing Director, Band of Angels Fundhttp://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3694487523442970875&hl=en&fs=true

the DECLARATION Sign the No Labels Declaration and join your neighbors who are asking their leaders to put the labels aside and do what’s best for America. Thank you for signing the No Labels Declaration! We are not labels – we are people. We care deeply about our country. We are frustrated and concerned about the tone of politics. We are passionate about addressing America’s challenges. We are Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Most importantly, we are Americans. We believe hyper-partisanship is destroying our politics and paralyzing our ability to govern. We may disagree on issues, but we do so with civility and mutual respect. We believe in the vital civil center — a place where ideas are judged on their merits. We believe that together we can make the future better and brighter — and give us what we all deserve — a government and a political system that works — one driven by shared purpose and common sense. We believe our politics can change, so that government will work again and produce better results. The consequences of inaction have never been greater, because the issues we face have never been more serious, more complicated, or more dangerous. And yet, we have a crisis of governance – A crisis that compels us to work together to move America forward. We must put our labels aside, and put the issues and what’s best for the nation first. A promising future awaits us. #politics #nolabelsdeclaration #nolabelsdeclaration #NoLabels #petition #NoLabels

In preparing for a speech to a bunch of VCs & entrepreneurs today and found an excerpt from Vince Lombardi speech "A Game of Inches". As we consider new ventures, team building and the extra effort it takes to make a new vision a reality, here are some thoughts and inspiration from legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who was motivating his players – his TEAM – in his usually live or die fashion, by encouraging them to make every inch of effort count toward their goal. “Life’s a game of inches, and so’s football.  In either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small: I mean, a half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it; one step too slow or too fast, you don’t quite catch it… The inches we need are all around us.  They’re in every break of the game, every man we see.  On this team, we fight for that inch.  On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us apart for that inch.  We claw for that inch.  Because we know, when we add up all those inches, that’s gonna make the f***ing difference between winning and losing… between living and dying. In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch… That’s what living is – the six inches in front of your face.”

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