Category Archives: Daily Drama

Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change, but I think he is far too conservative in his assumptions for what life will be like five years from now.

Here’s what Seth Godin wrote, judge for yourselves:

Five years from now…
Assume that:
Hard drive space is free
Wifi like connections are everywhere
Connections speeds are 10 to 100 times faster
Everyone has a digital camera
Everyone carries a device that is sort of like a laptop, but cheap and tiny
The number of new products introduced every day is five times greater than now
Wal-Mart’s sales are three times as big
Any manufactured product that’s more than five years old in design sells at commodity pricing
The retirement age will be five years higher than it is now
Your current profession will either be gone or totally different

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Teaching has become a grueling, often humiliating ordeal when it should rightfully be a proud and noble career. It amazes me that teachers are given so little support when they are the real key to a better future for our children.

It is a tribute to their strength of purpose that so many dedicated people continue teaching in the face of increasingly litiginous parents, personal attacks by undisciplined students, and little or no backup from timid administrators.

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Life without an internet connection is the pits. The internet provides me with so much daily inflow and outflow that it is a major part of my social communication activity. When access is interrupted for any length of time, it significantly affects my quality of life.

We have been without telephone or DSL service for two days. We first noticed it after some grading was done in the back yard.

I don’t mind the phone being out because we have cell phones, but I began to feel email and blogging withdrawal symptoms after the first eight hours. After two days without an internet connection, I feel numb and slightly retarded.

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You know what happens when it’s early in the morning and you aren’t ready to write yet? You start browsing through your friends blogs and you find treasures like this!

It’s the Skateboarding Bulldog! I have played this clip several times and it is a charmer. Show it to your dog and see what he thinks.

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