The trend seems to be: managers and accountants and investors have PCs, the hackers have Macs, the Ubergeeks have Linux.

A nice analogy to flawed project management practices regarding innovation: it’s like assuming that since it takes a woman 9 months to have a baby, all you need is 9 women to have a baby in a month.

Broke a cardinal rule of wintertime travel from Alaska– never underestimate how hot it will feel even on a cool day in the Lower 48.

Another rule broken: never enter a ballroom with a mob of laptop wielding techies without at least a multi-outlet adapter if not my own extension cord… talk about “when geeks attack.” The outlets become like African watering holes with predator and prey.

Another nice project management thought: schedules are a shared hallucination.

Scott Berkun feels the word innovate is over used. So we’re now going to use the word shiny instead. Shiny happy people. A very shiny idea. Shinenfreude.

Worst presentation opener I’ve heard in a long time that turned out to be a compelling analogy: “imagine you have a pigeon in a box.”

In defiance of everything that is holy in America– land of the super-size fries, the extra jumbo burrito, and the mini-keg of soda– everything in hotels is shrinking. The bottles diet coke are 8 ounces instead of 12, the coffee maker is 3 cups instead of 4, I think they even have their own definition of a King-sized bed. What’s next, toilet paper the dimensions of adding machine tape?

Shouldn’t a medication that helps men stop having to go the bathroom dozens of times a day be called Flo-Min rather than Flo-Max?