I got this in an email the other day and thought I would share.

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning..”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
” Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC ..
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about..”

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONIST.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA …
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out..”

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION .
“Stop acting like your father!”

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
“Just wait until we get home.”

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
“You are going to get it when you get home!”

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way.”

19. My mother taught me ESP.
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
“When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
“You’re just like your father.”

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
“Shut that door behind you.  Do you think you were born in a barn?”

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”

And my favorite:

Love
Brad and Becki Pace

iphone app store.  I love how the app store works.  It is easy to use and navigate.  From a user perspective it is nice to know all the apps are located in one place.  One problem with palm apps was that there was hundreds of sites that sold apps.  This made it hard to know what was available.  Everything is in one place at the apple store.  It is also nice to know that apple has reviewed all the apps in the store and they adhere to some type of quality standard.  One big worry with the palm apps was if you were going to get a virus or something from downloading the app.

From a business point I think apple has nailed it.  App developers know that they can just build their apps and sell them.  Sure apple takes 30% (or whatever it is).  Plus Apple will make a ton of money from this.  I don’t think that Palm made much money from apps.  This is also good I think for the users.  It is nice to know that with only one place to buy you are getting the best (and only) price.  Some may complain that no competition in this area is bad.  But I think it works for all parties involved (users, developers, and apple).  That is why it will do so well in the years to come.

Palm Apps:  I appreciate that palm opened up their platform and tried to make it available for anyone to sell and install an app.  But just imagine if Palm had used the centralized store model that apple is using now.  That cash info may have saved palm and made them into a power in the smartphone industry.  As a user I just hated searching and pricing all the palm apps.  I never did quite trust many of them and did not trust many of the developers.  I never once purchased an app directly from the developer.  And never purchased from the palm app store.  It was always from a trusted 3rd party.  I was always worried about getting the app again if I had to reinstall.  With the iphone I know that my purchased apps will always be available.

All in all I love the experience of the iphone application process. My only problem with it is that everything goes through the itunes software on my PC.  This works great for the music, video and podcast stuff.  But I loved how the palm pc software seamlessly integrated all my contacts and notes.  I liked doing things on the PC and just syncing it to my treo.  Mostly notes.  I would take short notes on the palm and then expand on the ideas on the PC later.

My goal is to get much better at networking and meeting new people.  So my goal is to double my network in the next 6 months.

At Search Engine Strategies (SES) this week I attended the Google dance. Me and about a BILLION other people. This is a huge party put on by Google at the Googleplex. I have never been to Google and wanted to check it out. I am not a “party guy” but I have to admit that it was fun. I only stayed for an hour or so (it took me that long to walk through the party from one side to the other).

Google’s headquarters was quite impressive. The simple white 3 story buildings had many windows and looked to be light and airy inside. They had some very nice employee areas including lunch rooms and a cafe. They also have a huge game room with video games. In the courtyard they have a sand volleyball court, outdoor couches with legos, pool tables, and even a vegetable garden. Easily one of the coolest work places I have ever seen. Although I don’t think it is nicer than the Novell Provo campus (just with more fun stuff).

The party was crazy. Tons of food, snacks, and fun. Everything was free obviously. My favorites where the video games (all racing games which I love), the milk shakes, and the candy bar. The candy bar had large bins filled with all the candy you could fill your pockets with (ok they had little google branded candy sacks). Being the master brander Google is the candy bar was color coded to match the google logo. 2 bins each of blue, red, yellow, blue, green and red. (have you ever wondered why the colors are that way in the logo? Both g’s are blue, but both O’s are not red.)

But we have to hurry…

Monday April 16, is our FINAL DEADLINE.

Janet’s blog post:
http://www.newspapergrl.com/622/get-seth-godin-to-utah-we-have-3-days/

Pledge your $50 at:
http://www.pledgebank.com/SethGodinUtah

p.s. let me know if you can help film a video to put on YouTube where we stop bald men on the street and ask, excuse me sir, are you Seth Godin???