Another Synchronicity Story
I just returned from a planning meeting in Denver, ... that afternoon. Even though the nightclub was closed, we found a janitor there cleaning inside ... the janitor. And only about ten minutes after that when we got the call for the iPhone. Everything [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 07:51:06
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Midnight Reg on ‘Right of Conscience’ for Health Workers Moves Forward
by Christina Jewett , ProPublica - President Bush signs the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ... against abortion (or any other procedure that rankles their conscience) sailed through final Office ... to a janitor cleaning an operating room. Read more... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 17:24:34
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Leadership
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote a guest post for for Fortune, Lessons in leadership - from a failed startup ... that whole year, it was probably him, not the janitor, cleaning them. Embarrassment, guilt, shame, and gratitude all pulsed through me as I stammered out a question: “Why are you cleaning my cups?” “Well,” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 18:06:13
Roman Holiday
Out of sheer weirdness, I think I'd like to try to celebrate the Roman festivals this year. Some of them look quite entertaining, or delicious ... have to find some way to celebrate this two-faced god. Did you know a janitor is a caretaker ... by cleaning the doors in my apartment. Woo.... So, who's in this crazy endeavour of mine? Anyone? Link [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 00:23:26
Commercial Cleaning: Not for the Amateur
It’s not an easy task to keep your office premises clean, free of dust, allergens and bugs. Depending on the number of people and the size and use of the space, it may require constant cleaning to maintain an acceptable level of hygiene. For many reasons, hiring a janitor or cleaning [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 22:30:04
The real smile
Twenty meters to the Saudi Immigration counter, and our car is playing trance at a little less than full volume ... of a janitor on the highway cleaning the trash from these few hundred cars. A man who will spend all night cleaning the shit you and me throw out as we party our asses off tonight. 2009: let’s try [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:37:21
Inspired
Inspired Posted on November 1, 2008 by Tariq Nelson I can attest to this article ... for the first time a month ago. ... “This is huge,” Mr. Battle, a janitor, said after his overnight shift cleaning a movie theater. “This is bigger than life itself. When I was coming up, I always [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 18:50:06
WILLIAM APATOFF
He was born and raised in the slums of Boston, the son of Russian immigrants ... . He rode a battered bicycle around town after school seeking odd jobs, and he worked nights as a janitor ... is his portrait of a cleaning woman he admired.After graduation, he went to Chicago where he set up an easel [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 07:39:00
Latest Mass ICE Raid Site : Providence, Rhode Island
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, has launched another mass raid in a major U.S. city. Yesterday, at around 5 PM, ICE took 31 people who work for a cleaning contractor as janitors ... , the contractor has been in a fight with members of Fuerza Laboral for refusing to pay wages [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 12:35:35
Success Finds Hard Work, Talent & Passion
I spent the last few days in sunny Las Vegas to attend Affiliate Summit West 2009. It’s a conference for affiliate marketing in which I was able to meet with some of the companies ... get a janitor pumped up about cleaning up puke at a preschool! Gary Vaynerchuk at Affiliate Summit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:15:47
Tulsa Tuesday - Haunted Places in Tulsa
Sometimes I kid in my posts, but I’m not joking about this. I don’t know what that blue light is in the above photo ... . This could simply be a witness on an acid trip or a janitor cleaning.* 8. Train Tracks Four children [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 11:40:24
The Ghost in You
Halloween was over but the horror lives on, well for television that is. Programs are about Halloween and Ghost is the main course ... !)This one's more like of a janitor doing a slow-cleaning action rather than a ghost. Common sense; ghost are afraid of the light [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 00:58:00
Tulsa Tuesday - Haunted Places in Tulsa
Sometimes I kid in my posts, but I’m not joking about this. I don’t know what that blue light is in the above photo ... or a janitor cleaning.* 8. Train Tracks Some believe that if you park your car in this location [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 11:36:45
Can Conscience Define Us?
In a time when Americans live to work and define themselves by their work, Mike Gogulski (www.nostate.com), is defining himself with his conscience ... with the bad attitude behind the desk at the motor vehicles office. You are the janitor cleaning [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:13:00
Obama's infomercial - Updated
If you want the smart analysis, go read Steve Benen who rounds up the best of it and adds his own cogent points ... . In case you missed it, here's the video. All I'll add is I wouldn't want to be the janitor at McCain HQ today. Cleaning up the debris from all the exploded heads will be messy. Update: Yeah Obama [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 14:21:45
The Goot
“I am a seducer, I’m a salesman...I’m trying to get people to buy my message. I do have a message. I’m as corny as Kansas in August ... . The janitor cleaning up. The man behind the counter at the convenience store. Those are our people— [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 13:51:20
Heartache.........and dilema
My poor baby Nya had to go for therapy this evening to remove phlegm from her respiratory system ... , at least once. So for the past few days I've been a very hardworking "janitor", cleaning up puke day [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 20:24:00
Can Conscience Define Us?
Can Conscience Define Us? December 30th, 2008 In a time when Americans live to work and define themselves by their work, Mike Gogulski (www ... the desk at the motor vehicles office. You are the janitor cleaning up the blood after the firing squad [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:10:21
Obama-Inspired Black Voters Warm to Politics
Armento Meredith, 43, right, a first-time voter, waited hours in Atlanta to vote on Thursday. “It’s time for a change,” he said ... , a janitor, said after his overnight shift cleaning a movie theater. “This is bigger than life itself [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 23:10:20
Feature: Theophilus London
By Nick Graham Last spring, Theophilus London leaked his Jam! ... to melodies. The old janitor cleaning the toilets is whistling your tune, not rapping it”. It’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 15:51:51
A Thought On An Underlying Root of Racism
Today as I was getting ready to leave work late, I heard two sets of feet come down the hall and the unmistakable sound of a mop bucket and knew the ... room, was stuffing my running gear in a duffel bag when I looked up to see the back of one janitor walk past the door.He had just started cleaning the room next to mine, when I heard the slight sound [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:00
Steve Guttenberg's Many Lies, Dates And Drinks [Celebrity Science]
Actor Steve Guttenberg's insane interview in today's Observer kind of creeps up on you ... spitting on the corner. The janitor cleaning up. The man behind the counter at the convenience store [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 12:16:32
Election Thoughts About Giant Ants and a Giant Mop
I do a lot of international traveling, and the only people in the world who didn’t want Obama to win — aside from a few racists I’ve encountered ... . But realistically, Obama is going to have to be “Janitor-in-chief” before he is likely to be able ... cleaning supplies in the closet. Forget McCain’s big stick. Obama needs a big mop. I also want to make [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 17:52:17
Therapy Would Be Easier
“When I became a mother, I made a mental list of all of the things I would do differently and had a grand plan to make my children adore me ... like cleaning blackened mold from a trash can in a tiny janitor’s closet on a Saturday morning. My other tasks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 03:41:50
Floor-Cleaning Robot In Japanese Office Building
This bulky janitor robot was recently developed and employed by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Sumitomo Corporation in Osaka City, Japan to clean their floors. This bot, operated by Reibi [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 19:33:18
How to Care for Cleaning Equipment
As a cleaning business owner, how many times do you walk into a janitor closet and find dirty equipment, filthy mop buckets, ... for your equipment? Use this checklist to keep your supplies and equipment in top working condition. Plastic [more...]
Date: 2008-06-08 04:54:59
Repost: Paying it Back for Mang Meliton a.k.a “Mang Milton”
This was originally posted from Mike G. Rivera’s Facebook blog. Meet someone who deserves to be called a hero.Meet Meliton Zamora, a retired University of the Philippines janitor and my hero.For forty-five years, he swept floors, cleaned up trash, watered plants and did odd jobs at the University.I met [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 10:11:56
Laptop Encryption Software: Important Because There Are Janitors That Can't Be Trusted
Not to mean that all janitors can't be trusted. But, you know, there's no real way to know who exactly is cleaning up your offices--and possibly cleaning them out as well, as Andritz, Inc., found out. If the janitor had been after more than a laptop computer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:22:26
Don’t borrow and forget
We have seen it before, and perhaps too often for comfort. I’m talking about temporary amnesia after borrowing from a friend or family member ... of the Philippines janitor and my hero. For forty-five years, he swept floors, cleaned up trash, watered plants [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:04:01
Paying It Back for Mang Meliton a.k.a “Mang Milton”
Reposted from Mike’s Multiply account Meet Meliton Zamora, a retired University of the Philippines janitor and my hero. For forty-five years, he swept floors, cleaned up trash, watered plants [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:13:44
Ang Kuwento ni Mang Meliton (A Retired UP-Diliman Janitor) - A REPOST
I am reposting this essay about a former janitor of UP-Diliman, Mang Mel. Lagi ko siyang nakikita sa AS (Arts and Sciences) ... of the Philippines janitor and my hero. For forty-five years, he swept floors, cleaned up trash [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 06:04:00
President Obama to Inherit Bush Recession and Record Deficits
By: John_Mauldin Nov 01, 2008 This week we survey the economic landscape that the new president will inherit ... , the US goes to the polls this next Tuesday to elect a Janitor-in-Chief. He will face a task that rivals that of Hercules in cleaning out the Stygian stables (legendary huge stables that had not been mucked [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 18:37:07
(Editorial Cartoon) Joc-Joc Bolante: Janitor
He’s real busy cleaning… [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 11:29:14
The Happiness of Kapi
Dear KapiI know you will find this letter one day. You must be grown up now and probably lead a happy life in a hi-so condo in Bangkok ... . I just talked to your father, Ant Thin Summin, a Burmese janitor with whom I fell in love whilst ... Summin at first sight while he was cleaning the embassy [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:45:00
A Moment Of Orangutan Janitor Zen...
A 49 year-old Orangutan at a Japanese zoo has developed a taste for house cleaning. Visitors to the Tama zoo in Tokyo watch as Gypsy the orangutan methodically cleans her enclosure. It is thought [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 15:45:00
Visit Films Buys Global Rights to “Little Dizzle”
Good news from IndieWire!Visit Films Takes Global Rights to Sundance’s “Kimjongilia” and “Little Dizzle” by Brian Brooks (Updated 13 minutes ago) ... at a data-management company and can only find work as a janitor. It looks like his life is going down the drain. To make matters worse, he and his toilet-cleaning colleagues become unwitting guinea pigs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 03:57:26
Hey Look Mom, We're on TV
It was sometime mid-last week when I saw, much to my surprise, the grim visage and finger stabbing energy of Stephen Harper on BBC World. The international broadcaster's fare consisting mostly of Third World countries being racked by war or revolution, the news of the Canadian constitutional crisis was something of an anomaly [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 08:00:34
Setting Thesaurus Entry: High School Hallway
SightLockers, scuffed floors, trophy case, fire extinguishers, doors, lockers, plaques, student art work or sculptures, school pictures, ... resting on the floor, signs to office, exits, handmade student posters for pep rallies/dances/games ... yawningSoundsShoes squeaking on floor, echoes, talking, laughing, the clink of locks being opened [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 14:47:00
Cleaning
My second most important job on the Christmas trains is cleaning. Not easy anyway, but also fraught with all sorts of issues ... who supposedly cleaned must have done what I call zombie cleaning. Mostly practiced by men, this involves moving the cleaning tool in the general vicinity of the dirty area and assigning a random amount to time [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 05:05:00
Political Economy 101
by Zack Lieberberg Yashiko Sagamori has forwarded to me a reader’s response to one of my recent articles: I also was disappointed in the last post which was written by Zack Lieberberg whom we have seen before. It was a very long piece to just equate President-elect Obama’s desire to tax the rich more than the poor and middle class with [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 02:56:36
#308. Torturing the janitor during VBS.
I was a mailman one summer. I was a carny for a few hours until they fired me. I worked at a convenience store. I delivered papers ... , but one thing I have never been is a janitor. Facilities coordinator. Building manager. Custodial artisan. Whatever you want to call it, I have not worked as a janitor. I have a lot of respect [more...]
Date: 2008-06-22 17:50:35
In Customer Service, You Are Always On Stage
I am sitting in my local coffee shop (a big brand, not Sbux) and wondering what I want to blog about ... to want to put in a little extra effort to service large orders late at night because it inconveniences ... customer service happens every minute, even when no one seems to be looking. At Disneyland, they call [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 21:15:24
hypnotherapy
Read a fascinating book last week, The Mind-Body Fertility Connection: The True Pathway to Conception.From the publisher's description of the book: "This book dissects the feelings, beliefs and old emotional injuries which often create subconscious obstacles that can disrupt an otherwise healthy functioning reproductive system [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 03:12:00
Sideways
So I'm not sick yet and I went to work today. As I am unlocking the door to enter the library the director pulls up and tells me not to freak out ... . I get the mop and bucket out of the janitor's closet and he begins cleaning up, which shocks ... . He calls main and we try to get Service Master out here but no luck there either. The roads are fast [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 04:23:00
Manhunter
"Do you think I'm going to see him standing in the street and say, 'there he is.' That's Houdini you're thinking about. Toothy Fairy's going to go on until we get smart or get lucky. He won't stop...He's got a genuine taste for it."— Will Graham Before Jonathan Demme's Academy Award winning The Silence of the Lambs (1992) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 14:42:00
Ira Artman’s Sterling Slivers - The 2008 Oscars
Source: US Patent 5,783,263; S ... , was cleaning the blackboard. Two freshmen entered his classroom and took seats. After he finished ... . One student looked at the other and said, “Wow, this is a tough school! Look, even the janitor kno [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 07:55:56
Bulk Buy Twaddle
I know people who like to bulk buy things. They like the fact that you save money by buying a shipment container of food or cleaning products ... there is the person who buys bulk cleaning products. Huge tubs of washing powder or giant bottles ... vat it all comes in. You end up with your laundry looking like a Janitor closet at school with big [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 03:32:00
self care
I spend a pretty decent amount of time taking care of my outside. I don't spend any time, taking care of my insides. Via Haley, via Sarah Monroe. ... backward (Good for a new year) the word Janitor is also derived from this root. Cleaning house, and keeper of the halls. This seems to be a good month to start caring about my insides. Cleaning house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 04:23:00
Are We Still Neighbors?
Fastidiousness can be hard on children...This is the question that sadly came to my mind, when I read The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield. First published in 1924 and reprinted by Persephone Books, the novel concerns a fastidious housekeeper, Mrs. Knapp, who has three children, one of them unruly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 14:48:00
Soldier’s Book Helps Kids Cope with Deployments
Second Lt. Korey R. Outerbridge reads his book, "Good Morning, Honey. Goodbye, Daddy. Goodnight, Sweetheart" to children at ABC Learning Center in Petersburg, Va. Outerbridge got the idea for the book while on a deployment to Iraq. (P. Kevin Morley / Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch via AP)By Peter BacqueRichmond (Va.) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:55:00
