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Jun 10, 2013 |
General Nonsense
My hypothesis is that science will someday be able to identify sociopaths and terrorists by their patterns of Facebook and Internet use. I'll bet normal people interact with Facebook in ways that sociopaths and terrorists couldn't duplicate.
Anyone can post fake photos and acquire lots of friends who are actually acquaintances. But I'll bet there are so many patterns and tendencies of "normal" use on Facebook that a terrorist wouldn't be able to successfully fake it.
The main reason you can't fake Facebook use patterns is that you can't control how others respond to you. Good friends respond entirely differently than acquaintances, both in quantity and content. I think that sort of difference would show up.
Years ago, during my banking career, a coworker developed a program that looked through bank records for patterns suggesting possible fraud. It worked well enough that he formed his own company, sold the program to banks, and became a wealthy man. The key to the program's success is that crooks don't know there is a normal pattern and so they don't know when they violate it. I think the same would be true for Facebook. There must be dozens of normal Facebook patterns that sociopaths and terrorists wouldn't know about, and therefore couldn't fake.
I imagine that Internet usage patterns could tell experts as much about your brain as an MRI. To put it in simpler terms, if you tell me which web pages you browsed this week, I can come up with a good estimate of your odds of being a terrorist.
Do you think the government is already monitoring your Internet use pattern, if not the specific pages? If not, they will.
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Blurb Your Way to Fame
Jun 5, 2013 |
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Before you take on any challenge - whether you are planning a trip to someplace exotic, or contemplating a career change, or whatever - there is always a step you will do first if it is available to you: You'll ask other people how they did it. You probably won't follow the same playbook as those who went before, but knowing how others approached the same challenge, and how it turned out, will narrow your choices. And that can help a lot.
After Dilbert became a big deal, people started asking how I was able to beat such long odds. Was it simply a case of hard work plus extraordinary luck, or did I have some sort of secret method?
The interesting answer is that my career unfolded according to a written strategy that I created after I graduated from college. I still have it. And on top of the strategy I have several systems designed to make it easier for luck to find me.
Last year I realized that my personal story has just the right amount of twists and setbacks to make good reading. So I turned it into a book that will come out in October on the topic of success. The title is
How to Fail Almost Every Time and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.
It's a non-Dilbert book that includes humor in some chapters, but it's mostly a very different approach to the topic of success. I wouldn't expect anyone to follow my systems and get the same results, but I think it is helpful to know which methods other people have tried and how it turned out for them.
Anyway, my publisher asked me about getting blurbs for the back cover. In publishing lingo, a blurb is a recommendation or positive review of the book that appears on the back cover, as in "A fantastic read. I couldn't put it down. - Joe Blow."
My problem with collecting blurbs in the usual way is that it feels like assigning homework to strangers. A typical blurb process might involve picking some famous authors in the success field and asking my publisher to ask their publishers to ask the famous authors to 1) Read my book, and 2) Write glowing reviews. The whole process feels wrong.
This is where you come in.
My publisher has agreed to print blurbs from you, my blog readers, knowing that none of you have read the actual book. What's in it for you is that you might see your name on the back cover of the book.
The trick is to write your review in a way that addresses my general writing/thinking qualities as seen on this blog. You won't be reviewing the book so much as reviewing me as a writer. Keep your reviews to a few sentences at most, and don't be so overboard that it looks disingenuous. The trick is to say something positive that isn't over the top. And don't pretend you actually read the book.
I'll select several winners from what I see in the comments and stick them on the book.
Who's in?
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Open Source Architecture
Jun 3, 2013 |
General Nonsense
Thanks to reader JP for this link about a plan for
open-source home architecture.
If the plan works, someday a consumer will be able to download buildable home construction plans and order custom-cut materials to make home-building a breeze, and much cheaper. The biggest obstacle will be the complexity of local building standards. But I can imagine local governments embracing the system if it allows them to input their unique building requirements into it as a filter. It might be a big money-saver for the town because every proposed building plan that comes through the system will already meet codes.
The thing that is missing from the downloadable architecture system, as far as I know, is the design element. I don't want to build a house that is nothing but a bunch of boring rectangles arranged over a foundation. I want a house that is designed with function in mind first. And for that I'd like to see some sort of "best design" subsection for the downloadable home plans.
I often think about how hard it was to design our current kitchen layout. Kitchens are a challenge because ideally you want everything to be next to everything else, which is physically impossible. Our biggest error was putting the flatware drawer in a place that guaranteed someone would always be standing in front of it when someone else needed a fork. It seems like a small thing, but design is about getting all of the small stuff right. I'd love to upload the design of our kitchen, after moving that one drawer, and see how it stacks up to other kitchen designs.
Current home design is all about appearance over function because consumers buy homes that look great while having a hard time imagining all the little functional flaws such as a lack of storage space, how sound travels, and that sort of thing. The big homebuilders and architects design for the camera, not for the consumer. When homes are designed to meet the best standards of function as voted by actual homeowners, the value of the typical home will skyrocket at the same time the cost of construction drops.
I predict that in twenty years nearly every house that exists today will be seen as a "tear down" because new construction will be cheap and new home designs will be extraordinary.
Imagine picking your house design over the Internet with the intention of doing much of the work yourself, perhaps with your own crew of helpers. You pick the design, pick the start date, and click BUY. From that point on, the system starts delivering materials according to a fixed schedule that the buyer can modify on the fly. You show up at the construction site in the morning and several Google self-driving delivery trucks are already waiting. Your construction-bot unloads the trucks and stages the building material where you want it.
You walk up to the pile of materials and use your smartphone to read the bar code and call up detailed step-by-step directions for what you need to do. You'll have exactly the tools you need because the system warned you a week ahead to be ready for this phase. If you don't own a nail gun, for example, that is added to your delivery at the same time as the materials.
I can also imagine that in this world of pre-cut materials we would see more of a snap-together building system that is easy for non-handy people to manage.
There is an enormous home construction/retrofit phase ahead of us, perhaps ten years out.
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Virtual People
May 30, 2013 |
General Nonsense
Let's say in ten years you have digital glasses such as Google's Glass. Now let's say the glasses are Internet connected at high speed and have access to facial recognition software. And let's say the glasses allow you to replace whatever is in your field of vision with a computer generated image.
See where I'm going with this?
The implication of this technology is that you could make love to your spouse while wearing the glasses and replacing his/her face with the face of a preferred lover in real time. And I don't know if you can buy stock in blow-up sex doll companies but this would be a good time to get in on the ground floor. The manufacturer simply needs to color the dolls blue so the glasses can digitally create whoever you would like it to be.
Or the glasses could digitally airbrush real people who are standing in front of you. Perhaps software could add a tan or even subtract a few pounds. I would imagine software could find the midpoint of a human and digitally distort the stomach area to make the person's proportions just right.
I can imagine an old-folks care facility in which everyone wears blue clothing and digital glasses that make the residents look like their 20-year old selves. You'd be surrounded by old people but it would look like spring break.
Clothing fashion might stop being a thing in the real world because it is easier to change your outfit digitally. You simply transmit your wardrobe code to the observer and that person sees a CGI image of your clothing choice instead of the blue jump suit you are actually wearing. You could have dozens of virtual wardrobe changes in a day. Or you could appear with tattoos and a tongue ring to your young friends while appearing professionally dressed to business associates and family, all at the same time.
In the future, a television set might be nothing but a blue rectangle on a wall that has a bar code. Your glasses read the bar code and start transmitting images to you while keeping the images framed as if in the virtual TV on the wall. That way you can look around and not have your entire field of vision blocked by the TV image.
One of the worries about Google's Glass product is that people will hate talking in person to someone who is wearing them. But that is only a problem if one of you has the product and the other doesn't. In other words, 50% penetration of this product will be a nightmare whereas 100% penetration is fun for all.
Therefore, I predict that Google and other big tech companies will give away digital glasses for free someday, so they can skip the 50% nightmare penetration level and go straight to 100%, or near it, where they need to be. The business model will involve selling subscription connections to the Internet and having access to all of the apps and services. And I assume there will be an advertising model. In any case, I would expect digital glasses to go from a novelty item for geeks to a nearly 100% adoption rate within five years of the technology reaching some minimum level of functionality. And that will happen because the glasses will be free.
I would imagine that even people with no money could use digital glasses in WiFi hot spots and still have access to the most basic functions without a subscription. So money won't be much of an obstacle.
By the way, I realized yesterday that my generation is the last of the pure humans. Most people my age were raised with no personal technology. Someday historians will mark the smartphone era as the beginning of the Cyborg Age. From this day on, most kids in developed countries will be part human and part machine. As technology improves, we will keep adding it to our bodies.
And if that isn't scary enough, check out the folks trying to
design new life forms
at the DNA level.
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Hiring Versus Firing
May 28, 2013 |
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Imagine a manager who is excellent at identifying and hiring talent but not so good at firing the people who need it. Compare that situation to a manager who does an average job of hiring but is spectacular at weeding out the bad apples in the group. All other things being equal, which manager will do better?
Here's the summary:
Manager 1
: Great at hiring, average at firing
Manager 2
: Great at firing, average at hiring
I'm going to cast my vote for the manager who does a better job of firing than hiring. My reasoning is that one can never know for sure who will be a good hire because people are skilled at concealing their personality flaws during interviews. Once hired, people feel free to let their inner assholes out. So hiring is an extraordinarily imprecise process.
Firing, on the other hand, is far more objective. Ask any group of employees who among them needs to be fired and most people will turn and point to the same guy. While it's hard to know who you should hire, it can be easy to know who to fire. The manager who is good at firing only needs the cold-hearted resolve to do it in a timely manner. There generally isn't much doubt about who should be fired.
I also wonder if one person can have the skill to be good at hiring and also good at firing. I would think that knowing who to hire requires a high degree of social empathy. The skilled interviewer makes a connection through conversation and eye contact and "feels" the other person. A manager who is socially talented might pick up little clues from an applicant that others would miss, such as arrogance or deceptiveness or moral flexibility.
On the other hand, a manager who is good at firing might be high on the sociopath scale. Where the socially talented manager would find it intolerably painful to look someone in the eye and fire them, the sociopath sees it as just another Tuesday. Common sense tells us the sociopath would pull the trigger sooner and get rid of the bad apples.
In my corporate experience, which included perhaps a dozen or more work groups, I never thought to myself that we could do better if only we could hire some superstars. Instead, I always thought we needed to get rid of a few obvious duds and trouble-makers and everything would flow smoothly after that.
Keep in mind that I never worked in a group that was inventing the next smartphone or doing anything sexy. We didn't need geniuses. We just needed to get the work done.
Over time, the manager who fires best will end up with top talent through a survival-of-the-fittest process.
Obviously I've oversimplified things. But if you accept that firing is more critical than hiring, I will move on to my point.
Given that firing might be more important than hiring, and given that employees are well-aware of who among them needs to be fired, it suggests a better system. As with most of my ideas, it is entirely impractical but fun to think about.
Imagine that instead of managers making firing decisions, only the employees themselves make those decisions as a group. And let's say the job of managers is to set targets for the number of people in the group who need to be fired by what deadline. For example, if you have a hundred employees in a group, and the group hasn't performed well, the manager might say 10% have to be voted out of the group by year end. If the group is performing well, the manager might set the target at 5%.
In my corporate days I learned that coworkers don't have much reason to be nice to one another. But you would be nice to anyone who had a vote on your future. You might even be proactive in doing well by your coworkers because that's the sort of thing that gets remembered at voting time.
I realize that managers already take input from employees on what they think of coworkers, but that turns into a lot of he-said, she-said. And coworkers generally don't say a coworker is toxic even if that is the only word that describes it. Instead, you tell your manager that Bob is spreading rumors, or not returning phone calls, or whatever is the specific crime, and your boss treats it as isolated cases that can surely be managed. A manager will usually give both sides the benefit of the doubt. But if employees make their own collective firing decisions, no manager would be involved to water-down, distort, or delay the process. You simply vote the toxic guy out.
There are already a number of companies who set firing targets. But managers are still in charge of execution. And those systems tend to be draconian because the level of firing is independent of the group's performance.
Under my proposed system, in which the manager sets firing targets based on performance, and employees make firing decisions, you create an interesting new dynamic. Under the old system, if my coworker does bad work it is mostly his problem so long as my manager sees me as a good worker. I'll get my raise even if the other guy doesn't. Under my system, the group has a collective goal of convincing the manager that the firing level should be set as zero. Employees have a common enemy of sorts in the manager. I would think that would be good for teamwork.
What do you think of a system in which managers set firing targets and employees decide who goes?
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Man Cave Rentals and Stuff
May 23, 2013 |
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I wonder if there will ever be a business that rents "man caves" for guys who just need to get away from the house. I imagine these man caves to be about the size of a small storage unit and infinitely customizable. You'd have your big screen TV and Internet connections, of course. Beyond that, you can customize it with beer on tap, video games, moose heads, and whatever else your guy-brain desires. The basic items, such as seating and the large screen TV, would be directly provided and installed by the operators. But you could bring in your own furniture and finishes too.
I would think $200 per month would be the right price for this little paradise away from home.
Along a similar vein, I wonder if there will ever be a business that offers "artist condos" in a large shared space. I'm seeing this as a large open space with plenty of sunlight and views, with each rented area delineated by short walls. Each renter would have a storage locker for valuables, but items such as easels would stay in place. Security cameras and a security guard at the door would keep things safe.
I can imagine a coffee shop in the middle of the chaos. Everyone would be doing their own art thing - from quilting to sculpting to painting to whatever - and meeting near the coffee shop for social time.
While I'm at it, I also have in mind the perfect bedroom design for a young boy. Imagine a rectangle with the door on one short side and a bed on the far end. The bed would be raised like the top of a bunk bed, with a desk area below.
On the two longer walls, I'd put ground-level car seats (or booth seats) facing each other. Directly above both seats would be flat screen TVs. While gaming, you would be facing your friend(s) and looking at the screen above their heads. They would be doing the same. I see a two-seat bench on each side. The TVs might need to be slightly angled down to make the viewing work.
I'd also add accent lights along the ceiling because small spaces benefit a great deal from the right lighting. And of course you'd have a good speaker system in the room.
I'd also build into the room some way for the lights and music to be controlled from the kitchen, so mom and dad can summon the kid away from his distractions. Just push a button and the lights blink and the music stops, so the kid knows it is time for dinner.
Those are my random ideas for today.
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Ultimate Kitchen
May 20, 2013 |
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Imagine if most of your kitchen surfaces were covered with thin panel TV technology. The front door of your refrigerator would be a TV. Each cabinet door would be a TV. The microwave door would be a TV.
This idea would be impractical with current technology. But I imagine we aren't far from having some sort of bendable screen material we can glue to any surface. It might be something like
Let's say the kitchen knows who you are by the phone in your pocket that is communicating via Bluetooth. Imagine that you walk into the kitchen and all the TVs come alive. Perhaps the starting channel is nothing but scenery. Or perhaps each member of the family has a default channel that comes up when they are the only ones in the kitchen. If you have a home security system, perhaps it shows all of your camera views.
You can control everything in the kitchen by hand signals. Point to one monitor and "toss" a TV show to it. Pull up a recipe on another screen, a shopping list on another, and the family calendar on the fourth.
You'd have speakers in the ceiling, of course, so if you play music videos the kitchen will become a concert hall. If a Skype call comes in, it pops up on screen and the music cuts off automatically. Emails and texts would pop up on separate screens. Just face the screen to which you plan to respond and use voice commands.
Now mom or dad can prepare dinner while catching up on some TV shows, answering texts and emails, and organizing the family schedule.
I can also see the kitchen screens being synchronized to dinner plans. When it is time for something to go into the microwave, for example, the screen on the microwave door would turn into a picture of that item. When it's time to chop some vegetables, a screen would show you the size of the cubes you want. I can imagine every step of the menu being visual and interactive. No more reading wordy recipes. Just watch the pictures and follow along.
The kitchen might need some sort of sound-proof doors to keep the rest of the house quiet while the kitchen is rocking.
Making a shopping list would be as simple as speaking the items you want. A picture of the item would pop up on screen for confirmation. When you're happy with your list, just send it to the cloud and your groceries will be delivered to your door.
When you need to check on the kids doing homework just make a video call from the kitchen. By then all homework will be done on a tablet or device with a camera. If your kid takes longer than five seconds to answer the call, he wasn't doing homework.
When it is time for dinner, call up a map that shows the location of all family members by their phones. You can see your spouse is only halfway home on the commute and your kid is still at soccer practice, so you time dinner accordingly. (Here I'm assuming privacy is a relic of the past.)
When it's time to eat, tell the kitchen to automatically text each family member and show any replies on the screen.
You should also have cameras on the stove top so you can walk away and still keep an eye on whatever is boiling via your smartphone. Better yet, the smartkitchen should keep an eye on boiling pots on its own and adjust the heat as needed.
The kitchen is already the fun place to be in the house. But we're nowhere near the limit of how cool the kitchen can become. And I didn't even mention robots.
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Larry Page's Voice Update
May 15, 2013 |
General Nonsense
A number of you forwarded links to a
story in which
Larry Page describes for the first time his voice problems.
In prior posts I had guessed his voice problem was caused by spasmodic dysphonia, a condition I once had. Evidently I was wrong. (For the first time.) But what Page does have is similar in a few ways.
With spasmadic dysphonia, the vocal chords clench shut involuntarily. Page seems to have the opposite, in that his vocal cords are partly paralyzed. There is a version of spasmodic dysphonia in which the vocal cords open involuntarily, and that might sound very similar to how his voice sounds -- breathy and weak. What makes Page's situation different, and also indicates to me that the problem isn't spasmodic dysphonia, is that his two vocal cords went bad in different years. I've never heard of that.
Interstingly, my voice problem was fixed by a surgery that clipped my existing nerve connection from brain to vocal cords and spliced in a new route. Page's problem also seems to involve nerve damage from brain to vocal cords. So his voice problem and my ex-problem are entirely different, but it wouldn't surprise me if the solution was similar: Nerve rewiring by surgery.
Interestingly, Page's voice problem was triggered the same way spasmodic dysphonia gets triggered, by a common cold or respiratory illness that causes laryngitis and simply never improves. I'm surprised there are two conditions with that same trigger.
Anyway, if Larry hasn't yet spoken to Dr. Gerald Berke at UCLA, he hasn't finished investigating his options. I'd be happy to make an introduction.
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Common Sense and Complexity
May 14, 2013 |
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Sequestration refers to the automatic spending cuts that the government of the United States passed into law in 2011, and which went into effect March 1
of this year. The original idea was that the impending meat cleaver approach to the budget would force a contentious Congress to reach agreement on smarter and more targeted cuts for the good of the country. Common sense might tell you that making intelligent budget cuts would be better than reductions across the board. Most people held that view.
But my common sense argues the opposite. I say dumb cuts are every bit as good as intelligent cuts, at least for cuts of the size we are discussing. I'll explain.
For starters, consider how often common sense is wrong. My most-used example is that common sense tells you that investing in individual superstar stocks would give you a better return than buying the market average. But we know from studies that buying individual stocks is a sucker's game unless you have insider or special knowledge. Common sense often steers you toward calamity.
The thing we call common sense is in reality some mixture of bias, fear, self-interest, ignorance, misjudgment, emotion, and about a dozen other psychological malfunctions. Common sense only operates well in simple situations, and the budget of the United States is far from simple.
When the sequestration was originally contemplated, the hope was that by 2012 Congress could get past partisan politics and agree on intelligent, common sense cuts. The flaw in that plan is that intelligence and common sense aren't real things when it comes to the budget. If you fired everyone in Congress today and replaced them with new folks, you would end up right back where we are. In the context of massive complexity, common sense and intelligence are nothing more than the soothing sensations our brains provide so we'll feel less frustrated and confused. Our tiny brains prefer simple statements such as:
Cut that defense budget!
Stop giving those freeloaders my money!
Yay for solar power!
I have a bit of insight about across-the-board budget cuts because I was a budget manager for a bank and then a phone company during a portion of my corporate career. My job was to present management with enough information for them to make "intelligent" budget decisions. Management would look at my information, assume it was nothing but a compilation of lies from department heads, and proclaim a 10% budget cut across all departments.
And oh how the department heads squawked about the irrational budget process. But they made the cuts, after much complaining, and life went on. As the budget guy, I got to see how many doom and gloom stories transpired because of the "dumb" cuts. Answer: none. I never saw a real business problem that could be traced back to the budget cuts. People simply adapted to the new constraints.
I would go so far as to say that sometimes the best way to improve a department function is to cut its budget. Constraints generate creativity. People will only try hard to improve if it is necessary. A fully-funded budget removes that creative energy.
Consider this highly simplified example. Let's say a government-funded medical procedure costs $1,000 per patient, but the budget cuts make it impossible to spend that much for the coming year. Once the constraints are in place, you might see more effort in searching for cheaper solutions across the globe. Before the cuts, there was no reason to even look for a cheaper solution. Now folks might do research and discover that India has a procedure that costs $100 and produces the same result. Or you might do a study that results in a better understanding of which patients will respond to the treatment, so you can skip the people who wouldn't have been helped. For the best results in the long term, you need a healthy balance of both funding
The best way to ruin a good program is to overfund it until everyone involved gets fat and lazy. One could argue that the best way to improve a program - once it has reached a massive national scale - is to cut its budget and force some creative energy into the system.
So while most of the country was worrying that the dumb budget cuts of the sequestration would lead to doom, I was thinking it was a brilliant work-around to a failed Congress. The dumb budget cuts would be no worse than intelligent cuts, and we'd gain some degree of predictability about the fiscal future. The economy loves predictability.
This is another situation in which the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters comes into play. The law states that any looming disaster that the general public recognizes years in advance will be solved. For example, if today the government proclaimed that Social Security would go away in the year 2040, the country would adapt. And the solution would likely have many advantages over Social Security in the long run. For example, perhaps it would trigger a massive wave of home upgrades as people add in-law apartments to their existing homes. The economy would boom, grandma would be close to the grandkids, and you could easily feed her with the money you saved by not paying Social Security every month. When she dies, you have an extra space to rent.
Don't get too caught up in my examples. I'm just making the case that budget constraints fuel creativity. And that trade-off is sufficiently unpredictable that common sense simply can't tell you whether to cut a particular large program or not.
So how do you make budget decisions in the face of massive unpredictability? That's simple: You pick the path that is cheapest. And that is roughly what the sequestration did.
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Solving Three Problems at Once
May 13, 2013 |
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Problem 1
: Grandparents enjoy watching movies, but they don't enjoy the hassle of going to the movie theater.
Problem 2
: Grandparents want to see more of their families.
Problem 3
: You feel obligated to visit your parents/grandparents but it can be mind-numbingly boring. And you don't want to sit in the living room for hours listening to medical complaints.
: Suppose the AARP (a seniors organization) worked out a deal with the major film studios to allow seniors to stream new movies to their homes on the same day the films are released to studios. And let's say the price is high, perhaps $100 for a two-day streaming rental.
Now you have a situation in which the grandkids might want to visit the grandparents just to see the new movie that is out. That's doubly true if the grandparents have a huge screen TV.
A typical grandparent would have twenty-or-so family members and friends who might be interested in a new movie. That brings the cost down to $5 per viewer if everyone wants to pitch in. Or grandpa could pick up the entire tab to sweeten the deal.
Professional movie theaters would still have a huge quality advantage over home theaters, especially for 3D. And some people simply prefer doing things with crowds because it makes the event more exciting. So theaters should continue to do fine. My guess is that the revenue stream from grandparents would more than compensate for lost theater attendance. And the grandparents would be happy to see more of the grandkids.
It would be easy enough to test this plan in a limited market. Pick one theater and draw a circle around it on the map. Market this new streaming service for seniors within the circle and see how the theater performs compared to its peers.
You'd have cheaters of course. Young people might add grandma's name to their house deeds just to be able to watch new movies at home. But I think the cheating could be in the 10% range.
Would this idea work?
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Eco-Bat, one of the largest producers of secondary lead, has created Safe for Life, a campaign that is communicated across all its sites to promote safety culture with a view to improving safety performance and reducing injuries among its employees while they recycle lead acid batteries.
Details of the campaign are described in a new case study produced for the ILA. To read the full case study follow this link:
The Safe for Life branding appears on a wide variety of items and in a wide variety of places ensuring the message gets seen by employees everywhere they go including:
• Display screens at Eco-Bat plants
• Handbooks for employees
• Posters near entrances
• On safety helmets
• Sewn onto uniforms
Slogans have also been devised to help ingrain the safety message into the collective consciousness of employees. They include:
• Speak up
• Be aware of risks
• Don't walk by
• Look out for each other
• Approach each task with fresh eyes
• Don't cut corners
Andy Banks, Head of HSE for Eco-Bat, explains: "Health and safety is our number one priority. We are committed to maintaining a safe work environment so that we can all go home safely at the end of the working day.
"Safe for Life is about selling safety to our employees. The idea is that it grabs their attention and gives them something to think about."
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Delegates to the conference, … Continue Reading
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Latest EU Commission proposal for the REACH candidate list 'undermines the credibility of the process' – says lead industry
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The International Lead Association (ILA) has appointed Bob Tolliday as its first-ever Communications Manager.
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Members of the Steering Committee … Continue Reading
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The company recycles lead, tin, copper and … Continue Reading
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Seven hundred delegates … Continue Reading
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Current data … Continue Reading
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"Winner!" the cake shouts to the apparently unimpaired marksmen taking part in the experiment. "Make sure you keep winning and get home safe!"
For those whose aim is less than true, comments range from a sarcastic "charming" to "ham-boned," "tipsy" and "uh, where are your pants?"
Michigan's IUC used a recorded woman's voice, increasing the startle factor.
"Hey, listen up! That's right, I'm talking to you!" the disembodied voice told barroom toilet users. "Had a few drinks -- maybe a few too many? Then do yourself and everyone else a favor: Call a sober friend or a cab. And don't forget -- wash your hands!"
It's too early to tell what kind of effect the talking urinal cakes have had on reducing drunk driving rates, but they've already made a splash, so to speak, in the advertising world.
The aptly named Wizmark advertising firm is taking advantage of the 10 to 20 seconds of undivided attention urinal users provide while going about their business by exposing them to commercial messages that employ "the elements of surprise and humor," according to the company's website.
Of course, those taking in such messages are free to record their "no sale" sentiments in an immediate and satisfying manner.
Meanwhile, an issue of more pressing urgency is raised by this IUC business.
Using the word "cake" in conjunction with the word "urinal" is just wrong.


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Todd W. Cloe Navy Seaman Todd W. Cloe, son of Todd W. Cloe of Tower Hill and Deannie D. Fry of Brownstown recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Cloe completed a variety of training, which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness.
Marie Arnold A card shower has been requested for Marie Arnold of Brownstown, who will celebrate her 98th birthday on Sunday, March 2. Cards may be sent to her at: Friendship Manor, 221 E. Cumberland Road, St. Elmo, Ill. 62458. Monda Harpster Reeder A card shower has been requested for Monda Harpster Reeder, who will celebrate her 80th birthday on Sunday. Cards may be sent to: Monda Harpster Reeder, 430 Orchard Lane, Arthur, Ill. 61911.
Clara Mae Bolyard Will and Amanda Bolyard of Vandalia are the parents of a girl born at 6:13 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Centralia.
Clara Mae weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 21 inches long. Grandparents are Grayland and Connie Bolyard of Vandalia, Hazel Bauman of Johnston City, and Jerry and Lisa Willmore of Hockley, Texas. Great-grandparents are Bill Oliver of Vandalia and Faye Willmore of Mt. Vernon.
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Ashli Wasmuth and Kory Fenton, both of Vandalia, have announced their engagement and upcoming marriage.
Five generations of the Graumenz family are pictured above.
Seated in front, from left, are Carin Daume and Marjorie Rinkel Graumenz Warner, holding Jase Lowery. In back are Michelle White Daume and Shirley Graumenz White.
Sue Ann Kistler and Jacob Louis Holliday, both of Vandalia were united in marriage in a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at the Vandalia American Legion Home, with the Rev. Carl Rhodes officiating.
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The Vandalia Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new home of Fayette County Real Estate at 725 W. Fillmore St., with Mayor Rick Gottman (center) cutting the ribbon.
Those attending included broker/owner Kelly Washburn and her husband Jared; broker Kris Nalley; Kelly Washburn's mother, Susie Pontious; chamber members Sally Emerick, Brock Brannon, Joe Schaal, Sandy Michel and Audrey Givens; and Sandy Kleinik, Cheryl Snow, Kelly Coker and Margie Wall of Bond County Title.
Fayette County Hospital is expanding its health and wellness services with the addition of a bone densitometry machine. At the Feb. 11 meeting of the Friends and Families of Fayette County Hospital Foundation, the organization's board authorized the purchase of a new bone densitometry system that is used to detect osteoporosis. That machine is manufactured by Hologic, a well-known brand of radiologic equipment.
Though he just opened his gun and coin shop last month, buying and selling those items is something Justin Arndt has been doing for 30 years.