Click to read: Half naked in a dark parking lot. It’s work safe, and very funny.
Laughing out loud… at work
Ok, I’m at work right now. I work in a huge cubicle farm, so when I blurt out a honk of laughter I get noticed.
When people ask what is giving me the giggles, I send them to this site!
I just found it this morning, and I have been cracking up ever since.
CODY IS A DAD!
My great friend Cody and his wife Jamie became parents today! Pretty close to 6:00 this morning Parker Jake came into the world.
Congratulations you two!
Iger is on deck…
I’m not sure how much I can actually say about this so I will word carefully.
I am increasingly dissapointed in the [not so] creative content coming out of other lines of business in my company. With the newly announced successor to the current CEO I fear that the pattern will continue. I hope everyone is prepared for more oh so magical direct-to-video sequels!
Here is the official release from the company:
ROBERT A. IGER NAMED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
BURBANK, Calif., March, 13, 2005 – The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) Board of Directors announced today that Robert A. Iger has been unanimously elected Chief Executive Officer effective September 30, 2005. He will succeed Michael D. Eisner, current CEO, who announced his intention to retire in a letter to the Board last year dated September 9, and will step down as CEO on September 30, 2005.
“After a lengthy, thorough and professional selection process, comparing both internal and external candidates against our criteria for CEO, I am pleased to announce the decision of the Walt Disney Board of Directors to select Robert Iger as the company’s next chief executive officer,” said Sen. George J. Mitchell, chairman of The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors. “Bob is an experienced, talented and visionary leader who has made crucial and substantial contributions toward Disney’s strong performance. On behalf of the entire Board, I want to express how excited we are at the prospect of Bob leading this extraordinary company and talented management team to new levels of financial and creative success in the years ahead.”
“It is truly an honor to be entrusted with the responsibility of guiding this great company that occupies such an important place in the hearts and minds of millions the world over toward a very bright future,” said Iger. “It’s also an honor to work with our incredibly talented and dedicated worldwide team. I feel all the more privileged to succeed Michael, whose tremendous 20-year leadership and enormous accomplishments have built this company into the world’s preeminent leader in family entertainment.”
“It is with a considerable amount of satisfaction and even pride that I approach the end of my term as CEO of this company,” said Michael D. Eisner, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company. “By every financial and creative measure, Disney is performing at its peak. I have enjoyed virtually every moment of my tenure and want to express my appreciation to the phenomenal colleagues with whom I have been privileged to work. I believe Disney is now poised for its brightest days in the years ahead under the able and insightful leadership of Bob, who has not only the qualities to succeed, but also has a keen sense of the Disney brand and how to maintain its leadership position and grow it on a worldwide scale.”
The election of Mr. Iger culminates a lengthy and detailed CEO selection process that started formally when the Disney Board announced on September 21, 2004 that it would, “engage in a thorough, careful, and reasoned process to select as the next CEO the best person for the company, its shareholders, employees, customers, and for the many millions of others who care so much about The Walt Disney Company. The Board is keenly aware of the special place our company holds in the hearts of people all over the world and the importance of its responsibility in choosing a CEO.” The Board also made known that day its intention to “complete the process and announce a successor as soon as possible, with an expected date of completion of June 2005.”
Directors selected the executive search firm of Heidrick & Struggles in October 2004 in order to assist with the CEO selection process.
“The search and the process for considering potential candidates was thorough and exhaustive and met the most rigorous standards,” said Gerard Roche, senior chairman, Heidrick & Struggles.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir Dominates Classical Charts
Perusing some industry reports I ran across this. I thought it was pretty interesting.
I grew up knowing the MoTab choir as the stodgy old people who sang during the LDS Church General Conference. Later in life I grew to know several of the choir members and my opinion started to gradually sway. Now I actually love to listen to them when I need a fix of that grand large chorale sound (hey it happens sometimes). Anyway, read on.
NEW YORK (Billboard) – In recent weeks, a full 20% of the 15 titles on the Top Classical Albums chart have been occupied by one act. Those three spots do not belong to some fresh-faced newcomers, but to one of the choral world’s most venerable institutions: the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Its newest album, “Choose Some-thing Like a Star,” released Feb. 15, celebrates the music of American composer Randall Thompson. It de-buted at No. 3. Like its chart-topping brethren “America’s Choir: Favorite Songs, Hymns, & Anthems” and “Peace Like a River,” this latest MTC release comes from the group’s own label, also called Mormon Taberna-cle Choir, which was established two years ago. “I’m really astounded by this success,” says the choir’s music director, Craig Jessop. “It says that there’s really a market out there for us. People are looking for something that brings peace, comfort and hope.” At the same time, however, Jessop says that the all-volunteer choir’s foundation was built in coming together, week-in and week-out, in rehearsals and performances broadcast from its home base in Salt Lake City. “We’re a church choir, first and foremost,” he says. “The choral legend Robert Shaw was one of my great teachers,” Jessop says. “One of the things that he said that always stuck with me is that you can’t import culture. It has to be a real part of the community. You need to live in that com-munity, nurture that community and let it grow.
Outa’ control
ever feel like life is going just a bit faster then you can hold on to?
Ok ok … It’s coming
I know it’s been too long since I’ve had a post with any real substance… I’m getting to it. If your close enough to be to have spoken on the phone you’ll know that things have been pretty busy the last few days. 4 events in 5 days doesn’t to nice things to a persons schedule.
But I’m getting to it.
Work Work Work
Things in my neck of the woods are pretty crazy these days. Not really out of the ordinary, just lots of stuff going on. It seems people this time of year don’t really plan ahead for their events. For example: Yesterday I recieved requests for a 3 events for the 9th, 12th, and 17th of this month. That, of course, is in addition to my normal load of 10 or 12 larger events.
It’s not the ammount of work that gets interesting, but remembering what project your talking about all the time. I will be talking about a birthday party in Tomorrowland one moment, and the next breathe the conversation has moved on to a major media network hosting 1500 guests next week. You get used to it after a while, but I still have those little snafus where I’m talking about one project and the person on the other end of the phone has moved on to something else. We talk for a good five minutes before realizing we just meshed these events together and it made more sense then if we hadn’t.
Anyway. I better run. Thanks for reading.
Heading for the big city
It’s the morning of a quick trip to see the family. I’ll be flying out tonight for a fast and furious two day excoursion filled with fun and fancy excitement. …well that’s a bit of an overstatement. I’ll be spending the two days working on projects with my dad (who I miss very much).
We’ll be doing the kind of projects we used to team up on from time to time. We’ll be working on some new cameras down at his carwash, and I’ll be getting their computers in tip-top shape. And I’f I’m really lucky I will get him up for a half day or so up on the ski slopes. But top priority is to get some of the things out of the way that he’s been worrying about.
It’s a little strange to be the only boy in the family and live 600 miles away from your dad. Even after more then a year I’m still adjusting to it. Phone calls are all well and good, but it’s just not the same. I could spend hours on the phone and it just wouldn’t be the same as a 5 min. trip down to the gas station for a drink. I really do wish I made a bit more money so I could take a trip every month or so just for a weekend. In the mean-time I’m really thinking about getting us a pair of iSight cameras. They would be a cool thing. First up though, I’ve got to get all the computers at home replaced with Macs. I’ve got two down, and one to go.
So I’m excited for a trip home, but it’s bitter sweet. I will be traveling alone this trip. My wonderful girlfriend is really the driving force behind the trip, and she really volunteered to stay home. She knew I needed to spend some time with my dad (for both he and my sakes) and she gave me that little push I needed to buy the plane tickets. Since then though she’s been having these strange little bouts of separation anxiety. She gets all sad and starts talking about how its my last day, as if I was on death row. I’ll only be gone a couple of days but she and I have really never spent more then two days apart. Really, since the day we met we’ve never been apart. So I will miss her terrebly, but I’m sure we will talk on the phone quite a bit. …and email, and IM.
Anyway, I better work a bit now since it’s my last day 😉 (I’ve kind of already checked out)
Golly what a day
It was quite a day at The Happiest Place On Earth today. I would really love to go into greater detail but I’m just too beat.
Some quick notes from today:
- It’s fun to make big magic on very short notice
- People will laugh at you if you ask for help making a snowstorm in hotel… in 8 hours
- They will stop laughing when they find out you are serious
- People’s kindness will surprise you if you go out on a limb to help them
- Almost any tense situation can be diffused by a simple ‘thank you’
- Event plans should at least be roughly laid out before all 175 guests check into the hotel
- Long periods of time spent away from my girlfriend make me cranky
- I still become weak in the knees when she sounds excited to hear from me
I think that is about it for now. More to come.