The Front Porch Swing

[Mertex]

Good morning!!!!

That looks like the area behind our backyard back in NH.....so pretty.....

 

[BDBoop]

Wow.

This post created by David Gerrold, writer of 'The Trouble with Tribbles.'

Talk about truth, squared.

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Here's an insight.

How do you want to be known? Your reputation is the one thing you have the most control over.

If you tell the truth, if you arrive on time, if you're dependable, if you know how to clean up a mistake, if you produce results, you get a reputation for integrity.

If you gossip, whine, complain, snipe, conspire, compare, attack, and always have someone else to blame -- you do not get a reputation for credibility or integrity.

Pick a role model. Gandhi, John Wayne, Bugs Bunny, Godzilla. Ask yourself what that role model would do. Do that and that's how you will be known.

The really bad news about reputations is that they're incredibly fragile. One mistake can destroy a reputation as quickly as a pin can destroy a balloon or a spark can bring down the Hindenburg. Worse than that, you don't always have to be the author of your own destruction. There are plenty of people who will be happy to gossip about you behind your back, assume nefarious motives for even the most generous of acts and ascribe them to you.

There are a lot of ways to defend against malicious gossip. My favorite way is to take hold it up to the light and laugh at it in public. But sometimes just ignoring it and outliving it works too. The best defense is to live your life so that the worst gossip they can say about you is that your socks don't match. And if they say that, make it your trademark.

But back to the point at hand...how do you want to be known? Your behavior, everywhere you go -- everything you say, everything you write -- that will be the foundation on which your reputation will be built. So how do you want to be known to friends and family, colleagues and coworkers? How do you want to be known to all the people who know you only by name? Because your reputation will likely enter the room before you even finish parking the car.

What sparked this thought?

Oh, I dunno....

<whistles and walks away quietly>

That should be posted above the door to the Lounge!

Yo, @cereal_killer, can you make a Sticky of that and put it where everyone can see it?

It's simply awesome! Doesn't make sense as a sticky, but it is an incredible commentary. Boops should put it in the OP

Boops can't edit the OP - would you be so kind? Just leave off my commentary, and add credit to Mr. Gerrold at the bottom.

[MENTION=36528]cereal_killer[/MENTION]

 

[Mertex]

Ah. Nothing like sleeping in until 11:00, and drinking coffee out of an over-sized Batman mug.

Aaron, is that you holding the cord?

 

[Mertex]

100 SWINGING PAGES PARTY

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That's a great idea....we should throw a party every 100Pages

Not to party poop the Boop Stoop, but the number of pages depends on how you have your site options set up. Mine is set for 20 posts per page so this appeared on page 76.

Which means two things:
(1) we could party down any time anybody reaches a hundred pages (mine will be coming up)
or (2) we could all just set our options to one post per page.

Pogo the party pooper.......how about we have a party every day?

 

[BDBoop]

How Minnesota is feeling to me this year;

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_WEmNsrQI]Led Zeppelin - Immigrant song - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BDBoop]

Good morning from California.......if there is such a thing here......

And another thing, I am a supporter of diversity, however blaring Mariachi Music in a quiet gated community is not cool at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning....lol

Is that something you can report to security there?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

It is a perty day outside...sunshine all day.
Soup is percolating on the stovetop...and enjoying an IPA that I brewed myself.
Sundays are so good there should be two a week!!

 

[BDBoop]

It is a perty day outside...sunshine all day.
Soup is percolating on the stovetop...and enjoying an IPA that I brewed myself.
Sundays are so good there should be two a week!!

Yes! A post-Saturday, pre-Sunday day. Just to acclimate.

 

[BDBoop]

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[Mertex]

It is a perty day outside...sunshine all day.
Soup is percolating on the stovetop...and enjoying an IPA that I brewed myself.
Sundays are so good there should be two a week!!

I'll drink to that......two Sundays per week.....and a party every day......yeah......

 

[Derideo_Te]

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Yup, we need to listen to our inner selves more often. We ignore them at our peril. If we do what is right for ourselves we will be more inclined to do what is right for others too.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Wow.

This post created by David Gerrold, writer of 'The Trouble with Tribbles.'

Talk about truth, squared.

**********************************************************


Here's an insight.

How do you want to be known? Your reputation is the one thing you have the most control over.

If you tell the truth, if you arrive on time, if you're dependable, if you know how to clean up a mistake, if you produce results, you get a reputation for integrity.

If you gossip, whine, complain, snipe, conspire, compare, attack, and always have someone else to blame -- you do not get a reputation for credibility or integrity.

Pick a role model. Gandhi, John Wayne, Bugs Bunny, Godzilla. Ask yourself what that role model would do. Do that and that's how you will be known.

The really bad news about reputations is that they're incredibly fragile. One mistake can destroy a reputation as quickly as a pin can destroy a balloon or a spark can bring down the Hindenburg. Worse than that, you don't always have to be the author of your own destruction. There are plenty of people who will be happy to gossip about you behind your back, assume nefarious motives for even the most generous of acts and ascribe them to you.

There are a lot of ways to defend against malicious gossip. My favorite way is to take hold it up to the light and laugh at it in public. But sometimes just ignoring it and outliving it works too. The best defense is to live your life so that the worst gossip they can say about you is that your socks don't match. And if they say that, make it your trademark.

But back to the point at hand...how do you want to be known? Your behavior, everywhere you go -- everything you say, everything you write -- that will be the foundation on which your reputation will be built. So how do you want to be known to friends and family, colleagues and coworkers? How do you want to be known to all the people who know you only by name? Because your reputation will likely enter the room before you even finish parking the car.

What sparked this thought?

Oh, I dunno....

<whistles and walks away quietly>

He has alot of wisdom!

 

[Statistikhengst]

Well, for y'allz on the western side of the big drip, it's only 5:30 PM or earlier, but here it is quite late and I have a bear of a week in front of me, so, nite-nite!!!

 

[Mertex]

Well, for y'allz on the western side of the big drip, it's only 5:30 PM or earlier, but here it is quite late and I have a bear of a week in front of me, so, nite-nite!!!

It's 4:33 here in Texas....but I understand, you're on the wrong side of the world, so, nitey, nite....sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite......

 

[Derideo_Te]

Well, for y'allz on the western side of the big drip, it's only 5:30 PM or earlier, but here it is quite late and I have a bear of a week in front of me, so, nite-nite!!!

It's 4:33 here in Texas....but I understand, you're on the wrong side of the world, so, nitey, nite....sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite......

Since everything is always bigger in Texas does that include the bed bugs?

 

[BDBoop]

Wow.

This post created by David Gerrold, writer of 'The Trouble with Tribbles.'

He has alot of wisdom!

That he does. I don't even know how many times I read this since I first saw it.

 

[BDBoop]

Well, for y'allz on the western side of the big drip, it's only 5:30 PM or earlier, but here it is quite late and I have a bear of a week in front of me, so, nite-nite!!!

Nite!

 

[Mertex]

Well, for y'allz on the western side of the big drip, it's only 5:30 PM or earlier, but here it is quite late and I have a bear of a week in front of me, so, nite-nite!!!

It's 4:33 here in Texas....but I understand, you're on the wrong side of the world, so, nitey, nite....sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite......

Since everything is always bigger in Texas does that include the bed bugs?

Dang right......here's a Texas bed bug....

Here's the ones in other states........

 

[April]

Hope all is well with everyone tonight...

 

[Derideo_Te]

It's 4:33 here in Texas....but I understand, you're on the wrong side of the world, so, nitey, nite....sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite......

Since everything is always bigger in Texas does that include the bed bugs?

Dang right......here's a Texas bed bug....

Here's the ones in other states........

So now I understand why you don't want them biting Stat!