http://www.mikegangl.com And so ends my bid for elected office... Or "Life of Mike" Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:45:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems like every famous person has some how codified the rules by which they live their life. In the next couple of days i'm going to start writing again, and i'll attempt to do the same for me. I'll probably take one post of laying them all out, and ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2010/02/19/lent-began-so-give-something-up-you-over-indulging-biscuits/ I have a lot of friends who are Atheist. That's probably the only fact that will be written in the rest of this post, as it all goes considerably downhill from here. A recent book I'm reading, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, puts it interestingly regarding arguments between ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2010/01/02/the-god-dilemma/ I believes all verdicts should be delivered to a judge in the form of a fortune cookie, which must be eaten before the verdict can be read aloud. http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/12/21/fortune-cookie-judges/ I guess the person best fit for 'management' in the utopian sense is technically proficient and altruistic towards the business/customer for which he works. http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/10/29/management/ I have a lot of ideas that people tell me are terrible, but I like them so I've decided to share twohere. 1. Pizza Hut is missing out on an amazing opportunity. Currently they pay drivers to make small, local trips. rarely a high way in use. What other market has ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/10/20/some-money-making-ideas/ The Cult of Done Manifesto 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/07/16/cult-of-done/ I bought a slip and slide today. Before you ask, it was not the megashark slip 'n slide, also available in 3-d. I could only wish. The idea of a slip 'n slide, however, is misguided. Ii mean, you're taking a running start and diving on to a water filled surface. There ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/06/28/slip-and-slide/ Quotations are an interesting thing. Sometimes I'll be feeling a thought about something; food, defeat, happiness- anything, and I can Google a listing of quotes that refer to this. It's a really simply way of finding the exact words to describe a feeling that i'm having, or a thought too ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/06/22/quotes-frost-and-berra/ Ok, so lately i've been reading a lot about our food system and how it works. Well, how it doesn't work is probably a more apt phrase but I'll get into that later. The thing is, I'm surrounded by several people that often talk about things such as factory farming, ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/06/16/grass-fed-and-my-war-on-the-word-just/ It’s hard to put into words what love actually is. Not hugs and kisses, but to describe the indescribable. To express exactly what it is to a person who would otherwise not know. In some respects, it’s easier to explain it to a child in terms of how they feel ... http://www.mikegangl.com/2009/06/07/juxtaposed-emotions/