Would $6 change your life?

A man named Alec Brownstein has managed to change his life with $6. As a man on the job hunt, Alec chose a very creative way to market himself to creative directors over the Internet. An admitted self googler, Mr. Brownstein bought the rights to some of his favorite directors and paid $.15 a click to add a link when their names were googled. He chose "Hey, (creative directors name) googling yourself is a lot of fun. Hiring me is fun, too." And then he posted a link to his web site alecbrownstein.com
He was contacted by all but one of the directors he did this to and was eventually hired by two of them.

Pretty amazing if you ask me! I am definitely impressed that he would think of something so cool. It also seems as though it paid off for him and gave him 15 minutes of fame at the same time.

I am not as creative as this gentleman, in fact I can't really think of anyone I know who is this creative! I say he deserves all the notoriety he can get and if those companies who hired him don't treat him well, there will be another in line to hire him from now on. Imagine what he could do for your business is he was in charge of marketing??

My first 5K

On May 15th, myself and plenty of others will be running (or walking) in a 5K event for the Joplin Family YMCA. The event is in honor of our Armed Forces, and is open to anyone member or non who would like to sign up.

I am running to honor my Grandfather, who was in the Navy in WWII. I have never ran (or walked) in an organized 5K before, so this is a very exciting event for me. 5K is actually just over 3 miles, so it isn't as bad as it sounds.

In the spirit or the day, I have recruited several other people to run with me. So far I have 7 other first timers willing to chug along with me on this early May morning. They are all pretty excited too. We will not be among the first to cross the finish line, but we will finish!

I read that most marathoners are most excited about the t shirt you get for finishing, and I must admit that proudly sporting a finishing 5K and then hopefully a half marathon and eventually a full marathon (26.2 miles!!) is definitely a motivating factor for me!

Intimate Body Scanning

An Miami airport security guard has been arrested for assaulting another guard. The source of the scuffle can be traced back to the body scanner used in security screening. Apparently, the guard who was assaulted taunted his attacker repeatedly about the size of his personal body parts. He saw these parts on the image from the body scanner. Civil liberty and privacy issues are coming to light over how closely the images show the body of people being scanned. The images are deleted and never recorded once the person being searched leaves the scanner.

I was concerned when I read this story. I did not know that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) used technology that was this intense. It is almost scary to think that you can be viewed this closely without even knowing it. I understand the need for increased security measures, but I am also a modest person who doesn't exactly fancy the idea of being naked in public...even if it is a simulated image.

I think this story is very sad. For someone to violently attack another is inexcusable. That being said, I can also see how humiliating it could be for a co worker to basically see you naked and to have to be tormented because of it is not only an invasion of privacy, but inexcusable as well. There will be no happy ending in this case, that's for sure.