[Ron Lindeboom]

Even if your friend didn’t know, the law is still the law and as they say, “ignorance of the law is no excuse and does not make one innocent.”

That is fact, everything else is conjecture and speculation.

Here’s a test to make the point: let’s say for speculation’s sake, that I claim that I don’t know robbing a bank is wrong and I tell the police when they catch me with the money that I had no idea that robbing the bank was wrong. Would they let me go?

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

I have to admit that I had forgotten all about Stan Freberg, Kim. Thanks for the links and the reminder.

Stan’s sense of over-the-top humor was part of what made the Sputnik Era so interesting and stylistic, in contrast to the pervading sense of “duck and cover” that was also so much a part of the time.

As I recall, he used to appear on KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles all the time. He was hilarious.

Thanks again, Kim. These commercials were a nice way to light up a morning. Too funny.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Timothy J. Allen] “I’m not sure I really thought cows were terribly creative until… ;-)”

I just ran Tim’s comment by Bessie® and she was rather perplexed that, as she said, “Humans fail to see just how creative we are. We eat little more than grass and water — which isn’t much on the food value scale, I assure you — and from it we make milk, cheese, butter and other things quite high in protein. You try that with your single stomach and your faulty pair of man udders, Mister Allen!”

I was without retort. I mean: how do you respond to words like that? Especially when you are pre-caffeinated, early in the morning. So I said the only words that came to my mind in the situation: “Yeah, and all it takes is three stomachs and some massive molars, is all.” (Hardly my best retort, but again, in my defense Mister Allen, I was sans-caffeine.)

Bessie tipped her head a bit and got that quite bovine all quizzical look that cows get when they’re talking with you and a question begins to frustrate them, (you know the look), and she muttered something about “Yeah, four legs driving three stomachs and four udders. You try that one, too, Allen.”

So, in a gesture to make her feel better, I gave her a Creative COW® t-shirt, pulling it on over her head. It was then I realized my mistake, as the sleeves hung there embarrassingly empty in the breeze.

How could I have been so blind? It must have indeed been due to the lack of coffee at such an early hour.

As Bessie stood there with those dangling sleeves rippling in the breeze, she again twisted her head to the side in a look of abject befuddlement, giving that sideways glance from her big cow eyes that you always see when cows have something very important to say — and just when I thought that she was about to speak, she walked off, sleeves emptily rippling in the wind.

As she walked off, I heard her finally mutter that “Timothy J. owes cows an apology. That he does…that he does. NASA? Heck, they send monkeys into space. Never cows. Shows how much they know. And they still can’t make a decent Brie or Camembert.”

I promise it happened just like that. Really.

Best regards from an as yet still pre-caffeinated,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

We have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have a link and can you point us to what you are talking about, please?

Thanks,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hi Mike,

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but the problem is that spammers use so many variants that we have to run with a looser, rather than tighter, definition of key spam words. If we didn’t, the site would be buried in spam.

Again, our apologies, but it is the price of having a cleaner board free of the kinds of stuff that we see all over the net today.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Mark Suszko] “Aaron, you have drive and ambition and you want to prove yourself and get recognition and these are all very good qualities. But you need to work on picking the specific battles, picking ‘which hill you want to die on’.”

This is a great way to end a great story, Mark. A wonderful read with my morning coffee. ;o)

One of the adages that I use from time-to-time here with our team is “Decide which battles you are willing to lose, that help you win the war.”

As you say, not every “hill” is worth dieing for. But as you also implied: making “molehills” into the cause célèbre is simply foolish. (The mental image conjured up is actually quite funny: our hearty hero laying dead on the side of his molehill, a victim of the gallant fight to take the top!)

Mark, it is an honor to have you as a part of Creative COW.

Ron & Kathlyn

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[Aaron Cadieux] “If my boss asked me to take a time out from video production to go out and cut his grass for him, would anyone tell me that I am not entitled to additional compensation since I’m his employee? Where does one draw a line?”

Aaron,

Nearly everyday I ask my employees to “expand their job descriptions” by adding new areas of duties to their job descriptions. (No, I do NOT add them with the intention of making sure that they do many jobs in the same amount of time in which they realistically can only do a few. But I DO have them working on jobs that were once the purview of others in the company. We do it so that we can each therefore step in and fill the shoes of each other when a certain type of job is piling up, which guarantees our company’s molbility and security, as well as the security of their jobs. We all “wear 20 different hats” in this company and we once had an employee who, like you, only wanted to work on one job — and that, only whenever he felt like getting around to it. He no longer works for our company. He was the only one we’ve ever dismissed because of his work ethic (or lack thereof)).

I really do hate to be hard on you but you really are what we call a “toxic employee” and if you were on this team…well, let’s just say that you wouldn’t be.

You really need to figure out that you are not someone that really should be working for others. You really are someone who needs to work for yourself. Then, you might get a little relativity and a bit more reality than you currently possess.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
CEO, CreativeCOW.net

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

Better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

[Ron Lindeboom]

We put it up as “ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up” so that it would appear at the beginning of the listings and more people would notice it and maybe take part in using it.

You will find it right at the beginning of the listings.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

The day you posted this, Daniel, I went over and turned off the whole thread.

Sorry that I forgot to come back and mention that and thank you.

Ron

[Ron Lindeboom]

Good points, Mr. Weiss. Very good.

Charge 3x the rate and you will likely be out the door quite quickly. Send David’s letter and then train them and you have a great likelihood of getting one of the longest lasting jobs you ever got from them.

And to quote Mr. Wilson: all you have to do is stay about 30 minutes ahead of them, to pull it all off again and again.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom