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Monthly Archives: March 2011
To the Moon Alice – To the Moon
I love films such as this one.
Apollo 11.
The 40th Anniversary celebration. “One small step for man.”
Click here and watch and be awed.
Standings
The Caps are now situated 4th in the NHL with 88 points.We are 5th best in goals against.
We are 2nd in the East. Two points from first place and now 16 points ahead of the 9th place team.
We have 13 games left to play with one long road trip a-coming.
We have a huge game on Sunday afternoon – a national television game – against the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks.
We lead our division by 4 points.
We have won 7 games in a row.
We have work to do.
We know we can’t let up.
We are still quite short-handed missing our #1 center, our #1 D man; another top D man; and a great young goaltender.
But somehow we are finding ways to play well and to gain standings points.
This is a productive team that is having fun and feeling confident right now.
Thanks for the ongoing support and good wishes.
We reached a good place in points in that if we play 500 hockey from here on out we can finish the season with 100 points.
Go Caps!
Missing the Obvious
There are so many pixels that are generated about deal of the day sites and about category leader Groupon.
Many times the pixel generation is about noise and sometimes it misses the big signals. It also misses the romance and the promise about the new category of enabling consumers and merchants to have fun and grow business. And shop – solo or together.
The category isn’t about deal of the day.
The category is about local commerce and then hyper local commerce on a GLOBAL basis.
The category isn’t about discounting.
It is about group shopping and the power of many to drive friends into a store to support a local merchant.
The category isn’t about discounts per se. It is about turning margin of a product or service into an untapped local ad budget. Merchants who never advertised now have a new way to market and drive sales in a very accountable fashion. The last great tools for local small businesses and merchants were Google and before that eBay.
The category isn’t about risk. It is about generating cash up front for small businesses when bankers won’t factor or finance local small businesses.
It isn’t about risk. Groupon stands behind the offers.
It isn’t about an email a day. It is about how you shop; where you shop; what you eat; and how you get entertained. It is the biggest category ever invented. It is about your daily real time life!
It isn’t just about consumers. It is about business, small today – large tomorrow.
Practice
Only 55,000 People Actually Speak Irish
I am serious.
Click here. Learn to speak Irish for free courtesy of Rosetta Stone.
A great deal indeed. Let us celebrate St Patrick’s Day the way the Irish intended.
More on Milwaukee
OnMilwaukee.com. Thank you very much! Click here and see. Thank you.
Yi. Social Media.
Sign up now and thank you Yi! Chinese social media is launched. Click here to check it out.
Move It. Shoot It.
As I noted several months back our power play is what ails us. It was good to see us getting traction on the power play last game and to witness Alex Ovechkin’s first power play goal at home in a long time!
The deadline day moves helped us a lot in the room; on the ice; and in the head. The psyche of the team was worn out with so many injuries and so many grind it out games.
So the new infusion of talent and experience was welcomed by all. The vets get recharged by the young players and the young players take their direction from the vets come crunch time. The coach revels at having experienced vets on the ice.
And the team knows we will have yet another infusion of talent back onto the ice at some point.
Eric Fehr provided more scoring to the lineup. He had missed 22 games in a row.
Alex Semin is healed and injury free. He missed a lot of time. He looks great out there right now.
We will get Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Green back and hopefully Tom Poti and Varly back too. And on and on.
When a team has upside and it looks forward to better times and the team has continuity and is positive, it can ride momentum. It can be upbeat. It can look forward and not back. Thanks to Tom Boswell for writing about the real “spring training” that is going on right now.
I believe in supporting our players, our coach and our general manager. And most of all our real fans.
We are in it together.
I also want to thank Alex Ovechkin for being such a nice kid and a warm human being, traits that a real leader shows. Click here and here. Go Caps! See you all tonight at Verizon Center
Thing of Beauty
I agree.Watch as it all unveils coming into the zone – the steal; the pass; the passing back and forth; and the score. The celebration.
Just perfect all around. Enjoy.