Optical Illusion

Which way is she spinning? If you watch long enough, she spins both directions....

TommyBaby09 - The Rest of the Story.

So ever wonder what was going on behind the scenes with the Tommybaby09 / WFRV 5 story? Well now you know the rest of the story. Enjoy!

Bottom Line: Social Media for Business Seminar

WOW... my head is just spinning. Today I was invited by Lisa Cruz, the President of Red Shoes PR in Appleton, WI to speak at the "Bottom Line: Social Media for Business Seminar" on June 4th. I will be speaking along with Rick Burnes from HubSpot as well as Lisa and Jess Dennis from Red Shoes PR on the topic of social media in business. My presentation will be more from a personal level but the things I have learned personally from socail media can certainly be applied to your business.

I'm so excited I did a quick vlog to share the news...

Rock on and see you June 4th.

Welcome Andrew Brent Clifford

Welcome Andrew "Drew" Brent Clifford

Born: 3:26 PM cst, 7 lbs. 12.5 oz. 20 inches.

Mom and baby are perfect!!!

WFRV Channel 5 and the Hospital PR agency, RedShoes PR picked up on the fact I was twittering from the birthing suite and sent a film crew to do a story... The rest happened so fast, but the news story is here below follolwed by a few choice action shots.

UPDATE: Web gallery posted with all the pics. Click here.



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Kids Singing Evanescence "Bring me to Life"

This just ROCKS!!!!

I made the 100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds Listing

I have been twitter friends with a great graphic designer out of India by the name if Cheth. He consistently posts great contents and certainly is worthy of a re-tweet more then once in a while. Well he has a killer website and from time-to-time will post twitter backgrounds that he tends to like. Well I made the listing. Not sure if it was out of pitty or not...that's beside the point. The raw fact is I made the list. How cool is that?

To quote a great friend, Navin R. Johnson "Things are going to start happening to me now."

LOVE IT!!! Thanks Cheth!

Ignite: Bram Pitoyo on The Secret History of Fonts

Found this in my RSS feed, interesting watch if you enjoy fonts...

Is your job really that bad?

 

Is your job really that terrible? 9-5 grind got you down? Looks like this guy truly has the "crappy" job!!! YIKES!

Accident FAIL!!!!

I saw this and this just made me roar..


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This is just too much...

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

History of the Mac OS; Parts 1 - 4

The History of the Internet

Forget twitter... FLUTTER

I saw this and just roared!!

An Unexpected eBay Experience - Part One

This week I decided to put my trusty 32 GB iPod Gen 1 for sale on craigslist. BIG MISTAKE!!! -- I'll go into more detail on that in part two of our discussion. After a few spam filled days of craigslist "H.E. double hockey-sticks"... I pulled the ad and moved to eBay...

For this blog posting I want to focus on my eBay sale. When I post an item on eBay I ALWAYS work so hard to explain the items in as best detail I can without overselling. No one wants to get negative feedback or have to return money due to oversell and under deliver. That is bad.

Here's an email I got from my new eBay seller friend Randy...

"Got it today! Man...you da' bomb!!! Good packing, Great product...and it doesn't appear to have ever been f'd with. Smooth, excellent transaction. Good feedback will be left. Thanks so much Tom. I really feel as though I got what I paid for, and so much more.

Thanks, man.
Randy G"

I was so tickled and relieved... Here is what I set back...

"GREAT news randy...

I always worry that I over sell things, when I try to be as honest as possible...

glad you are happy...

my new ipod is being delivered today...

rock on, -thomas"

Thinking that was the end of it, I went shopping, but received this reply while in the check out. I was not ready for what I received....

"Ever since I lost my right arm and damaged my left hand in an accident 19 months ago, ...anything that doesn't require too much digital dexterity, and touts ease of use, is greatly appreciated, in so many ways that I could never appreciate, before. This is as described, and I pray your new iPod brings you as much joy as this, has me. (Rockin to "Daughtry" now on the iPod) Lovin' it man!!! Thanks, again.

Randy"

WOW... this really sent my spirits souring. I even got a tear in my eye. Not sure why, but this just makes you think...you never know where or when you will have an impact. In the oddest places and in the most obscure of situations, you can still make a difference and clearly Randy has made his mark on me...Thank you Randy!

If I had a nickel for every time

This made me smile....


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Hey...Where'd the TommyLog Video Blogs Go?

Hey there...looking for my latest TommyLogs? Well after some serious contemplation and the fact that I'm never 100% satisfied with anything that I do..mixed with the fact I tinker constantly; I have created a second blog dedicated just to my video blogs, or vlog or what I like to call Tommylogs. You can access them from the handy dandy menu bar. On the Tommylog page, you can see a Sparkatopia link there. So no need to add more bookmarks..just know where to look.

To a Child - Love is spelled T-I-M-E: A Short Inspirational Film

Being a parent means many different things to different people. Spending time with my kids is one thing that is very important to me. This video hits the nail on the head and really struck a chord with me...

Hanging with Dad...

Today got this email from my 14 year old daughter Madeline. She entered a "coolest dad" contest in some online girls magazine.. and here is what she posted...

"My Dad is one of the coolest people I know. You see, my parents are divorced so i cherish all of the time I get to spend with my Dad. Most kids i know Dad's fish or watch TV or work in the basement in their free time. But, my Dad is a DJ. DJ'ing is my favorite thing to do with my Dad. We have so much fun together and get to hang out for three to four hours non stop enjoying our favorite music. Most parents listen to music from "their time" but, my Dad listens to the same things most 14 year olds do. When the dance is over I help him pack up our gear and head home knowing I have THE COOLEST Dad ever!"

TOP THAT!!!!

I love you Madeline!

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My Half Million Dollar Overdraft

Well the story starts like this...

I was getting ready to sit down for a birthday celebration for my 1 year old when I ran to the mailbox to see if she had received any new birthday cards. To my surprise I see a letter from my credit union with "URGENT" stamped on it in big red letters. "Oh No!" I think, not an overdraft notice, I was on top of my game and didn't think I was in the trouble. Well boy was I wrong.

I open this letter and it says that I have a $546,020.00 NSF. YIKES!!!!

How can this be? I have an overdraft for half a million and all I get is a letter? No phone call, no personal attention??? What the... it says that I made a transaction to Banks of America for that amount? The darn card has only a $5,000.00 limit on it...

So thinking though the whole thing trying to figure out what happened… Here’s the deal. I went online to pay for my work corporate credit card. I had a $546.02 balance. Apparently I added a few extra zeros to the amount and quickly hit enter. Bam I had just transferred a half a mill to my corporate credit card. WOW. Seems odd that there is no check and balance system and that a credit card with a $546.02 balance can post a payment of over 1000 timers that amount. That just seems crazy.

Well the next day I have quite a conversation with the CFO of my local credit union. She was very sheepish over the whole thing. Apologized up and down for what had happened. My one big question to her was this..."At what level of an overdraft does the system kick this out and I get a phone call and not just a letter??”

She had no answer for me other then she would speak to the person working the overdraft area and make sure they are on the look out for this in the future. Not very comforting, but it is what it is. The big question was what Bank of America would say.

A few days later I did hear from someone at BOA. I heard from a Senior VP over corporate affairs and she said in her 30 years of banking experience, she has never seen anything like this. “I bet not I said!!” I asked how this could happen. In this day and age -with bank transparency at an all time high, why didn’t this get flagged? Isn’t there a system to see that a $5,000.00 credit limit card with a $546.02 balance doesn’t need a $500,000.00 payment?

She told me that their processing systems are over 20 years old and there is nothing like this for checks and balances built into the system…alarming really.

Isn’t it comforting to know that none our financial systems can catch a “butter fingers” like this? Makes you think, what else they don’t catch.

WOW!! The Consumerist picked up on the story Whoops: Typo Causes You To Overdraft $546,020.