The Weekend contains no workdays. Instances of ‘Tomorrow’ used on a Friday will automatically get mapped to ‘Monday’. A manager’s job is not to motivate. If you want to motivate, become a puppeteer. Meetings, by definition, are not productive. Trying to get things done in a meeting is like trying to wash clothes with the…
Author: Erk
The Need for Beer
This is a simple graph indicating the relationship between bowling performance and beer consumption. You will notice that after some amount of beer, the average bowler’s game is actually better than he thinks it is. This is the bowling sweet spot (or the “zone”), usually indicated by a very relaxed pre-to-light-buzzed state, streaks of 3 or…
Books I May Have Written
“How to Make $Millions$” – it’s a very forward looking book, outlining how I wrote a book on making millions, and thus made millions. Explains in great detail how you can do it too! “What the World Would Be Like if I Hadn’t Written This Book” – A tantalizing vision of an alternate reality where Air Force…
The Idea Barn
Years ago I was invited by my employer to engage in a two day seminar on generating ideas. Perhaps you have also been invited to attend one of these exciting events. We went to a golf resort and had a merry old time. My advice for anyone who has not yet experienced this type of…
Woo Hoo, 1182
Today we here at Stupidopolis celebrate 1182 page views by you, our sporadic, veridic, erratic, pedantic, sardonic, acerbic, and pragmatic readers.* Why 1182? Well, 1182 is the year that the first Sejm, or Polish Parliament, convened at Leczyca. 1182 also happens to be the number of a very important ISO document entitled “Reaction to fire tests for building…
The Drollery of Blood
I’m sure you would agree with me when I say that blood is serious stuff, I mean we need most of what we have to stay alive. But I’m here to argue that blood is also very funny. Allow me to illustrate. One variable that can affect the comedy of blood is volume. how much blood there…
How to Drive Like a Dick
Welcome to part three of my series on driving. At this point you have hopefully learned what set of rules city drivers are operating under, and why so many of them are idiots . You are now ready to study the penultimate level of driving prowess: the Dick. To drive like a dick is to be…
The Limit of Return on Investment
How to Drive Like an Idiot
There’s nothing so easy as driving like an idiot, and there’s no better teacher than driving in a big city. Idiots abound, and observing and imitating them is the the surest way to be labeled an idiot yourself. However, if you do not live in a big city, you may not have the luxury of…
How I lost My First Z
As a young boy I never had much interest in cars. I remember being amazed at how easily my brother could rattle off the make, model and year of any old vehicle we passed on our many road trips. They all looked the same to me. When I got my first car, a rusty old…