PlaysWithTrucks

There are certain generational litmus tests. Did you create your mixtapes on cassette, CD, MP3, or Spotify?

Everything that guy said…

Feb 15, 2025

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A fitting sign for Jury Duty Week. Another My Cousin Vinny sign. This time taken from Trotter’s opening argument in My Cousin Vinny (1992) See the other My Cousin Vinny references:

It’ll work itself out naturally

Feb 10, 2025

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Office Space (1999).

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) It’s one of the defining films of Science fiction, and of the film industry at large. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, and written by Arthur C. Clark, it’s an entire experience. This is one you must watch in your life. Do it in a proper setting. A big screen, a giant…

Tell me when the boys get here

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“Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”. From Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album (1973).

Tonight, On Top Gear….

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From 2002 to 2015, Top Gear was one of the BBC’s most popular shows across the world. What started as a ‘serious’ show about cars and car reviews slowly morphed over time into what is best described as “Monty Python meets Motor Trend.” One of the continuous gags throughout the show was that of their…

The one with the whales.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Captain Kirk’s last words before setting off to save the galaxy once again.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

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in SignPosts

Ah, the first week of January. In which we must face the demons known as “all the stuff we didn’t bother doing since Thanksgiving.”

Not everything can be fixed.

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in Leadership, SignPosts

Learning this Leadership Lesson changed my stress levels as a developing middle manager. I’m naturally a fixer. I want to improve things. I want to take what’s broken and make it right. I want to look at every bad situation and find a way out. I don’t like losing, or taking the lesser path. I’m…

Everyone starts from a different place.

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