What Bill Thinks

“The Stick has become a standard training device at each level of every sport. Pre-activity stretching of muscle, without hyper-extending the joint, is a benefit beyond measure in certain sports. Post-activity use of the Stick enhances and accelerates muscle recovery, which leads to elevation of performance. Professionals report that strength , flexibility, and endurance occur naturally with release of the myofascia and inactivation of offending trigger points.” (from www.intracell.net)

Have you had any offending trigger points lately? They are sorely offensive. The Stick is becoming a standard training device in my routine. The more I use it the more I love it. It really does help with muscle soreness and pain.

My friend chris

My friend and I discovered its marvelousness the weekend of The Flying Pig Marathon in Cincy.

If you run, get this thing. Your calves and hammies will love you for it.

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Posted on Tuesday, 30th June 2009 by Bill

Indystar.com June 9, 2009 Smoking bans staying local in nature

Lawmakers were unable to get enough traction to put a statewide workplace smoking ban in place. That’s a good thing. Unfortunately, as local municipalities take up the cause we will end up with even more unfair situations. Your business may go boom or bust depending on which side of a county road or street you’re located on.

This whole thing is about government encroachment on private property rights. Many well intentioned people would like for it to be about public health and smoking. It isn’t. If it were, we’d just make tobacco illegal. Period.

The smoking issue is tough. Lots of people have lost loved ones to cancer. It is a terrible tragedy. I’m all for getting people to stop smoking but this is not the way to do it. When the government takes the same side of an issue you are on it seems like a great thing. Give the government enough power and sooner or later you will be on the wrong side of an issue. At that point it will be too late. Who will take up your cause?

Let the marketplace and society deal with the issue. Keep the government out. They’ve got bigger fish to fry.

Check out this video.

How Far Will Smoking Bans Go

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Posted on Wednesday, 10th June 2009 by Bill

Driving by the Castleton Mall in Indianapolis, I noticed an advertisement for Houlihan’s restaurant.

They are doing a promotion to benefit Gleaners Food Bank (a worthy cause). Bring in a non-perishable food item when you go. They’ll flip a coin, and if it’s “heads” you eat free.

The promotion is from June 7 – 14.

Kudos to Houlihan’s for helping out. Great idea!

(Disclaimer: I don’t work for Houlihan’s and haven’t been this decade that I can remember. But I do like a good idea when I see one.)

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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd June 2009 by Bill

Mcdonald’s McCafe commercials are just silly. “Our coffee doesn’t taste like crap anymore” isn’t much of a slogan but that would have been enough for me. I’m not really a coffee snob, more of an opportunist. Starbucks and Panera are in my n-hood. BTW, Panera’s coffee isn’t any better than Micky D’s. Starbucks doesn’t have to worry. Not likely that this was ever a concern. Apparently the thought was that there is enough specialty coffee market to go around. My guess is that Dunkin Donuts will suffer more from the McCafe’s entre in to that arena. I’m gonna skip the mochas and lattes at the Hamburgler’s house but I probably will grab one of the iced coffees this summer. Maybe they’ll add those to the $1 menu.

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Posted on Thursday, 21st May 2009 by Bill

I started using Trillian a few years ago.  Great tool for bringing all your IM services under one roof. 

Eventually, I was doing most of my chatting via Google Talk.  At that point it wasn’t supported by Trillian so I moved away from their client.

With their new instant messaging app, Trillian Astra, they tie in Google Talk and more, including Facebook, Twitter, and Skype as well as the old favorites AIM, Yahoo, and Hotmail.

It’s currently in Beta so I imagine there are a few kinks to work out.  Nonetheless I’m using it now.

Many thanks to the EveryJoe blog for breaking the news to me.

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Posted on Friday, 15th May 2009 by Bill