http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For about as long as I can remember, I’ve been aware of the idea of strategy. Back when I played middle school football, we learned about two big strategic principles: pile up resources at the greatest area of need, and (contrariwise) deploy resources away from the point of contact, to ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/08/26/some-random-thoughts-on-%e2%80%9cstrategy%e2%80%9d/ We were having lunch today with Kristen, over at Lemongrass. And she mentioned that she was starting to become interested in the herbs and spices Anne and I (and her sister and mother) use to stay healthy. I think this is pretty cool, because Kristen is young enough and generally ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/08/18/you-are-what-you-eat/ First of all, American Grocery was awesome last Thursday, as always. The place is a little bit of a secret, but it ought to be a destination. It would be worth coming to Greenville from Asheville, Charlotte, Columbia, or Atlanta to eat at American Grocery. I had the duck. I ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/08/14/roundup/ Smart little brother is back in town. Could you feel the lift in the median IQ of South Carolina about 7:00 this morning? He said the secret conversations with those people about that thing are going well. Nuff said. We’re off to American Grocery. I’ll give you a review. Yeeha! Good ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/08/07/little-brother-part-2/ So, we met last Saturday about 7:00 in the morning at Miss Anderson’s house, to head off for our annual adventure at G-Hills. The trip was pretty uneventful—if a 7+ hour trip with a van-load of fundamentalists can be uneventful. We stopped on our way out of town to pick ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/08/04/the-road/ We’ve had this noise around here that sort of resembles the engine room of an oil tanker. It’s this floor-vibrating rumble. Started about two or three months ago, occasionally at first. Then, when we came in this morning, it was constant. For Kristen and Seth, it was like being part ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/07/21/koko-the-plumbing-detective/ This is principle #18 of the 21 principles. And we really try to follow it. After all, no one of us can possibly be as smart as all of us. But to illustrate this principle, Anne discovered still another benefit of teaching a Sunday school class of teenage girls. Of ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/07/15/great-ideas-come-from-everywhere/ At about 6:00 this morning, I was dropping my little brother off at GSP, for his return flight to New York. He was here for a lightning fast three-day visit, to talk to somebody (I could tell you who, but, well, I just can’t) about something (I can’t even begin ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/07/09/back-to-the-city/ We have a young friend, the 13-year-old daughter of our neighbors up the street, who is a very promising runner. She is already the fastest girl on her high school track team in the mile and 2-mile races. AT 13! So, just to improve and train, she has to find ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/06/30/people-who-can-help/ In the past few days, we’ve gotten blog hits from every continent except Australia and Antarctica. We’ve been visited from Hawaii, and just about every mainland U.S. time zone. And the other day we were hit from an island in the Indian Ocean, off of Africa, which I had never ... http://www.gibbonspeck.com/blog/2008/06/24/just-imagine-if-this-were-an-important-blog/