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Me: “Ooooo, as in Warren Sapp?” (hoping to sound like I know what I am talking about)

Husband: “Um, no. As in Benny Sapp. Warren Sapp was like 5 years ago.”

Ray Rice, Sidney Rice, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Danieal Manning, Nick Harris, Ryan Harris, Jarred Allan, Jake Allen, Russell Allen…there are just too many of the same names in the NFL. It makes it hard for a girl to follow.

We need more creative names, like Naufahu  Tahi, Knowshon Moreno, Chad Ochocinco, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Lofa Tatupu, Darcel McBath, King Dunlap, Wesley Woodyard and Ashton Youboty.

Here is a word cloud of the most common names in the 2009 NFL roster, no wonder its so confusing!

Yesterday I ran across a post by Jennifer Hohn which points out that as a kid, time moved slowly because you were taking in all the amazing details. Time seems to speed up because as we grow up we start to overlook all those details.

Perhaps there is also a mathematical reason that time seems to move more quickly as each day goes by. As you get older, the day to lifetime ratio decreases, so each day feels shorter in comparison to all the days that have already passed.

For example:
When you are 5 years old, 1 year is approximately 20% of your life.
When you are 25 years old, 1 year is approximately 4% of your life.
When you are 50 years old, 1 year is approximately 2% of your life.

When you are 5 years old, 1 week is approximately 0.3846% of your life.
When you are 25 years old, 1 week is approximately 0.0769% of your life.
When you are 50 years old, 1 week is approximately 0.03847% of your life.

When you are 5 years old, 1 day is approximately 0.05479% of your life.
When you are 25 years old, 1 day is approximately 0.01095% of your life.
When you are 50 years old, 1 day is approximately 0.00547% of your life.

Whenever Friday rolls around and I wonder what happened to Monday through Thursday, I can’t help but think if there is a way to slow time down. Mathematically, it doesn’t look like there is much hope. Maybe the best idea is to take Jennifer Hohn’s advice and train ourselves to be truly present in the moment.

Here is another captivating video from Rob: Webby’s Gala Opening Sequence 2008.

A few interesting facts: the pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher (from Wikipedia); there are 17 Calvin and Hobbes books (from Wikipedia); Calvin is shown writting with both hands (from this site).

All strips on this page are courtesy of Bill Watterson and were found on CalvinAndHobbesFacts.wordpress.com, Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery, and Ecollo.

12. “Just Like Christmas” Low

11. “Christmas” Leona Naess

10. “Peace” Norah Jones

9. “Sweet Secret Peace” Neil Finn

8. “Maybe This Christmas” Ron Sexsmith

7. “Christmas All Over Again” Tom Petty

6. “Christmastime” Smashing Pumpkins

5. “River” Sarah McLachlan

4. “The Christmas Song” The Raveonettes

3. “Christmas Song” Dave Matthews Band

2. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Death Cab for Cutie

1. “Last Christmas” Jimmy Eat World

The anger stems back to a comment made by AT&T’s Ray de la Vega regarding the amount of broadband consumed by smartphone users. Supposedly around 40% of AT&T’s broadband is sucked up by just 3% of users (from an engadget post). Now AT&T wants to make up for this with usage meters and tiered pricing. So long “Unlimited” plans.

Earlier this week, an “Operation Chokehold” post was written by Daniel Lyons (a.k.a. Fake Steve) on the satirical blog Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. The “operation” calls for all iPhone users to run a data intensive app for an hour at noon Pacific time on Friday, December 18. The goal is to “overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees” in hopes that it will “Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments”.

Whether the post was a hoax or a real call to action, people are responding. Supporters are popping up all over the web. The Facebook event has 408 confirmed attendees and the Facebook page has 1,285 fans (as of 10:30 MST on 12/16). Below are some interesting graphs tracking recent tweets containing “operation chokehold” (from Twitter StreamGraphs and Twitter Venn).

On the other side of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who think this plan is ridiculous. Recent blog posts across the web are focusing on the skewed judgement behind “Operation Chokehold”. Erik Zeman points out that it is wrong and maybe even illegal to willingly participate in something that could prevent other paying customers from being able to use AT&T’s services. It could even result in lawsuits, or iPhone users being cut from AT&T.

I can’t help but wonder what AT&T is thinking. Its been a challenging few months, begining with Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” ad, followed by AT&T’s mediocre response-threatened legal actions and ads which were criticized by many. Now they must decide the best way to approach this attack by their own customers.

It seems like there would be a better solution for disgruntled iPhone users to get their point across, like the iPhone app AT&T Mark the Spot which notifies AT&T when there is a disruption in a user’s coverage. If inducing change from AT&T is the goal, automated reports of legitimate coverage issues might be more effective than threats from a handful of irate users. Or a few intelligent iPhone users could figure out a third-party solution and present it to AT&T. According to this NY Times post, the iPhone may be more of the problem than AT&T’s coverage.

With out technology and social media, this “operation” would probably never be more than a thought. Its remarkable that we have reached a point on the convergence of society and technology where people can be motivated immediately, over the internet, to work together across the globe for a common belief. But its scary that the people being motivated may not be fully informed and the actions they are willing to take may not be the best solution.

Other companies can learn from AT&T’s mistakes. If clients are unsatisfied with your product or services, its important that you immediately communicate what you are doing to fix the issue. Not many companies are prepared to handle a social media coup.

In an interesting twist of fate, the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs mentioned in a post this morning that they are having issues posting new content to the blog, and readers are having issues viewing previous posts. Its weird how Karma works…

David Heitman at The Creative Alliance sent me a link to this video when it was first posted on Socialnomics. I just ran across it the other day and remembered how in makes me pumped to create some social media magic. It would be interesting to see how the stats presented in the the video have changed since the video was created…

Here is another intriguing video from Socialnomics about a huge topic recently, the ROI of social media:

Our big fluffy comforter not getting back from the dry cleaner in time for my Dad’s visit this weekend…that falls under “Everything you suspect might happen”. I should have known.

Finding the perfect purse on sale at Macy’s on Black Friday…that would be under “Everything you wish for”.

My husband getting the perfect job he just applied for…we will put that under “Everything you hope might happen”.

Very optimistic.

You can find more of Wendy’s work on her blog.