Monday fun

Yes, because we had a brand team workshop, nothing can be complete without an outdoor team-building exercise. However, after reading the agenda a week ago, I forgot to notice the last sentence: wear sneakers, jeans, and shirt. So, needless to say, I dressed up today with a dress shirt and black slacks.

And so the the outdoor activities went like this:

1) build the tallest mud castle
2) Egg toss competition
3) Obstacle Course
4) Unilever Logo Design using Unilever Bestfood products (i.e. Skippy Peanut Butter, Hellman's mustard, Lipton Pasta)


The end result was my dress shirt is egged, my pants are really dirty and I didn't have to work today. It was a fun day, except for my clothes, which reek of egg.

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When your AIM is away, the hackers come and play

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Source: ABC news

Watch out for rich people in their fancy cars.

It turns out people with higher incomes say they push past the speed limit more often than middle-income drivers, according to data gathered by the Gallup polling organization for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

"In Los Angeles, anyone will tell you that most speeding is done by 17-year-olds in souped-up Hondas," said Steven Berglas, a California psychologist specializing in white-collar criminal behavior who was not surprised by the finding. "The next group is really older guys in the really slower models of Mercedes who are trying to overcome mid-life crises."

Dawn Royal of Gallup found the relationship between moderate speeding and higher incomes to be statistically significant, and was surprised to find such a correlation. "I was actually intrigued by it," Royal said, "especially because it only seemed to hold true for the speeding elements and not the other aggressive driving measurements."

New Analysis
NHTSA/Gallup's 2002 National Study on Speeding and Aggressive Behavior initially concluded young people and males are most prone to aggressive driving, and that appears to remain true. However, Royal's fresh analysis of the data, requested by ABCNEWS.com, found high income may be a lesser determining factor for predicting moderate speeders.

According to the data, 60 percent of those surveyed with household incomes from $75,000 to $99,999 — and 66 percent with household incomes of $100,000 or more — said they "often" or "sometimes" drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit, compared with 42 percent to 49 percent of people at lower income levels.

Similarly, 77 percent of drivers with household incomes between $75,000 and $99,999, 73 percent earning more than $100,000, and 70 percent earning between $50,000 and $74,999 said within the past week they had exceeded the number of miles per hour over the speed limit that they thought might lead to a police stop.

So basically a majority of Asian American drivers of ages 18-30 are speeding excessively due to souped up, ugly high spoiler Japanese cars.