Paul Sizemore

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Feb 7 / 9:20am

Wax Fang & The Picket Line

I was fortunate to get to see Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line, then later that night Wax Fang at The Speed. I ended up joining the museum, and recommend you do the same. I recorded a few songs on my phone, and thought they would do well to be up here.

2/5/10 9:57 Pm by Wax Fang  
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2/5/10 9:37 Pm by The Picket Line  
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The Picket Line:
Band Members :Thomas A. Minor-Guitfiddle and Vocals, Drumstick-Guitfiddle and Vocals, The String Mizer-Fiddle and Vocals, Pig Iron-Mandolin and Yelling, Pork Chop-Outta-tune Banjo, Cleetus Redundementia- Bassfiddle
Influences: coal miners, farmers, guns, alcohol, the holler, people with little feet that like to walk a lot, alcohol (again), the american worker, and things with strings, thank you

Wax Fang:
Band Members: SCOTT CARNEY- GUITAR, THEREMIN, VOX
JAKE HEUSTIS- BASS, KEYS
KEVIN RATTERMAN- DRUMS, SCISSORS, SIRENS

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/waxfang
http://www.myspace.com/thomasaminorandthepickinline
http://www.speedmuseum.org/membership.html

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Feb 3 / 4:18pm

Cross Reading 50 Cent and Good to Great: Becoming a great hustler

So, I'm doing something new to create more connections in my mind, and gain a new insight into, and to increase my entertainment in reading. I'm reading two books and seeing how they cross link.

Good to Great by Jim Collins and The 50th Law by 50 Cent (co authored by Robert Greene).

BTW, after getting halfway through 50 Cent's book, I'm his number one fan. You can be, too.

Filed under  //  Book Report  

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Jan 29 / 1:36pm

Mobile Unified Communications: the future of responsive employees

The responsiveness of the enterprise employee has been a pain point for a long time; everyone has a horror story of a long hold time only to be connected to the wrong resource or worse the call dropped. Unified Communications (UC) allow employees ways to connect and remain responsive. UC increases productivity through timely communications and it reduces operational costs by merging the most common communication channels – a win for both the customer, employee and enterprise.

Mobile services are essential in the growth orientated enterprise in order that it remain competitive and effective in the modern business climate. As a result, mobile expenses are increasing rapidly in today’s enterprise businesses. Not all users have the same needs – sales professionals and mobile executives have quite different requirements than those users in the corporate campus.

The employee will benefit from:

  • One phone number
  • One voice mail
  • Internal PBX extension dialing
  • Ability to use newest communications technology including the iPhone and Droid

Smoothstone incorporates these benefits to create a transparent communication platform for the responsive and mobile employee, and allow them to become more mobile by integrating both work and life communications.

At one time people were isolated from enterprise communications services; they would come in to work and check their personal life at the door. Now, work and life blur, and it’s essential that enterprise communications tools change with those changing cultural norms. The new mobile employee can now benefit from a unified communications approach with their mobile handheld sets including features such as unified voice mail, conferencing and a single number.

The employee’s company can benefit by reducing total monthly charges, having a central call detail of all mobile phone activity and using more of the company’s IT infrastructure (corporate voice mail services and international calling plans).

In specific the company will benefit from:

  • Central Call Detail Recording (CDR)
  • Common enterprise dialing plan
  • Policy enforcement
  • Toll avoidance

Mobile Unified Communications offers an outstanding opportunity to change business processes and empower employees to be more responsive while reducing the operational bottom line. As UC matures employees will become more responsive, and allow the enterprise to operate with the urgency of a emerging company, thus providing a win for the customer, the employee and the company.

 

Filed under  //  enterprise communications   Unified Communications  

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Jan 5 / 5:11am

Henry Clay apartments in Louisville

The ongoing search for a downtown loft lead me to the Henry Clay building in downtown Louisville. The Clay is nestled between the YMCA and Fourth Street Live; it's a great location. The units have polished concrete floors, and a wonderful location. This is a historic building, built back in the 1920's, so there aren't many of the amenities of modern buildings like a lot of communal areas. The units have lower ceilings, and are a mix between industrial and residential. They seem to be trapped in no man's land. 

The photos are of two units, a one bedroom and a two bedroom. Notice the VOIP phone - that was a real surprise. 

On my rating matrix it rated: 9 (an aggregate of Cost, Community and Interior score). 

Links:

Address: 
604 South Third Street
Louisville, KY

         
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Filed under  //  Lofts   Louisville  

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Jan 5 / 5:10am

Fluer De Lis on Main: This is your parent's loft living

In my opinion the Fluer De Lis on Main development represents part of what is wrong with Louisville and the country. Real estate as investment over a place to live. After touring it, I feel more strongly about saying that; they are meant to lure the suburban dwellers back to the city, only Louisville hasn't gone through a great suburban migration. People can comfortably live in their Crescent Hill or Prospect home, and commute in to the city for work, their favorite play or sports event. There's very few affordable AND cool living spaces downtown. Also, most of the spaces are not for the young mobile professional. There are not many places for the boomerang professional to try out Louisville without buying into living here. Louisville needs more swanky downtown rentals in order to make moving here easier for the convincibles. Sorry, I digressed from the loft review, I'll resume. 

 Fluer De Lis on Main has great communal spaces. It has a kitchenette, a room with a fireplace, courtyards and balcony space. The location is excellent. The entire development is best of class. It's so expensive, it only works as an investment. 

On my rating matrix it rated: 9 (an aggregate of Cost, Community and Interior score). The standard interiors are 'baby boomer,' and they are expensive. They are investments, not meant to be lived in. They have great meeting spaces in the development, that's what pulls the score up over the cost and interiors. 

Links:

Address:
324 East Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202-1285

                           
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Filed under  //  Lofts   Louisville  

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Jan 5 / 5:09am

Viewing the ZirMed Towers from the Glassworks Lofts

These lofts are industrial, and the creative class needs more lofts like this, only more financially assessable. These lofts are very large, and offer a lot of space. Communal spaces in the building are rather limited, though. Residents have access to the Glassworks rooftop, and even have access to the shows free. The lofts I looked at looked over the new ZirMed Towers. In addition, there is Jazz in the basement with Jazzy Blu. 

On my rating matrix it rated: 11 (an aggregate of Cost, Community and Interior score). 

Links:

Address: 
815 West Market Street
Louisville, KY

                 
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Filed under  //  Lofts   Louisville  

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Jan 3 / 8:28pm

My 400% devil robot tofu head be@rbrick

This is one of my five favorite material possessions! So, one of the things that I do every so often, is pick my five favorite things I own. This allows me to think about the things I want in my life, and make sure I don't have too much. This is a be@rbrick that I bought from Toy Tokyo, and it was designed by Devil Robots. They made a 3" one, and then they also made one that was 400% of the 'normal' size, or the one I have. One of the things I like about it, is that there is father and son Tofu Head controling it, and they are on a rampage against everyone that wants to eat more tofu. How can I not like this; it's red, too. The little guy next to him, well when you eat him, watch out for the bones, they might get stuck going down.

- Paul

Filed under  //  be@rbrick   Devil Robot  

Posted from Louisville, KY

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Dec 28 / 1:15pm

Changing the Favicon in HubSpot

 HubSpot is a great platform for small/medium business to use for their B2B sites, and they offer a lot of ways to customize your HubSpot hosted blog. One of the ways is to upload a Favicon for your blog.

1) Go to Settings

2) Go to the “File Manager”

 3) Click on the favicon.ico, then on “View/Edit File”

4) Browse to a new file, then upload.

 

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Dec 18 / 4:04pm

Skype in the enterprise: Can you hear me now?

Skype just released their SIP beta in the open, and it's going to change the business communications landscape. Businesses can use their existing SIP-based PBX or Unified Communications platform for a minimal monthly charge.

The Skype admin tool is full featured, and allows administrators to manage employee accounts. Admins can control feature and number availability. The company seems to be channeling resources into the admin tool rather than the desktop client. 

There are over 520 million Skype users worldwide. Bridging between those users and the complex world of telephony is a substantial gain for the industry. Skype is introducing the concept of enterprise VOIP to an wide audience, and the industry will grow as a result.

Filed under  //  SIP   Unified Communications  

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Dec 13 / 3:14pm

Second Story Man Live at the instore

Carrie Neumayer's band, Second Story Man,  played EarXTacy today for their album release. It was a real treat getting to hear them. They didn't bring their drums to the instore, something about the economy and having to sell them to buy some presents and the drums are at Doo Wop.

Second Story Man is:
Evan Bailey (drums, keyboard & vocals)
Jeremy Irvin (guitar & vocals; and founder of Landmark Recordings)
Carrie Neumayer (guitar & vocals)
Kelly Scullin (singer/ songwriter/ bass player)

 

Earxtacy In Store by Second Story Man  
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Filed under  //  Louisville   Louisville   Music   Music  

Posted from Louisville, KY

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