Week 3 - The Unseen / hidden Week

Another great week in the land of BIP.

The unseen / hidden week.

Who ever would have thought of the effort that goes into playing the Tom & Jerry theme music, a full orchestra, wow!  I certainly could not have seen this. It puts the whole thing in a different prospectus.

Pumped up Kicks by Foster the People has such a happy / dance beat & when you listen to the lyrics and realise it is about a shooting in a high school you cannot hear the happy beat any more, you start to visualise kids running in fear of their lives. Confused? I certainly am.

I was amazed of what we did or did not see in the Fuzzy Mona Lisa, how different personality types can get completely different views on the same picture. I was  also astonished how different me & my good lady wife are, I would make the smoothies out of fruit in the bowl & with the lovely Bren the fruit would be heading towards the bin. I won't even explain what happens in airports, needless to say I am not allowed mind passports or tickets.

With Geraldine we discover that the same product is hidden in green & red wrapping to test which would sell more.

On Angela Ahrendts moving to Apple one of my fellow bippers asked Naoimh was the position advertised, to which we learnt that 60% of jobs are not advertised. (unseen). Who would have believed that Amazon will send you four auto replies to a complaint by scanning the complaint before reading it.

The last unseen was with David in our Project Management lecture, Titanic - project managed blunders. If ever a project should have been stopped this was it. The project was for luxury & then changed to speed, & the haste to get it to sea without full safety checks was madness, and a disaster could have been avoided had they stuck to the script.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvfir2x344

We are all getting prepared for our many presentations. The trick in presenting is to tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them & then tell them what you told them. Heres an analogy look at the news at  6 or 9 o'clock. They start off with the headlines, the stories behind the headlines & then the headlines.  Its easy, (says he biting his nails).

None of us want to be seen as being nervous (unseen theme again!! ). If you are nervous remember we are all in this together and are all routing for each other.   If you do by chance get nervous, don't forget to breath. Here is s a little breathing exercise to calm you down. Breath in for 5 seconds, breath out for 7 seconds & hold for 3 seconds. Repeat this five times & you will be fine. It slows down the heart & will make you less anxious. It works, but you will be fine.

I put a link on twitter on how to create QR Codes. www.qrstuff.com if you put the a web address in on the main page it will generate a QR code for you. Here is a QR code to another bippers blog. Scan it & see where it brings you, in keeping with the unseen theme I am not going to tell you who it is . I would suggest that you leave a comment on the blog though.

Now that we all have our email DCU addresses, I am going to set up a mailchimp account. We will use the group to see who opens the mail & do they follow a link back to a landing page. It will  be good practice to see how it works. I will generate the first email to get us started. I will email you (DCU mail) the logon for mailchimp to you, we can all have a go. Put recipes up or what ever you like up its a learning experience. A big thank you to our fantastic bakers, Ottalie, Gwen, Michael & Jean I believe.

I finished the IKEA project tonight, be warned, it took me far more time that I would have anticipated.

If anyone needs a hand with blogs or powerpoint, please ask me I would only be too delighted to help.

Here is the Tom & Jerry music again, it is brilliant I  still remember running into the house to watch them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYrUWfLlYI0
 


Regards,
BIP/ S'OD