Todd Lyden

  Days six of the #reverb10: Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? A few weeks ago I discovered a local restaurant that makes a DYNOMITE lemon chicken soup, Greek style I believe.  I killed myself to find a comparable recipe but found one online that I think approximates it  here .  My favorite part? It is ridiculously easy. And fun to mess with! I've made several batches now and now are quite the same. I experiment each time- in part to see if I can replicate the original soup (impossible!), but also because I like the variations. The lesson here? Catching lightning in a bottle is hard, but trying to catch it CAN be just as worth while so why not at least try? The other thing I made from this is a happy wife. She LOVES the soup concoctions and is a willing guinea pig each time. You never know what you might be doing that will make someone else happy! What wou...

Is there anything original anymore? One of my recent favorite sayings from a chamber exec I know is using " R&D " or "rip off and duplicate." I'm fairly sure that this phrase was severely R&D'ed before I heard it and you know what? It's fine that it was.  There are certain places where duplication and, more likely, improvement occur all the time and we applaud it! HD-TV, new drug regimes, and cell phone technology is improved all the time and we love it. Image via  Wikipedia  In lab conditions, we want know that extensive use of "R&D" has occurred. Where we don't want to see it? In pretty much any form of writing, most particularly, educational settings or even online. It is EXTREMELY hard not to at least "R&D" most good ideas that are captured online. When you read as much as I do, you can easily see- people share the same thoughts, a lot. With RSS feeders,  Google alerts , and pretty mu...