The Teaspout Experience

Happy Birthday Nick Nolte.

• Neil Mason @Foviance offers tips for strengthening Voice of Customer Analytics: make it a job / integrate / listen. http://bit.ly/bI4xAS #
• Had Seafood Bisque @Zoup! for lunch after trying Chicken Pot Pie & Chicken Dumpling. Wish more places would adopt sampling practices. #
• "As the sky shines bright above me, my shadow I see beside me. So six more weeks of winter it will be." http://www.punxsutawneyphil.com #
• Usability as effectiveness, efficiency & customer satisfaction: why the iPad will succeed http://bit.ly/9q2aLT from @econsultancy #
• JRR Tolkien reminds us: “Not all those who wander are lost.” #

• RT @nickdenardis: Hey @twitter please add #Detroit to trending – So much going on! #SMCD #tweetea #FMW10 #detroittu #pieup #tedxdetroit #
• @BobbleHeadGuru Predict: name: iPad / cost: $999 / Data plan: $20/mo. #
• Happy Diamond Jubilee to India. 60 years as a Republic http://bit.ly/5kKgR9 #

• Previous message only intended for @econsultancy to be added back to their list. #
• I am an @econsultancy subscriber! Now follow me back, dammit! #
• RT @MyGuru @dahara: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein #
• @mary_russell It seems there is disagreement about bees & sleeping. Bees have rest state like human sleep. http://bit.ly/4EN4BN #omgfacts #

• It's been a looong week – bone in tuna today; time for TeaHaus Pineapple – Mango tea. (Contains: Black tea, pineapple mango) V. Fruity. #
• We've reached that point in Winter where everything keeps falling off my cubicle walls as dryness sucks life from velcro & tape adhesive. #
• RT @Starbucks Today is a big day for tea drinkers. All new full leaf teas. More info: http://j.mp/6TQtKb #
• Great Company Culture article by Tony Hsieh of @zappos. On a Scale of 1 to 10, How Weird Are You? – http://nyti.ms/52HbDw #
• Today, setting up Bose Wave system w/ Soundlink. Chester, the beagle, keeps stopping in his tracks-sits, looks & listens. Dog audiophile. #

• RT @TeaEmbassy It is good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing ~Anon via @AmyDelaine #
• RT @CallMeThirsty Great, short post on "5 places to buy tea online" http://bit.ly/6Jm7rE #
• Watched Renaissance of Tea DVD from @teance. Surprised by elegance and depth of information. Great x-mas gift! http://bit.ly/6wnqeD #

• "You were looking for the key for years but the door was always open." -Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger http://bit.ly/5DI5qF #
• Sipping Ghoom Darjeeling from http://www.alltea.com. Smooth flavor-not too bitter, amber color, delightful taste. #
• NY Resolution Candidate #1: Continually ask myself "Do I need it?" #

• Just finished listening to "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"; truly sad this book is done. The day is so much more mundane without it. #

• When tea becomes ritual it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. M Barbery, Elegance of the Hedgehog #
• Cool idea: Decide what you want for lunch and make your own coupon to take in with you. From @Olgas_Kitchen http://bit.ly/4MLYp8 #
• Best part of Secret Santa is looking @ everyone anew with idea that "Hey, you could be my Santa; don't you look nice today." #
• "When a clerk gets so good she can earn better wages elsewhere, let her go." -FW Woolworth quoted in "Cheap" by Ellen Ruppel Shell #

• Received a holiday card from a client. Feel like I want to frame it. Such a sweet gesture. #