Dawn Brancheau and Whale - AP
Sad story today (or yesterday now) of a trainer at an Orlando SeaWorld being killed by Tilikum, a 30 year old 12,300 lb killer whale, in front of an audience. While I think this is tremendously sad and by no means think she deserved it, it makes me wonder why we keep such animals for our amusement. This whale was probably doing what he would instinctively do in the wild. Whether she fell in or he grabbed her, he probably saw her as a toy and didn’t mean to kill her. Or maybe he did, I don’t know. But now this whale could possibly put down after it was forced into this life of smaller “aquariums” and a entertaining us as humans.
I have mixed emotions overall. When something like this happens I think how it wouldn’t if we didn’t treat animals (large animals especially) like this, but when I am at the zoo I do go and watch the dolphin shows (or I suppose being at the Zoo period supports it). Either way I do think this is horrible and I feel tremendously sorry for Dawn Brancheau’s family for what happened to her today.
Have you seen this commercial? I forgot what I was watching (or listening to) the other day when I out of nowhere heard this little kid voice say “Oh ****” with the bleeped out word of course being shit. I laughed and caught it the second time come on. In my personal opinion I thought it was a funny easy to remember commercial (and made me want some Joe’s Crab Shack). But after not seeing it again for a while and asking my family if they’d seen it I find out that some networks have banned it. Dumb! Guess it is just my opinion, but I don’t see how this commercial hurts anyone atleast not more than skimpy clothes or other insinuated things shown on TV.
Oh well. If you haven’t see it, check it out below. Oh yeah. Be honest with yourself. This stuff happens. Parent (or adult) says bad word then the kids repeat it.
See the video..
Audible.com recently added Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! to their long list of audio books and this is one I decided to purchase. I’ve been debating for a few weeks whether or not to buy the physical book as I’ve felt I wouldn’t have time to sit and read it, so I was glad to learn that there was an audio version that I could listen to as I went about my daily work.
If you’ve never heard Gary give a keynote or speech you should pull up Google now and do a search. Gary has so much energy he puts into his talks that when I heard he was doing the reading for this book I knew it was one I would be buying.
Gary offers advice and information in this book that is not like others. Some of the books similar to this make it seem like its easy to just jump in and become rich or successful. Gary lets you know that you have to work for it and “sweat”, but since it is your passion you are doing it should be something you enjoy. I’ve always felt that I could never be happy doing something that I was not passionate about. With Gary’s words and encouragement from this book (and his keynotes, speeches, vlogs) I know that I can take my passion(s) and turn them into a career that I will love and be successful at.
With that I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is working at job they hate or want to start doing something that they are passionate about. Or if you just want to hear Gary’s motivating energy each day to make you feel like you can conquer anything.
