“I can drill down to the core issue of just about any business that Im familiar with relatively quickly and decide whether or not its worth it to act.”

… please post your process. Would love to know your methods and reasoning. Would make a great read, and would love to know your “lens” methodology. Thanks.

Perhaps the Mavs could experiment with placing a group of select people in the seats directly behind the opposing team’s basket….People who understand the concept and who are willing to work together in a unified effort. (I don’t know if that idea would be feasible?) Otherwise, maybe staff members could hand out flyers to individuals who are in the FT shooter’s line of sight….The flyers would have to give a simple and understandable explanation of how and why “Scientific Free Throw Distraction” works….

I don’t know if I’m completely correct, but here is my interpretation of how “Scientific Free Throw Distraction” affects….

If all the people (behind the basket) in the free throw shooter’s line-of-sight move their “bricks” side to side, back and forth, slowly and in unison, it creates the illusion that the basket or the entire building is moving (From the perspective of the player standing at the free throw line.) The free throw shooter may even feel as if he is moving while attempting to shoot the free throw….

Here are two examples of this “perceived movement” effect….

I’ve often taken my car through one of those automated car washes. You know, the kind where you pull your car inside, put the car in park, and all of the work is done for you….Soapy water is sprayed from above as spinning cleaning brushes work their way across the top and sides of your vehicle….I don’t know how many times I’ve been parked in one of those car washes, and have looked down or reached into my glove box, only to feel that the car was moving as I looked back up. The cleaning brushes spinning and moving across the car gave my brain the sensation that my car was rolling, when in fact the vehicle was stationary….Only the objects around me were moving….(Still it tricked my brain!)

Same concept when you’re walking through the shallow water on a beach as the tide flows in and out….You can be standing completely still, but the water movement all around you can trick your brain, giving the perception that you are moving as well….

Maybe if people understand why they should waive their “bricks” in a particular unified way, they will be more willing to give the distraction method a try? Just my thoughts….

Jim Parham
Yuba City, CA

p.s. good to see u at the game last nite! =) too bad it wasnt the outcome i was hoping for.

After Yahoo accquired broadcast.com, do you have any knowledge as to how it benefitted them from a company growth stand-point. I am asking this question trying to evaluate the recent buying spree of Yahoo (Flickr and upcoming.org)

If we were to name a clear winner in the deal, would it be
1. You and the employees of broadcast.com
or
2. Yahoo

I hope you will find the time to respond.

Thanks
Kay, TX

I always want to order things off the internet, but there is no way I am giving them my credit card number, and I don’t want to deal with PayPal. Why can’t there be just some gift card that you can buy at Krogers [for example]-displayed in the giftcard rack, that is a sort of a temporary credit card, containing very little or no personal info, linked to the card. Call it the “Go Card” or something. You buy it like a Phone Card, go on the internet, type in the Go Card id number, the vendor pulls the balance off the card, and three days later you get your item you have been dreaming of -thru the mail, at your door. No credit card necessary. No ID theft possible, no risk at all, except for the $$ currently on the card.

If they have not done this, they should. There are plenty of seniors or people who fear credit card disaster, who would love to get involved in internet commerce, but fear ID theft, so they stick with brick and mortar. There is a reason some people won’t shop online.

I think there are prepaid credit cards at some drug stores, but this could be displayed on phone card displays, and known to one and all as the safe credit card, that you can use on the .com stores.

~dh

I still can’t believe why somebody who has more or less told the world what he enjoys in the biz world and life in general who has the GLUE and is as media savvy as can be , hasn’t taken one of the most advertisement dollar generating media industries head on and capitlalized on it.Especially since it blends right in with what he already has. MY OH MY

BTW Mark , keep your humility.. ,,XXXLLL $$$$ guys like you that have some is RARE.

Also , IF you need the best ever free throw distractor for the MAV’s playoffs . I know a 300lb er that has a tatoo on his XXXXXLLLL beer belly which he FLASHES while the guys on the FT line .. ):^))
it’s got a huge ROI …cost cheap 2 playoff tickets. I don’t own the tatoo ..I’m the agent. lol