Your definitive ranking of DirectTV commercial Rob Lowes.
10. Far less attractive Rob Lowe
7. Rob Lowe (the normal one)
6. Peaked in high school Rob Lowe
5. St. Elmo's Fire Rob Lowe (I know that one has not been in the DirectTV spots, but he should be)
There are many ways and methods by which one can direct the basketball into the basket.
Here is the ranking of many of these methods, from least interesting/appealing up to most awesome.
The Finger Roll
20. Basic layup
19. Reverse layup
18. Standard jumper
17. Corner three
16. Willis Reed's two buckets in Game 7 of the 1969-70 NBA Finals
15. Heave from 30+ feet to beat the buzzer
14. Basic dunk
13. Put-back slam dunk
12. Two-handed set shot (see Schayes, Dolph)
11. Underhand free throw (see Barry, Rick)
10. Catch-and-shoot 3-pointer (see Miller, Reggie)
9. Jump Hook (see McHale, Kevin)
8. Reverse pivot step-back jumper (see Sikma, Jack)
7. Alley Oop jam (see Griffin, Blake, (among many))
6. Fall back, baby (see Barnett, Dick)
5. Running two-hand dunk (see King, Bernard)
4. Teardrop (see Jackson, Mark)
3. Sky Hook (see Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem)
2. Mid-range bank shot (see Duncan, Tim)
1. The Finger Roll (see Gervin, George)
Note: The blog is taking the rest of the week off. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend and if you are not in the USA, well, pretend you are in the USA and take a few days off.
We Need More:
Really cool, interesting, and innovative ideas for work, workplaces and people (see Fuel50, BlackbookHR, Data Morphosis, BrandAmper, QUESocial, and Zenefits).
Simple and elegant approaches to solve complex questions. 
People who don't take themselves too seriously.
BBQ.
We Need Less:
Updates on your Fantasy Football team.
Emails sent at 11:49PM.
Details about your latest run, CrossFit Workout, or set of push-ups you did. You do know you get the same benefit and burn the same number of calories even if you don't Tweet about your stupid workout, don't you?
War or combat analogies when talking about sports. 'That quarterback sure is a warrior down near the goal line.'
Sports analogies when talking about business. 'This new marketing campaign is sure to be a home run with the target demographic.'
Telling us all how busy you are or how hard you are working.
Comparing yourself to the competition. Forget the competition. Most of the time the people/companies that you are worried about are just as amazingly paranoid and possibly dysfunctional as you. Don't worry about them. There is plenty of opportunity for everyone.
Tom Brady. I am so sick of Tom Brady. (I am a Jets fan).
Have a great weekend!
You know you have a favorite toy from the past, from your childhood, but is your favorite toy the BEST toy of all-time/forever? Read on and find out...
100 - 26 - (in no particular order) Wooden blocks, the duck that you pulled with a string thing, the vacuum-like toy that had a round plastic bubble full of little balls, Magic 8-ball, Erector Sets, frisbee, Lincoln Logs, and about 60 other fun for a few minutes but otherwise not that awesome toys
25. NERF football
24. Rock'em Sock'em Robots
23. Ken
22. Silly Putty
21. Slinky
20. Mr. Potato Head
19. Play-doh
18. Lite-Brite
17. Mattel Electronic Football, (the small, hand-held one where the players were just tiny green lines)
16. Transformers
15. G.I. Joe
14. Yo-Yo
13. View-Master
12. Etch-a-Sketch
11. Tonka (props to the classic yellow dump truck, but they were all pretty cool)
10. Barbie
9. SuperBall
8. Wiffle Ball
7. Rubik's Cube
6. Simon (original one with the red, blue, yellow, green lights)
5. Hot Wheels
4. Little plastic green Army Men
3. LEGOS
2. Star Wars Action Figures
1. Crayola Crayons
Your definitive ranking of store-bought cookies. And yes, I know that 'Home baked cookies are better!', that is not what this ranking is about.
Here goes:
99. Animal Crackers
98 - 16. Every other cookie that you have ever heard of
15. Lorna Doone
14. Famous Amos Chocolate Chip
13. Archway Oatmeal Raisin
12. Pecan Sandies
11. Teddy Grahams Honey
10. Fig Newtons
9. Nilla Wafers
8. Nutter Butter
7. Vienna Fingers
6. Chips Deluxe
5. Milano
4. Fudge Stripes
3. Oreo (original)
2. Oreo (Double Stuf)
1. Chips Ahoy (original)
Tell me where I'm wrong and have a great weekend!
Steve