Heat waves and cook-offs were the water cooler conversation topics this week. We hosted some clients for dry-rub barbecue ribs and spicy chicken legs, summer salads, and chocolate lasagna. Gorgeous farmer’s market blooms decorated the tables in our very own 8th Street Studio and all hands were on deck. Our Twitter and Facebook streams also looked at rooting and jailbreaking, managing social media, local brews and vino, and the Korean War.

Are you excited for the arrival of the new Prince or Princess of Cambridge?

It seems like the world is abuzz. As of press time, there was no news — but, it sounds like Duchess Kate and Prince William will be welcoming their firstborn any day now.

Is Nokia’s 41 megapixel camera a gamechanger or a gimmick?

The tech world is saying that this new camera is the highest-quality on the market right now.

Do you use a densitometer?

If we have to tell you that it measures the optical density of something, you probably don’t.

What would you do for a raise?

There’s a lot of reasons people aren’t getting raises these days. But, then we think back to those Rapid Realty employees who got a tattoo to get a 15 percent raise — and loved this blogger’s ideas for changing that … everything from using Dwight Schrute as a role model to bringing homemade pies to work to eating kale every day.



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