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If you’ve got any plans to compete in an upcoming professional sporting event, you may want to check out this list of foods that could make you unwittingly test positive for performance enhancing drugs.

I bet you never thought your bagel could make you test positive for opiates, right?  Think again if you’ve got poppy seeds on it.  And if you thought that Jamba Juice smoothy was a good idea – no sir; you’d better just have some water or else you could get benched for juicing.

Check out the full article here:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-25/are-you-on-performance-enhancing-drugs#r=hp-sf

If you’re looking for a little bit of fun this morning, check out VentureBeat’s compilation of April Fools pranks from the tech industry (here).  Highlights include a glass-bottomed airplane from Virgin Atlantic (where’s the luggage compartment?), a Microwave from Nokia, treasure maps from Google and cat earphones from Sony.

Happy April Fools day!

By RJ Bardsley

If you get the chance, check out this story in BloombergBusinessweek today about the need for more HR in Silicon Valley (story here).  Writer Janet Paskin (@jpaskin) talks about why we need to pay more attention to HR – even in our high tech world where business plans are laid out on cocktail napkins and companies start up in garages. 

By RJ Bardsley

I came across this video today exploring the distribution of wealth in America. While I’m sure there are a few data points you could argue with around how much things have improved for people over the past twenty years, the point is that what we perceive as the distribution of wealth in this country is vastly different from what it really is.

Hi there readers. Just a quick note to let you know that posting on BrandFiller will be slow for the next few weeks. Hang in there – we’ll be back with some exciting stuff soon.

For making the Dean’s list at NECC this semester. Way to go Pam! Keep up the good work.

By RJ Bardsley

This weekend I went out to visit my brother (and fellow blogger) Mike. It has been about a year since he traded in life as a research scientist at the Mayo Clinic to take up ranching back in his adopted home state of Nevada.  My sister-in-law, Erin, comes from an old ranching family and Mike has fit right in. Here are a few photos from the high desert range.

By RJ Bardsley

While we all come to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the gadgets, one of my favorite things is all the automotive stuff going on at the show. From Audi to Jeep to Ford many of the major car brands are here and showing off their latest technology in everything from engines to safety features.

My favorite so far? The Viper… if anyone is keeping a Christmas list for me keep this one mind

Just got my first pair of Chubbies Shorts. Chubbies are a local San Francisco brand: ‘Radical Shorts for Men’. Check em out…it’s ok if you’re a little envious.