Being on the front page of a newspaper...does that make me famous?

Ok.. Ladies and Gentlemen....I was featured on the front page of a newspaper and yes it is a real newspaper with a substantial circulation and yes I was on Page One of that newspaper on January 16th, 2009.
What did I do you may wonder to get here: Well, I was in the right place at the right time. Did you hear this before? I sure bet you did :)
Click here to see what I mean.
Our local newspaper - West Windsor Marketplace featured an article on Yoga and the Integral Yoga Institute at Princeton was mentioned in it. I am taking classes there and one saturday they took some pictures while we were in class. One of the pictures that they chose to publish has me in it.
I remember Avinash asking me few months ago about 'being famous' and if jumping from a tall tree that nobody jumped from before can make him famous. I had to explain to this then 6 year old the difference between being famous vs. being dumb and being cool vs. being smart and few others and that conversation was a long one but, I think/hope he will not try such stunts just to be 'famous'.
Now, if I tell him that his Mommy was featured in the front page of a newspaper and that's usually reserved for pretty famous people, will that be viewed as 'twisting the truth'... maybe a little bit?

Project in a Petri Dish...leave the bacteria alone

I just heard this Project/People Management tip using the Petri Dish analogy (yes... this is pretty intriguing...read on). So, imagine a project to be a Petri dish and the different bacteria you want to grow in it to be different people/teams within the project. Apparently, biologically it is proven that the same bacteria can grow/behave differently in different petri dishes. Now, it looks like the same rule applies to people as well... the same person/team can end up behaving differently on different projects...since the circumstances, surroundings are all different. Now, a Project Manager like me who is unaware of this fact, can get frustrated that the bacteria in this petri dish is acting differently from how it did in the last petri dish and hence straying away from the 'project plan'. But, remember.. even the most seasoned biologist cannot control the bacteria in the petri dish.
This is in line with my belief that Project Management Methodology is not an exact science and has to be trimmed and customized based on the context of each project. To add to it, the experiences from the past can guide you in picking the right processes and recognizing the patterns and themes that are emerging but, the actual handling of the situations/issues before they become showstoppers is as much art as it is science. But, even with that there is only so much one can do in creating the right environment and then its the bacteria that decides how it wants to grow..
I feel so much better now... a seasoned biologist cannot do it... so who am I to control this bacteria that have a life of their own...