Jonathan Bell's (gothamprogroup) Blog

  A game featuring two equally matched teams of kids, roughly between the ages of 8 and 17 (none taller than 5’9”), was nearing its end when I reached the basketball court yesterday evening. Sitting on one sideline, a group of teenage girls giggled, sent text messages and discussed ”important” th...

Google is no more... In an unprecedented decision Google, Inc. has decided to change it's name to Topeka, Inc. in honor of the city's recent decision to change it's name to Google, Kansas.  As April Fool's Day pranks go, this one is a doozy. Not because of any confusion over the name (I'm sure mo...

This morning started like any other workday, but quickly took an interesting turn. Review schedule, appointments and tasks:  Check! Read favorite blogs:  Check! Update Facebook and Twitter status:  FAIL!  EPIC FAIL!!! Morph into a grunting Neanderthal due to Facebook and Twitter failures:  Check!...

Today I was forced to prove I wasn't a criminal. No, not to the FBI, the Overland Park Police Department or even the 80-year-old security officer at the mall. I had to provide irrefutable evidence of my upstanding citizenship by furnishing a copy of my driver's license to a LENDER! This company i...

Beginning Saturday June 13, 2009 Facebook is joining the ranks of Twitter, Myspace and other social networks by providing vanity URLs for account holders. In my opinion, that's great news for everyone, but especially for real estate agents. Realtors, brokers and their companies tend to spend lots...

Today is my 32nd birthday. LOL. And, frankly, sometimes I can stress a little bit. However, after a tough day at the office, I can let the stress of the day carry-on into my personal life or I can change my attitude. Changing my attitude has proven it can be a challenge Recently, I found a soluti...

Today was one of THOSE days. When I woke up this morning, there should have been a deep-voiced narrator saying; "Like homes in the MLS, these are the "Days of Our Realtors..." In college, at the University of Kansas, I was always late for my 1 o'clock class because I couldn't miss "Days of Our Li...

After a very brief stint on Wordpress, "Mr. Gotham's World" has moved to Active Rain thanks to Mr. Joel Kruse, resident Active Rain Guru and customer service wizard. Having spent countless hours, days and weeks searching for the "right" tool to help this blog thrive, I thought I would never quite...

    T-Minus... oh, wait! The countdown is over. Today marks the official debut of "Mr. Gotham's World "on Active Rain. During the past 10 or so days I have started more than 15 different posts searching for the "right" one to inaugurate this site. Some were funny. Some were smart. And, some were...

Breaking news...! I am the latest official victim of the C1B1 Flu, aka 'The Blog Flu.' (See one, be one. See a blogger, be a blogger... get it?) Oh, never mind. that's much to corny for the sophisticated minds at Active Rain. ;) It had only been a few hours since my last post when I started compo...