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Things I think, bourbon and some football thrown in for good measure
We should all understand that Colorado and Washington will not blow the opportunities they have been given with their marijuana mandates. Other states should follow suit. The plant’s medicinal...
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The mysterious case of the teasing donate button and more things I think
Beautiful Sky (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m not ready for fall break to be over but each time I come down here to work I see the piles of books and papers I must sort through, organize and get ready...
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Money isn’t everything but it sure buys a lot of neat stuff
1966 Don’t worry, be happy card (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have not purchased a Powerball ticket yet for tonight’s $400 million drawing. But unless it completely escapes me, I will set out some time...
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Sporting off the top of my head
Another great from one of the undeniable golden periods of heavyweight boxing, Ken Norton, has passed away. Along with most other people who actually read up on fighters at that time, I believed...
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Reboot Friday: October 4, 2013
Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Thank goodness for Reboot Fridays… One of the most troubling developments of the...
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Variety is the spice of hittingthesweetspot
English: U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Speaker of the House John Boehner during the debt ceiling increase negotiations. The official White House caption says “President Barack Obama meets with...
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At least we have the stock market
Stock Market Fortune Cookie (Photo credit: bransorem) I am not going to mention anything about those things going on in that place where we are supposed to be getting some representation for all of our...
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Put off today what you can do tomorrow
Publicity photo of comedian George Carlin and singer Buddy Greco in a skit from the summer replacement television program Away We Go. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) How’s that working out for us in...
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The random road to fruition
English: Actor, entrepreneur Suzanne Somers (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Can Vermont cheddar be from any place other than Vermont? Do you still get the paper? If you are someone who lives with ordered...
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The flow is right on a Mac in the night
Mississippi River (Photo credit: christopherbarnette) I thought it was time to try Apple’s Pages word processing software again on the old Mac G4 Sawtooth. It’s Pages ’09, version 4.0.5 and I had not...
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Living way scarier than dying
Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the Living Dead (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are supposedly many things to be afraid of this Halloween and yet this evening as I feverishly type towards...
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Get paid, get yours: The greater good as afterthought
My LinkedIn network, visualized (Photo credit: For Inspiration Only) You still have a better chance of becoming rich in the United States than you do, say, in Russia. This is because, although the...
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Blow it up as you go along
Blow Hole 2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What happens when a person becomes set in their ways, stops trying out new things like different kinds of food to eat and expects everyone to treat them the same...
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No sleep ‘til Brooklyn
Old Guy Nap (Photo credit: trp0) Sleep sometimes has a way of intervening successfully in a person’s life. Sleep is not for the other person. Sleep is for you. But, I will be having technical...
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Cloud-based, collaborative reporting models to newspapers’ rescue?
Newspapers yellow (Photo credit: NS Newsflash) It is a wonder daily newspapers that cling to archaic business models still exist at all. While I enjoy thumbing through a daily even now, I can’t get...
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Apple betting ‘free’ OS not cheap at all
Mac OS X booting up in single-user mode (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Apple’s release of OS 10.9 Mavericks a month ago forced business analysts and brand loyalists alike to consider the direction the...
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Leopard WebKit PPC speed champ, Glyde brief, Mavericks value redux
Speeding_2 (Photo credit: Matthew Kenwrick) Just when you think it’s time to pack it in when it comes to PowerPC Macs and their choices for up-to-date browsers, a new revision to a browser you use...
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Survival a foundation for personal, professional triumph
English: Apple Store in Frankfurt (Germany) after death of Steve Jobs. Deutsch: Trauer am Apple Store in Frankfurt am Main nach Steve Jobs Tod (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In order to survive, I didn’t...
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Take this job and…
Weird Al’s “Atlantic Records Sucks” shirt worn during his performance of “You’re Pitiful” on August 8, at the Ohio State Fair. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I like to change the lyrics to songs to suit my...
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TenFourFox Release, Bump & Glyde steal finals-taking thunder
final-exam (Photo credit: a bill) Well, I am done. Done with finals that is. Just took my last one in English of all things. Hope that has gone well. I feel good about it although I won’t know all...
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