Mis-Invention

Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals. Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting…

IPPY Awards

I couldn’t understand it, as soon as I started to thank my third grade teacher, I was applauded off the stage… It was a fun event, replete with interesting anthropological studies of authors, publicists and various posses and hangers-on. The food…

Fuso Update

Our Fuso is still in South America. We’ve had some issues with the American shipping company we contracted to ship the truck from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Long Beach, California. It has been a very challenging and stressful experience so far,…

How Not To Do It

Check out this home page: http://www.lijit.com/ Tell me if you have a friggin’ clue what they do. So, since it’s a huge mystery, you click on “about” http://www.lijit.com/about I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything that said so much…

The King is Dead

Someday, we will all look back and reflect on how significant it was that we lived through the death of the American newspaper industry. Right now, however, it is pretty traumatic for those of us who grew up with a…