Fun on a Hot Summer Day
Pictures from a recent birthday party in the backyard: Slip 'n slide, 12-year old boys, and Super Soaker water guns. Followed by the fascination of what happens to silly putty left to melt on the patio furniture: BTW--It cleans up...
What Happened Before Blogs?
In the Boulder County Business Report, a local paper, the current issue lists bloggers in the area. (No, I wasn't on the list, although I do have a higher number of average visitors per day than others on the list. ...
Hiring Good People
Dan Pink's blog pointed me to a well-written posting from Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and one of the guys who figured out how to make the Internet alot more usable with a web browser (Mosaic). For many of us,...
Update on Wascally Wabbits
Last year about this time, I blogged about my problem with rabbits in my backyard. The rabbits seemed to have moved to the front yard and while they are a nuisance, I see them more in my neighbor's yard than...
Grand Gestures
I read in a travel magazine about Rory Stewart, author of the book, The Places in Between. The book describes his 600-mile walk across Afghanistan in 2002, right after the fall of the Taliban. He's told by an Afghan when...
Circus vs. Art
A great quote from George Lucas, when asked at the D: All Things Digital conference what he thought about Internet video: "There are two forms of entertaining. Circus is random. And voyeuristic. It's basically what you see on YouTube now....
Slash Careers
If you missed the June events in Denver with Marci Alboher, kick yourself, twice. I interviewed Marci for the Northwestern University Club of Colorado on one night and then the next night, Marci gave a talk for the Lighthouse Writer's...
Boys and Women
My older son will be entering high school in the fall. It seems to be the norm these days that 8th grade graduations are big affairs. The school had a formal ceremony where the kids dressed up, walked up to...