(This is for a childhood friend )
Remember the movie ‘Blast From the Past‘? The title of this blog post is the tagline from that movie. Described by IMDB.com “about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years”. On the surface a cheesy [...]

From Seth Godin’s new marketing book – Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us.

A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.
As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not he wants to accept the ramifications.
Hmmmm.

(Disclaimer: This entry is hard to follow. If you have no idea what I’m talking about feel free to move along. It doesn’t mean you’re not smart or anything. I’m speaking in pictures and riddles here … )

It’s hard to believe I have been in North Carolina for over two years! There have [...]

Jamming at Ben’s
Sitting here thinking about how insanely awesome computers are nowadays from when I first started programming back in 1997.
Right now my computer is doing the following:

Streaming KEXP.ORG College Radio station at 128kbps
Downloading my songwriting blog via FTP.
Reading the morning news in Google Reader.
Downloaded the latest version of Wordpress and am extracting.
Downloaded a Wordpress [...]

Here are three things that are true:
1. Digital technology, especially computers and cell phones, can dramatically increase productivity.
2. More and more users of digital technology are small firms or individuals.
3. The vast majority of users of digital technology are totally lame in getting the most out of the investment of their time and money.
“Oh, I [...]

If you are a cat lover and a little on the quirky side (which oddly seem to go hand in hand) you’ll get a kick out of the site ICanHazCheezburger.com. Readers submit pictures of cats doing funny things with misspelled quotes from the cats. Because as we know, cats can’t really spell.
Here are some examples:

Their [...]

After the secret multi-million dollar lawsuit and court papers made public, you would think they learned their lesson by now. Still, no apologies and no admission of wrongdoing.
Now this dude (it seems like there’s a new one every week):
Michael Porter, 38, used his trusted position as a ministerial servant in the Jehovah’s Witnesses to prey [...]

National news headline today:
CAPE CORAL, Florida (Reuters) – Phone books that were delivered but never opened rot away next to empty driveways and overgrown lawns, telltale signs that once-booming southwest Florida is now the center of the U.S. housing storm.
Until two years ago, middle-class retirees vied with property speculators for houses and apartments in Cape [...]

I’ve been reading up quite a bit on various religious groups lately, and let’s just say Scientologists are some of the craziest people I have ever read about. Man. There’s others too. There is a group called Word of Faith Fellowship that are actually near me in Spindale, North Carolina.
I hate to hear this group [...]