How Would DLR Raise My Kids?
As I’ve said before, I often pause when I’m at a crossroads in my life to ask myself WWDLRD–What Would David Lee Roth Do? I guess it’s reasonable to suspect that my perspective would change once I decided to unleash version 2.0 of this gene package onto the world. Then again, when have I been [...]
Sort The Viewers, Not The Movies
My buddy IB sent this article to me…very interesting. Netflix is running a contest for data crunchers and offering $1M to anyone (or any team) that can beat their current recommendation system by 10%. One of the leaders is a psychologist working by himself who is looking less at raw data and more at human [...]
BIG Manufacturing. Last to Know, Last to Go
I was mulling my current employment situation over yesterday, and I thought of something that I think not many people have realized yet. Dare I say this is a bold prediction? Big manufacturing companies are notorious for being late adopters of technology. From my experience, technology tends to happen to them instead happening for them. [...]
Patrick Henry Would Have Loved David Lee Roth
Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” But that was before DLR and Sammy Hagar left Van Halen. I asked my readers to choose to replace the word death with a Democrat, a Republican, Michael Bloomberg, or VH with Gary Cherone. Cherone was chosen by 38% of respondents. That means that Cherone [...]
Stupor Tuesday
What a stinker. Lot’s of folks around the office are talking about the primaries today. It’s strange to me that so many people don’t pay attention until the day of. Anyway, here’s a quick roundup of what some of the blogs I frequent are saying this morning… Music City Bloggers is taking a poll. It [...]
So It’s Not Just Me
Back before anyone read this blog *wink, cough*, I wrote a fairly snarky post about the absolutely ridiculous commercials for Yaz and Viva Viagra. It seems I’m finally vindicated, as NewsComa is equally creeped out by the Viagra commercial. Every now and then I make a mistake that seems fairly common among bloggers. I come up [...]
My Ideal News, uh, Thingy
I’m not affiliated with and don’t have any knowledge of the newspaper business. You could make the case that this doesn’t make my opinion worth much, but if you consider the performance over the last few years of people who do know the business, maybe doing something different warrants some consideration. Jack Lail has been [...]
Lessons From the Record Industry
Seth Godin has a great post today on the lessons to be learned from the music business. It’s a little lengthy for a Godin post, but it’s definitely worth the full read. I shouldn’t have to say this, but here goes: suing people is like going to war. If you’re going to go to war [...]
Sooner Or Later They Catch On
A little over two weeks ago, Ron Paul made a morning appearance on Fox and Friends and made a slightly controversial statement that was talked about (a little bit) in the blogosphere well into the next evening. Pretty sticky story, huh? Now, as far as newspapers go, our local New Sentinel is pretty forward thinking [...]
Credit Card Regulation, Free Markets, and Paying Cash
The Coyote Chronicles challenges Free Marketers to defend deregulation of the credit card industry: You can make the argument that people who can’t pay their balances in full every month should not take out a credit card, but thats more than a little disingenuous since we would see a staggering drop in consumer spending if people [...]
