Mar 31
Last night’s lottery in the US was well over a half billion dollars. But, let’s put things in perspective.
Mar 24
Just Thursday I rambled about a few things and the Mike Daisey story was among them. It was enough of an issue in the press that it made the political cartoon page. This real question is whether it will hurt Mike’s career or is any press, good press?
Mar 10
This week, Apple introduced the next generation iPad. It added some incremental features including Retina Display (this references the fact that your eye can only distinguish a certain pixel density, any higher densities are unnoticed) as well as LTE connectivity. Unfortunately, no Siri on iPad just yet. A perhaps minor twist to this story, is Apple did not number this iPad 3 or even name it iPad HD. So, if you are buying any iPad on the internet be sure you know your you’re buying. Is an electronic implant in out future? Tough to say. I can imagine some intelligent glass lenses that have built in augmented reality, along with face recognition. Imagine meeting someone for the second time and never worrying about remembering their name. You look their way and the name pops up in front of your eyes along with any other key details. I’d like a pair of those glasses.
Mar 03
I am shocked that Mr Santorum has made it this far in the process. The GOP may look for anyone but Romney, but also not Santorum. I predict another candidate will be the Republican nominee.
Feb 25
Not sure if this is the Church Lady channeling Santorum, or vice versa, but it does illustrate one of the reasons I don’t think Santorum makes for a viable candidate.
Feb 18
The 2013 Federal budget is out, all 256 pages of it. I’ve not read it in full just yet, but I’m struck by the topic of the second section, “Simplify.” It states “Simplify the Tax Code and Lower Tax Rates. The tax system should be simplified and work for all Americans with lower individual and corporate tax rates and fewer tax brackets.” If only such things were possible. A nice sentiment, but I’m not buying it.
