“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have only lived the length of it…I want to live the width of it as well”
Monthly Archives: November 2015
How Much Is A Free Taco?
Paying Attention: Taco Bell’s free breakfast taco promotion, built around the 2015 just-completed World Series, is a rather expensive promotion…but not when you consider the attention it’s bringing to Taco Bell. Here’s the whole story, on the cost of a free taco. This from Bloomberg.Com (highly recommended as one of your morning daily start-the-day reads).
The Big Ugly: Why the A-10 Warthog Refuses To Retire
The A-10 Warthog: Loved by pilots and loved even more by troops on the ground. It’s kinda slow, bulletproof, and very deadly. Let’s keep it. Paying Attention: America goes to war on a regular basis and goes to irregular wars and confrontational situations constantly. Sometimes we go because we are asked to, sometimes we …
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Gloria Steinem on dreaming
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning..”
The Paddle Economy 2015: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part I
Paying Attention: The cars listed and noted below are from the Pinnacle Portfolio, a collection of twenty-five (25) extremely desirable modern collector’s cars which will be auctioned off at Pebble Beach by RM Auctions/Sotheby’s. This is only a sampling. Complete information is available at the RM Auctions/Sotheby’s Site. You are encouraged to view the entire collection by …
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The Paddle Economy 2015: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part IV
Paying Attention: Bonham’s stages an auction each year in conjunction with the very exclusive Motorsports gathering at The Quail. Tickets for the The Quail are very hard to come by (there is a waiting list and attendance is capped) but no ticket is required to to preview The Bonham’s Auction at The Quail (which …
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Einstein on Taxes
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax….”
COMT I (Christmas One More Time)
The Hunt For New (Christmas)Music: For over a decade, I’ve been putting together a Christmas playlist. The goal is simple: Introduce friends to new Christmas music they probably haven’t heard, or old Christmas music performed in a new version by a new artist. In the spirit of Christmas, it’s time to share these lists, all of …
COMT I Liner Notes
The stories behind great songs can be just as interesting as the songs themselves. Here are some notes on each of the songs included in the COMT I playlist. First, a short discourse on why Christmas and Holiday music seems magical. The easy answer is….it’s traditional. Christmas music comes out of the box once a …
COMT II: Listen To The Season
The Hunt for New (Christmas)Music: The second of our traditional rocking -for -the -holidays Christmas Playlists…..Christmas One More Time II. Also, with this list, the practice of adding songs that have a spiritual component–but are not necessarily traditional Christmas songs–begins. You can enjoy the entire playlist through the courtesy of our friends at Spotify via Spotify’s …