Paying Attention: Two years ago, late at night, restless, I was diving through an LL Bean catalog. I am a big LL Bean fan. I have a duffle bag from them is that is about thirty years old and, of course, I also have their famous “Duck Boots”, along with hiking and climbing …
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Faster faster
“..faster, faster, the lights are turning red…”
Lost Friends: Brad Olsen-Ecker
The Nightshift, our daily international newsite with links to the major English language newspapers throughout the world, follow the Olsen-Ecker post. Please scroll down to access it. Editor’s Note: Three years ago, we lost a great friend and massive creative spirit. Brad Olsen-Ecker left far too soon. But he’s still here …
Bond. James Bond (by the numbers)
mPaying Attention. I was in junior high school, looking for something to read on a beach trip, when I ran across Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale in the paperback section of a Walgreen’s Drug Store in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It seem interesting and so, for about a dollar and change, I bought it. Hours later I …
ee cummings on laughter
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter…”
Life quote
“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”
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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