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 …
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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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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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The Paddle Economy 2015: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part III
Paying Attention: The Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach Auctions are always a great source of very carefully curated collector cars. Gooding & Co. stages their auctions on Saturday and Sunday, and so potential buyers have plenty of time to view the offerings. The schedule and other key information for their 2015 Pebble Beach program is listed …
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The Paddle Economy 2015: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part II
Paying Attention: It’s that time of the year again: Pebble Beach Concours Week. To the automobile enthusiast, this is the best week of the year (or at least one of the best) and for collector’s the world over, it’s the week in which pricing trends and new highs are set for the collectibles that go …
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Trailer: Man From Uncle 2
The Art of the Movie Trailer. The Man From U.N.C.L.E., a movie remake/update of the very popular 1960s TV series, didn’t spend as much time in the movie theaters as the producers had hoped. Why is a bit of a mystery. The film was directed by Guy Richie (Madonna’s ex and one of the best …
Annals of IP: Egyptian Music meets Hip Hop
Music: The production of music today often involves the process of sampling, a technique for copying a portion of a song (a chorus, a beat, a bridge) and blending that “sample” into a new piece of music. It’s not a new technique, but it’s far more widely used now than ever before and the reach for …
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Season's Greetings: A Bill Murray Christmas Special Is Coming
Paying Attention: Netflix changes the expectations, again, with a new Christmas special starring Bill Murray. One more reason to like the Holidays (and Bill Murray).