Those that follow along either here, on Twitter or Facebook know I took up the (at times asinine) National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. 23 days into this madness, here is what the NaNoWriMo web site says about my little endeavor... Well howdy doody, we just crossed the 50,000 word mark! Let there be dancing in the streets, a celebration, maybe even some sleep. No more staying up until odd hours of the night, pounding … [Read more...]
They say once you go Mac you never go back…
Back in 1983 I was working as a process engineering technician in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and my cube mate, a brilliant engineer named Charlie Hong, brought in an Apple IIe. The thing was huge, with a monochrome monitor -- green I think, maybe it was amber. I don't recall exactly, after all,that was 28 years ago... I do remember that it had a 1.02 MHz processor. That's megahertz, not gigahertz, and had not one but two 5.25 inch floppy drives. I believe RAM was the standard for … [Read more...]
From the 2006 Archives: Goodbye to you, my trusted friend…
This article was originally published on December 28, 2006. While I'm off at a conference I thought I'd share a few of my old favorites. As hard as it is to fathom, this post actually generated a buyer client when a fellow Pepsi Vanilla lover made the now infamous call that began with, "Dude, I read your post about Vanilla Pepsi..." The rest, as they say, is history. And yes, the Pepsi Vanilla website linked in the article is still online, some 4.5 years after Pepsi stopped producing this … [Read more...]
What You Can Learn from Lady Gaga
Flamboyant, nutcase, confident, weird, showman, public relations genius, public relations idiot, performer, train wreck. I suspect all those words have been used to describe Lady Gaga at one point or another. Someone reading this has to be thinking, “Lady Gaga? Really. You're about to write a post about Lady Freaking Gaga? And tie that into life and real estate? This I have to see”¦” OK, OK. Listen, anyone that knows me just a tiny little bit has to realize that I am not exactly the type of … [Read more...]
Ode to My Office Manager
My lovely wife, who also happens to be my best friend and business partner, has been vacationing with our daughter for the last week in upstate New York. I am flipping crazy about the woman, and I miss her terribly (and my daughter too of course). As many readers know, Francy is also the Office Manager for our real estate brokerage. Yes, yours truly has been running the entire operation alone for the last week. We're still solvent. I don't *think* I've done anything that will get us sued. None … [Read more...]
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