I often work on peoples computers. I do it for fun. I do it to make connections with people.  I do it because there is a need.  I lost count long ago of how many friends I have made with this philosophy.  Most of the time I get paid in the end by having improved my friendships or making connections that lead to other paying jobs.  I don’t look at it as work. I look at it as a way to share with folks and get to know...

    I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with a very interesting fellow today.  I won’t put his name out there because folks deserve theirprivacy.  I was introduced to this guy through an old friend originally for a business discussion.  I have had hundreds of these meetings and like sales, many don’t pan out and become reality.  I am always prepared for anything but I was not prepared for what I encountered.    ...

    I really relish being a child of the 80′s. I love the music, the clothes, the memes and all the various sundry things in between.  In 1982 a well known author named Joan D. Vinge, wife of Verner Vinge published a book called Psion. It tells the tale of a one time homeless, orphaned, half-human, half-alien teenager named Cat. Cat has telepathic abilities that lead him into the dark world of corporate security and out of the...

    Watching movies is a hobby of mine. I mean, I don’t just watch them I learn all there is to know about them.  I like to know where the original story came from.  Who’s idea it was.  I like to research why the actors chose to be involved, what the director was thinking and so on and so on.  I live a breath movies.  I started this list as a little research project to see how many of my favorite Sci-fi movies were made...

     Today I want to rant a bit about the ridiculousness that retail shopping has become.  I like to shop.  Hell, who doesn’t?  Watching TV, news and reading the ads in newspapers I often wonder how utterly stupid advertisers and retail marketers think we as consumers are.  I mean they keep coming up with more and more outrageous ploys to get us to buy their stuff, and they must be some nuts that actually believe the rhetoric...

    It’s that time of year again.  That time of year when the Christians complain about the secular war on “their” holiday.  My kids and I have to endure the dirty looks, snide comments and general inconsiderate natures of most Christians who make the usual crude assumption that everyone in this country believes the way they do.  From a factual standpoint they don’t care or even want to know that much of what people associate...