There’s nothing like waiting at a stop light and getting hit from behind… That was my “interesting” experience in downtown Springfield yesterday. I got out of my car and immediately called the police to cite the driver (I found
Category: Business
Email Spam… Now Caller ID Spoofing
Just about everyone is familiar with email spam… Well, it appears the world now has Caller ID Spoofing. This is a technique used by unscrupulous people to make phone calls that display a different phone number (and identity) on the Caller ID of
Workplace Humor
Best excuses if you get caught sleeping at your office desk: 1. “It’s okay: I’m still billing the client.” 2. “They told me at the blood bank this might happen.” 3. “Whew! I must a left the top off the
SAE/Boeing Aerospace Conference
I was in Seattle most of this week at an SAE/Boeing aerospace conference… A usual, Seattle was rainy and cold… I gave a 30-minute presentation on sharing technical data in the supply chain… The photo is a shot from my
A View on Capitalism from 1948
Harding College put this out this mini-movie in 1948. It explains capitalism in a simple enough form so that even an elementary school child can understand it. I suggest you show it to any young’uns that may be around as you
Interesting Questions to Ponder
From StrangeCosmos: 1. Is sexual harassment at work a problem for the self-employed? 2. What happens if you go on a survival course and you don’t pass? 3. Whatever happened to preparations A through G? 4. Where do they get
The Vaccines are Out to Get Us
From Drybones
A Great Story of Entrepreneurship
A great story on CNBC about an entire nation creating wealth by supporting research and development…
Are We Entering a Period of Economic Malaise?
I’m typically not a fan of Peggy Noonan, but I’ll have to admit she really had a humdinger of an editorial in a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal. She exclaims that “We’re Governed by Callous Children”: The biggest
Funny Quotes about Fools
1) “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool-proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of fools.” 2) “You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough