My magnificent mile experience

“ How did you enjoy your first event?”, my wife asked as we climbed into the car and headed home.  As I responded with my standard “It was pretty good” , I thought about the experience and decided it was definitely better than pretty good.
I had been aware of the Magnificent Mile , now in its fourth year,  not [...]

Wrong approach

It seems Bill Ford is the latest auto exec to come out in favor of hiking the price of gas  by up to $2 gallon through a federal or state gas tax to create impetus to buy newer, and theoretically more fuel efficient cars.
This is a hot button for me, as it seems so typical of our [...]

454 LS6 in an ‘89 C4 Corvette

In my last post I mentioned some maintenance work on my daily driver, and so I thought I’d share a bit on a project I hope to complete once the new workshop is finished – my other Corvette.    I picked up this ‘89 in 1997 refreshed the Z51 suspension with new springs, shocks and urethane [...]

Back from the coast

It took the better part of two hours on the road Friday afternoon for my thoughts to finally leave work and shift to the road and the weekend ahead of us.  Late in the afternoon, we arrived at the Rose Hill Inn bed and breakfast in Wilmington.
The home had been built in the late 1800’s [...]

Upcoming Valentines weekend

Half day at work today and then Leslie and I are heading off to a bed and breakfast for the weekend.   Time away from the computer and the online world which has begun to claim perhaps too central a spot in my life these past weeks.   I need to regain some priority and perspective.
Without my [...]

Sign of the times

In a sign of the times, TechCrunch provides us this handy layoff tracker  so we can keep tabs on things.  
It’s all interdependent – the unwinding of the corporate workforce that parallels the stock market and the economy.  The retrenchment, and struggle to find the bottom, the point at which the majority  believe that tomorrow will be [...]

The talk economy

In today’s global economy the world’s reality seems a parallel of the stock market where reality follows the news.   It’s becoming self fulfilling.    In theory, investments are made based in part on an entity’s present worth, state of operations, and future prospects.    I contend that much of the wall street action, and resulting behavior in [...]

Return to workshop construction

With favorable weather and a some greatly appreciated help from friends, slow progress on my workshop resumed.  Since my last updates on the steel frame, I completed the non-glamorous activity of trimming the outside edges of the slab square, and screwing an angle iron flange around the base, and affixing a complimentary angle on the [...]

Lithium – walking the talk in social media

For the last several years,  social media has been the buzz and companies are flocking to run something social for the sake of doing it.   These companies are just “bolting on” various applications to their business, whether they launch a blog,  create a viral video,  or put up a splashy co-creation site to choose the [...]

Dilbert goes social

Maybe I’ve been under a rock or just overworked, but I hadn’t clicked over to Dilbert in many months – I know, it’s a sad thing to have to admit.   Really it is.    Scott Adams is a beacon of guidance and insight for those whole toil away in cubeland.  
Upon visiting the site today, I find it has [...]