Happy Thanksgiving 2011

by on November 24, 2011 4 Comments
Thanksgiving Toys

Happy Thanksgiving! I posted this on Facebook earlier today and figured it pretty much summed things up, so why not just repeat it here... What am I thankful for? More than I can list here... I have an amazing wife, two wonderful children, and family and friends that I dearly love who love me back unconditionally. I work with a group of the best real estate agents on the planet. … [Read more...]

What I learned from National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

by on November 23, 2011 15 Comments
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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 … [Read more...]

They say once you go Mac you never go back…

by on October 24, 2011 36 Comments
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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, … [Read more...]

From the 2006 Archives: Goodbye to you, my trusted friend…

by on July 25, 2011 4 Comments
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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 … [Read more...]

What You Can Learn from Lady Gaga

by on July 20, 2011 22 Comments
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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, … [Read more...]

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