Thoughts

2026

  • 2026-06-03 – Nevada Border, or . . . Border, Nevada?
    Yet another gateway to the west: Border, Nevada. How can a gas station and cheap motel at a border crossing reminiscent of a checkpoint between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan be the high point of a trip across the United States?
  • 2026-05-16 – Marketing and Innovation
    Always more, always better, always stronger, always louder. Progress! Yes, progress with innovation as well as with marketing. Here is an example of both at the same time discovered just a few days ago.
  • 2026-04-25 – Two reasons not to kill your television
    There was a time when some people encouraged you to kill your television. Oh, such innocence. Others would argue (lamely) that "There are many good things on TV." Here are two "good things" from my early childhood and two little bits of Americana fading into the ether.
  • 2026-04-21 – Beware of young architects
    Young architects may have vision. Give them carte blanch and they can create great works of .. architecture. You can also learn other things from them.
  • 2026-03-29 – What I really need is a typewriter; an electric typewriter
    Adolescent desire was the starting point. The path followed has been long.
  • 2026-03-06 – Smooth and creamy paper, a real pen
    Whereby Don moves to the basement, skips the paper and pen, and opens his favorite text editor.