2026-09-18 – Down the Rabbit Hole
Prompted by articles from different sources and addressing somewhat different subjects, a strange mental picture emerges compelling me to take fingers to keyboard: Are we creating a creature that is capable of eating its own tail? Or, has it always been that way?
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.