I avoid cocktail parties. While I occasionally enjoy a nice glass of wine over a quiet dinner with my wife Patti, and perhaps some friends, I’m not a social drinker. My impression is that cocktail parties tend to bring out the worst in people when they’ve had one too many. At one such occasion an […]
The other day I wore a Jerry Garcia tie while I ate Cherry Garcia ice cream. Jerry Garcia, for those of you who don’t know, was a former member of a popular 1960’s era band, The Grateful Dead. He was a colorful artistic man whose paintings became popular. Now deceased, his estate continues to bring […]
Do you remember when Texas Instruments first introduced hand held digital calculators? The calculators could only perform the most basic functions; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Yet in the early 1970s to purchase one set you back over $100. Today, for the same inflation adjusted dollars you can instead buy a desktop computer with more […]
Each profession has its own language. Computer geeks know what a “binary digit” is, while us layman over the age of forty have no clue. When my doctor was concerned about my “lipo-profile” I told him that I knew my nose was longish, but what did that have to do with anything?
Certainly there’s no […]