Category: Commentary
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Trolling Considered Harmful (and Stupid)
I posted this on LinkedIn, to point out that certain people seem to think that any hand gesture is some kind of crypto Nazi sign of solidarity, which makes no sense. A fellow LinkedIn member came across it and reposted it to mock my take, and it has attracted over 16,000 views and 67 comments…
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Do You Expect Me to Fly? No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to DEI.
When we were confronted with 2 plane crashes near airports in the last week, The Media That Be (TMTB) howled that Trump was going to get us all killed because there is a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers. Trump in his usual attack, then counter-attack mode blamed DEI policies for lowering the standards, recruiting obviously…
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Jesus Was a Refugee
Upstart Catholic convert J. D. Vance aroused the righteous indignation of a prominent Jesuit priest by the Vice President’s claims that deporting immigrants was sanctioned by their shared religion. The priest responded by noting that Jesus was once a refugee in Egypt, and so all Christians should treat immigrants with dignity. For those unfamiliar with…
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The Bottom Line is Wrong
In 1982 when I first started a realistic career as a software engineer to replace my manual labor/freelance writing aspirations with an actual money making venture, I bought a book on how to succeed in business. The very first page said to pick your end goal first and then start your career on the first…
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Football, Wat Dat?
In my youth, I was a big sports fan. I used to watch the weekly TV baseball game at 10am on Saturdays. Remember those? (Of course you don’t, you’re not a Cro-magnon man like me). Heck, you might have actually been born in this century.) I even used to know almost all the MLB players.…
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Titles of Nobility
The recent election has made me reflect on a time in my life when I was awakened to a truth about myself that I had never realized. Great Britain annoys me. Now most of my life I admired the British. They were the land of Shakespeare, Milton, Tolkein, the land of common law, the ones…
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Things That Make Me Go Hmmm
Now that we have not just year and a half election campaign seasons but also month long voting, I’m trying to ignore politics as much as I find possible. The only advantage is that as an old, single guy, it makes my daily trip to the mailbox less futile because every day has at least…
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We Can(‘t) Be Heroes
My new subscription to Paramount+ is allowing me to see Showtime documentaries that I never knew existed, and I watched two in the last two weeks about groundbreaking Black entertainers. The first was about Bill Cosby, and the second was about Michael Jackson and the ongoing legacy of his Thriller album. I was moved by…
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Haters Gonna’ Hate
Last night I took the plunge and rented the video of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and it is rather amazing. Normally I wouldn’t spend $20 to rent an online video, but I certainly wasn’t about to pay $450 to get a bad seat in a large stadium for one of her concerts, surrounded by the…
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Is Your Customer Service Feedback a Lie? And How Does That Impact our Brave New AI World?
Feedback is the life blood of any business. Once you grow your business beyond constantly having personal interactions with your customers, you need some mechanism to tell you how the service or product you provide is meeting or not meeting your customers’ satisfaction. As the owner you eventually get the answer of course when people…
Musings of a Restless Mind 