Tag: History
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Impressive Baseball Stats (or Not)
Now that the baseball season is in full swing, allow me to quote a couple of “impressive” achievements from early in 2025. According to Underdog Fantasy’s Justin Havens, Tatis is the seventh player in the Wild Card era to record at least four home runs, six stolen bases, nine RBIs and 13 runs in his…
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Shakespeare in 1923
I’ve mentioned Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 before. The end of this, his second prequel to Yellowstone, just aired (or streamed?), and, by all that is holy, I can’t say enough about it. I could not believe it when I found out this was going to be the last episode of the series. “There’s no way Sheridan…
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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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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…
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Arriving in California
California is the place of constant reinvention. Starting as the sleepy remote adjunct to the nation of Mexico only to be totally transformed into an almost instant American state by the 49ers of The Gold Rush. Then the Jewish American Dreamers who fled the East Coast and Edison’s stranglehold on the film business to found…
Musings of a Restless Mind 