Barney Fife On The Job
This past friday the kids had an early dismissal, my first ever. Being inexperienced as a SAHD I didn’t have any thing planned for the kids, When I was a kid an early dismissal in itself was enough of a …
Year: 2013
innovation.gov
As a business consultant I am often charged with making my client’s company more “innovative”. Every CEO wants to be the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Jeff Bezos, for obvious reasons. You’ll get no argument out of me that …
Information on Ethics
A recent article in the Pacific Standard magazine makes the case that software engineers need a dose of ethics when it comes to designing their applications. Its easy to insist that everyone perform ethically in their endeavors but the reality …
Capital-less Capitalism
Capital – noun – wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing. As a business and IT consultant …
Happy Exceptional Birthday
Our youngest of three children was born four year ago today. She was an exceptional child starting at birth for two reasons. For one thing, she was exceptionally long for an infant which has translated into being exceptionally tall when …
Trolling Trending SAHDs
trend – noun – a general direction in which something is developing or changing. A recent article in The Atlantic trolls the recent trend pieces about the rise of SAHDs. The author first points out that SAHDs are still a …
Back to School – WOO HOO!!
Recently my wife showed me this picture someone sent her of a joyous SAHM on the first day of school. After spending the end of the summer trapped in the house with all three children by the Texas heat I …
Armed and Dangerous
Because of the school shootings there has been an idea promoted by the NRA of having teachers or school administrators carry firearms. This is why its a dumb idea. The senator was participating in an exercise with rubber bullets and …
Microsoft’s Enterprise Advantage
A lot has already been written about the coming retirement of Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft. The reporting has mostly attributed the decline of Microsoft to be all Ballmer’s fault, except when it’s everyone’s fault, and how far Microsoft …
Meet the Father
This morning was meet the teacher and my son, my second child, is starting Kindergarten. We’ve been down this road as a family before but I was barely tuned in the first time two years ago when my daughter started …