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 …
Author: Robert Coppedge
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 …
No Comment?
When I first installed Word Press one of the first things I did was turn off commenting. I have run website that allowed commenting before and the spam and offensive bile that would inevitably at some point appear and require …
Day Care Decisions
Yet another article on Slate today that I wanted to share. It’s about the latest science on kids and day care and after reading it I felt it necessary to brag about our decisions regarding childcare. When we had our …
Political Games
Another thing I love about Slate (there are so many!) are their interactive tools they build to illustrate a point. The latest is a gerrymandering game that partially explains why congress is so broken, Republican’s still rule the house despite …