I promise you have never had turtle like this. — The daze of my youth continue… Years ago while doing utility construction in Ottawa, Illinois, the guys working for me scooped up a snapper using 3 shovels and tossed it into the tool box on the side of our truck with plans to cook it for dinner that night. When…

Will Medium survive the coming tech crash? How can Medium’s eventual failure be prevented? — I’ll get back to the screen grab above further along in the article. Now let’s cut to the chase. While the “experts” are arguing about whether we are about to experience another Dot-com bubble or not, they all agree that yet another tech crash is happening already. Previously I posted…

Johnny Cash — Excerpted from The History of Wackemall. 1966, Music legend Johnny Cash was at the low point of his career, had recently divorced his first wife, Vivian Liberto, and was addicted to drugs and alcohol. Many thought him to be washed up at 34. He had recently been sued by the…

History is made today though we may not know it yet. We may not know the players or what it was they bet. It may be that we never know, it’s never in a book. But history is made today if you just know where to look. A hero will…

“I remember working for trucking companies who aggressively sought acquisitions while reducing employee benefits, and laying off workers all at the same time. All of them eventually declared bankruptcy, closed their doors, and reopened under a new name. Now Medium seems to be doing the same.” — Earlier today I left the following comment on this post announcing layoffs by Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine,

“Captain Stardust,” engineer Dotty Montgomery shouts over the com system, “We’ve been boarded!” — Continued from The Final Frontier, The adventurers of the USS Starship, Donald Trump. The Setup In our last episode, Captain Twiggy Stardust and her crew aboard the USS Starship, Donald Trump narrowly escaped being dropped due to insufficient ratings. “Damn the network,” Captain Stardust complained. “If they want ratings I’ll give them…

“Have you existed a part of a species that is hated by every person in the world and thought to yourself, I should become one of them and take up their struggle.” — Have you ever taken the time to step out of your own misery and look at how the rest of the world lives, their desires, their dreams, their misery? Have you considered the possibility, the notion that you might be able to become them for a time, perhaps for a…