As the weekend wound down, we thought grilling some food would be a nice way to end the day. It was a great afternoon – the sun was out, hot but not too steamy – so off we went to the store to get provisions. A few hours later, it was time to start the meal and that’s when I checked the radar as I always do when getting ready to fire up the grill. Not good. Although the sun was shining, in the 20 minutes it would take the coals to get hot , the sunshine was going to turn liquid. We moved the cooking indoors. Continue reading
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Les Paul
I’d be remiss if I didn’t write a few thoughts about the passing of Les Paul last week. As someone who has been playing the guitar since he was 11, and a good many of those years playing on a Gibson ES-335, a derivative of the original Les Paul, my life was touched by Les and his work. The most interesting thing about him, however, is how the technology he invented was always a means to an end – making great music. Continue reading
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Just The Facts, Ma’am
If you’ve spent any time around ad agencies and/or media sales people, inevitably the subject of process automation comes up. Many agencies are living in fear of Google on a lot of levels, in part because the big guys don’t do search and search’s high accountability calls a lot of other media decisions into question. One other factor is the automation of the whole buying and selling process and that’s today’s topic. Continue reading
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