Like many of you, over the years we keep adding boxes to our audio/video system. It used to be an antenna to get TV and the sound came out of the speakers. Then came cable. After a while, a video game. A VCR (remember those?). Soon a DVD player. Maybe a separate DVR like TiVO. Maybe a Sling box. Roku? A surround audio system for sure.
In any event, along with the boxes came an awful lot of wiring. Cables of all types – A/V, component video, digital audio., HDMI – we’ve got them all. And frankly, they’re a mess. So this morning, we did something about it and that’s todays thought. Continue reading
Category Archives: Helpful Hints
Rewiring
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Egg On Their Faces
Some things just make you shake your head and today’s USA Today brought along another one of them. It’s almost as if the aftermath of the BP spill never happened or, at best, as if some folks are either not paying attention or just not getting what they’re seeing and hearing. I know it’s not Friday but this is food-related, sort of. It’s really about business and responsibility in my mind but I’ll let you be the judge. Continue reading
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Learning Not To Cook
It’s Friday and the topic, of course, is food-related. I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day and he mentioned that his business used to remind him of a cook and a couple of helpers but now it’s a big kitchen and the cook has become a chef. As we kept talking, it was obvious to me that the guy had NOT become a chef – he was still a cook and that’s the business point I want to make today.
I hear lots of folks complain about chefs (most of them celebrities now) who have six or ten or more restaurants. “How can they run the kitchen from 1,000 miles away?” is the common question. But they can because they’ve learned not to cook and that’s what my friend’s boss needs to understand. Continue reading
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