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Back To School

PASADENA, CA - OCTOBER 10:  School buses drive...

This is the time of year when I have to make a mental adjustment to my timings.  If you want to go anywhere around this town early in the morning or in the early afternoon, you need to add 10 minutes for the school buses.  Never fails that when you’re in a hurry you wind up behind one!

My older daughter is a teacher and both my wife and I began our careers that way.  It’s a big responsibility showing other people – young other people – the way to navigate themselves through a particular topic and, hopefully, the world in general.  There’s also something teachers are required to do which is a great thought for those of us out in the business world. Continue reading

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Rewiring

The Nightmare (2)

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

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Grow Up

I’m not sure if you read this article from yesterday’s New York Times. Very enlightening. It speaks of parents who take their kids to college and then stick around, sometimes for days. As someone who has been through this process – twice – I can tell you that it’s awful. Leaving the person you’ve protected since birth hundreds of miles away with strangers is a frightening, difficult event. I still refer to the first time as one of the worst days of my life and the second time was a little easier only because the school is only 90 minutes away (and I can do it in 60 if I don’t mind a couple of tickets). So why should you care? Because it affects you if you hire any young people. Continue reading

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