This post isn’t going to make a few of you out there very happy. But if it doesn’t, hopefully it’s because you have a guilty conscience and are going to do better in the future. You see, today’s topic is making stuff up and while I’m a big fan of fiction, I don’t think it has a place when it’s labeled as fact. Continue reading
Tag Archives: life
Ralph Moneybags
I was pleasantly surprised last evening to receive an email from a old friend. Attached to it was a photograph which you see off to the right.

Thanks Eric!
No, it’s not the 4 Stooges although that would have been an appropriate moniker at the time. It’s the cast and crew of a film shot in the late 60’s called “The Treasure of Ralph Moneybags” and seeing this shot made me think about how in many ways the digital world we’re in has helped and hurt what is now getting to be two generations of kids.
Filed under digital media, Growing up
Matching Meta Data

- Image by Getty Images via Daylife
We all tend to put things into little niches. It’s probably the only way our minds can keep track of all that is going on around us, and given that all THAT STUFF seems to be multiplying each day, the ability to categorize and file away meta data about people, companies, and other things is, in my opinion, key to being a highly-functional person today. Naturally, I thought about this last night while watching the Grammy awards. Continue reading
Filed under Reality checks, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On


