One of my favorite quotes, author unknown, is: "the best way to predict the future is to create it." And now I'm living proof of the truthiness of this quote (how'd you like that, going back to the word of the year for 2005 - truthiness!) Anyway, so here's the way it happened. A little … Continue reading I Can Predict the Future! (and I’ve Got Proof)
It is one of the more well-known lines from Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "government of the people, by the people, for the people, ..." Those words, well at least some of them. came rushing back to me as I looked through this week's Real Estate section of the Wall Street Journal. fittingly known as The Mansion. … Continue reading The WSJ Mansion Section May Be of the People, But It’s Not For the People
This is the 43rd in a collection of newspaper ads written by Harry Gray, then CEO of United Technologies, that appeared in the Wall Street Journal from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Here is the text from that ad. If you sometimes get discouraged, consider this fellow: He dropped out of grade school. … Continue reading This Will Make You Feel Better
Borden's Blather 