We jumped into a Mercedes taxi in Santiago, Chile, this afternoon and in the back seat flap we found a convenient NY Times news digest waiting for us. Among the day’s news was an item about the “FedEX Economy, evidence that the speed with which American business responds to different […]

From Tina Brown’s recent Washington Post column on the lack of juicy memoirs being written by former and current Bush staffers. “And maybe a Bush memoir will give us a road map at least to some of the mysterious gaps and silences of the past five years. What was really […]

Kent gets ready for lobster in Martha’s Vineyard last summer. 

Our new sign on the Interstate Highway 91 North.  Billboard advertising has always been exciting to me. I believe there is no better way to publicize a business than a nice-looking sign on a busy highway. I went out with the signmakers today and counted the cars whizzing past as […]

So I’m driving to work this morning, and this dick pulls out in front of me… 

Sometimes you get jokes by email. Eric Jayne sent me a few… …I’ve sure gotten old. I’ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I’m half blind, can’t hearanything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that makeme dizzy, winded, and subject […]

This month’s Wired brought a trove of interesting profiles, including a piece by Steven Levy about Tim O’Reilly, who became famous in computer circles by founding a company that publishes manuals and books about software. O’Reilly, who lives in Sebastopol, CA, is big on participation, and spots trends that lie […]

Carl Hoffman wrote a profile of Don Kirlin in this month’s issue of Wired. The opening photo showed Kirlin’s hangar, stocked with fighter jets from the former Soviet Union and Romania. “Kirlin’s collection began as a rich man’s game to buy the baddest toys money can buy. Then he realized […]