“God put us on earth to help each other.” Tony Snow dies at 53.

I love good people. Not just people who are superb at what they do, but people who inspire others to excellence as well. People who, through articulation and example, can better illustrate life’s purpose in, say, twenty seven short video minutes than Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Hegel managed in serial tomes.
If you have time, […]

Dr. Kempe, I Presume

 
It’s easy now to look back at last Saturday and forget the car troubles ninety miles south and two hours shy of the graduation ceremony, or the steaming tall Pike Place Roast delivered to my lap two minutes before walking in the door.  All that matters is, after enormous dedication and hard work, Baby Kelly […]

In praise of Terradatum

A good company is defined by three things, each of which reinforces the others: the quality of the product or service provided; the quality of people it employs; and how well and quickly it follows through on fixing problems. Standard seems to be that the rep or support person - or even president - tells […]

Paul Potts: Horatio Alger in the Twenty-First Century

I’m a sucker for excellence, so that’s the theme of this Saturday morning diversion.
I caught the tail end of an interview on FOX news with an opera singer who’d apparently won the Britain’s Got Talent competition, the precursor to American Idol. I love opera, couldn’t imagine its appearance on AI, and the interview was […]