Posted in Business, Entertainment on Jun 6th, 2011
One of new favorite shows is Shark Tank on ABC. On Shark Tank, entrepreneurs pitch their business or invention to a group of successful businessmen, the sharks. Mark Cuban is often on the panel of investors. If the investors like the business an equity offer is negotiated and the entrepreneur can accept or reject the [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Family, Miscellaneous on Apr 14th, 2011
Few things in life work as advertised. My kids are learning that lesson now as everything looks great on the commercials, but performed less than satisfactory once they play with it and they quickly become bored with it. As a kid, I learned that lesson by buying things advertised on comic books which never met [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Nov 5th, 2010
Ever wonder how hard it would be to change your identity and start over somewhere else? Sure you have seen it done in the movies but can it be done in real life? This young Chinese man tried to do disguise himself and sneak into Canada from Hong Kong. You can read the story here. [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Jul 7th, 2010
Posted in Entertainment on Mar 24th, 2009
If you drive or walk around a major city you will notice a lot of billboard advertising. There is so much advertisement that after awhile we kind of tune it out and don’t pay much attention. That is bad news for the advertisers who paid big money to get their message out there only to [...]
Posted in Entertainment, sports on Mar 7th, 2009
In a few weeks March Madness will be upon us with the start of the NCAA basketball tournament. For many years I have participated in a small tournament pool. It is only about 5-6 people and the stakes are small. Its just for fun and bragging rights. It also makes watching the games a lot [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Dec 23rd, 2008
The award for the World’s Greatest Business Mind was just announced. Click here to see who won.
Posted in Entertainment on Dec 22nd, 2008
I finally reached the milestone of 100 friends on Facebook. That is probably not a big deal to many of you who reached 100 FB friends the same week you joined FB. However I have been on FB for awhile and new friends have been far and few in between. With 100 friends in sight [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Nov 8th, 2008
Al is……posting on his blog. If you have ever spent anytime on Facebook you are familiar with such exciting updates on the lives of your friends and acquaintances. In the past I have found Facebook mildly amusing but now have been officially hooked on Facebook. Not hooked like I am an active participant but more [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Nov 6th, 2008
Early in the 2nd quarter of the Raiders game last Sunday I had enough. I have seen my share of pitiful Raiders performances in my time but this game reached a all time low. It was ugly and getting uglier by the minute. I was actually glad that the game was sold out so I [...]
