Archaic patterns: Dress-for-Success, Day Planners, cold calls, hard sells, brick phones, power ties, feathered hair, and the TLA (the department of Three Letter Acronyms): some things should be left to rest in peace. Somehow, the worst of the worst has risen from the marketing grave and infected the natural, organic, and the living. Here’s a …
Dark Patterns – the bottom line of diminishing returns Read More »
Some time ago I wrote a piece about life-long learning called Rust Never Sleeps. Here’s an excerpt: “In the age of information and ready access to seemingly infinite knowledge, it amazes me how many people are unable to get out of their mental comfort zones to expand and strengthen their knowledge, abilities, talents, and creativity. …
I took an unexpected side trip down memory lane in April/May 2016. We were visiting Utah for my oldest son’s college graduation and wedding. Taking my youngest boys to visit with some musician friends (Branden / Rancid and Quinn / The Used) for lunch was a nice reunion. But it got so much better. Punk Rock …
The 2016 Uplift Music Festival has teamed up with the ConVal school district and South Meadow School to be the beneficiaries of this years Uplift charity concert! We will be raising money for the school music program to buy much needed instruments and equipment for the kids. Everyone involved with Uplift knows the importance of …
Charity and Volunteering: 2016 Uplift Music Festival Read More »
Back in October of 2015, I announced that “Old is New” and that Almanac had migrated from our old Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. This was an interim launch and the real launch would come at a later date. Well, after a lot of design and usability meetings, the creation of custom branded fonts, …
The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Making “Old” New Since 1792 Read More »
All through my youth and into adulthood I’ve met many people who were once dedicated to their passions. These are hardworking individuals who, for some reason or another, have relegated their talents to mere hobbies or past-times. Or worse, they’ve let them go and think of them only as childish dreams. More often than not, …
Back in 2007, for my own sanity, I made the decision to leave the world of corporations and start-ups in the Silicon Slopes (Utah’s version of Silicon Valley) and moved to a small town in the woods of New Hampshire to work in the same industry at a much smaller scale. It’s been one of …
Wide-Range Learning In the age of information and ready access to seemingly endless knowledge, it amazes me how many people are unable to get out of their mental comfort zones to expand their learning and strengthen their knowledge, abilities, talents, and creativity. With so many options available, perhaps it’s just too much to filter through …
Rust Never Sleeps: On Becoming a Polymath (wide-range learning) Read More »
I am the host of Thunderous Thursdays, a weekly improvisational music jam, streaming live from New Hampshire every Thursday night. It’s mostly off-the-cuff and completely live and raw. Sometimes you’ll catch our band practicing before the jams and a lot of the time there is dead air while musicians take breaks. Conversations get pretty entertaining …
Almanac, Farmers Almanac, Farmer’s Almanac, Farmers’ Almanac, Old Farmer’s Almanac… One might think it would be easy to tell the difference, but it seems that Google and Bing can’t. Despite the presence of detailed schema and information, Google still mixes things up. Perhaps this has something to do with Freebase being read-only and Wikidata not …
