via MacBook Air, Ultrabook spell doom for optical drive | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News Apple is different. The Apple of Steve Jobs held focus groups in contempt. In essence, Jobs believed consumers don’t know what they want until you give it to them. So, present them with a MacBook Air–as Apple did in January 2008–and consumers will eventually come around. I pretty much found this to be the case in my professional life as well.  Focus groups/committees just are not forward looking. They tend to be stuck in the past.  If you have something forward looking, that … Continue reading People Don’t Know What They Want Until You Give It to Them..

America can carry herself and get along in pretty fair shape, but when she stops and picks up the whole world and puts it on her shoulders she just can’t “get it done.” – March 15, 1933 Will Rogers Is seems like in the last 80 years we could have learned this lesson. Continue reading Carrying the World…

Here is a picture I took in 2009 at the aquarium on Fishers Wharf in San Francisco. Jellyfish just don’t seem real to me. I was totally entranced by this display. Continue reading S.F. Jellyfish

USA TODAY’s notable tech products from 2011 – USATODAY.com. If you seniors out there want to learn about some of the tech innovations in 2011 I would suggest you read this article.  There are about a dozen significant things that surfaced in 2011 on the new technology front. One of the first things I noticed in this article is that the author constantly mentions that some of the new products coming on the market are almost as good as Apple products. That seems to be a common mantra the last few years. I finally realized that if it is “almost … Continue reading Notable Tech Products from 2011

I’m going back a ways for this In The Slow Lane photo but it is from Galena Illinois which was the home of U.S. Grant. It is really a nice place to visit. The town is very well maintained in the late 1800s period and lots of shopping and historic sites. Continue reading Galena Cellars…

  “I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come out right. In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”   – Anne Frank, from The Diary of Anne Frank As pointed out these words were from Anne Frank. Here is some of what Wikipedia says about her Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank  12 June 1929 – early March 1945) … Continue reading Words from Anne Frank…

Source:  Editorial: Too fast to get out of Iraq? No – USATODAY.com. Just nine days after the departure of U.S. forces, Iraq is looking more like its old self — divided, angry and threatened by civil war and dictatorship — than like the self-reliant democracy President Obama described as the troops came home. I don’t understand why the Republicans, and even some Democrats believe that we can change thousands of years of local history in a foreign nation by occupying it with our military might.  I truly think that those who follow this tactic believe that they can turn nations into democracies in this … Continue reading Its Just Iraq Being Iraq….

Call me a naive optimist if you want but now that we are in a new year here are some things I hope, actually dream, to see in 2012: From a personal standpoint My wife and I (and for that matter all seniors) maintain our health in the coming year. That I manage to see more of this great country on our vacations this year. That my actions live up to my words in being my brother’s keeper That I find some good projects this year to keep the boredom down :) That the words of Will Rogers continues to … Continue reading Hopes & Dreams For 2012…