Category: From the Mind of Brian

  • DST = Dumb Senate Time?

    What is the point of daylight saving time anyway? Saving power? Helping farmers? No, I think this addresses a deeper philosophical point … trying to control the world around us.

  • One less podcast to download

    Well frak, it sounds like Penn Jillette‘s radio show is going off the air. That means the podcast of the show will also be going away. “Penn and CBS would have been very happy for the show to continue had the one hour format proven to have been easier to program in to more markets.”…

  • The space between what could be and what is not

    Let’s just cut the chase: I was an asshole at work Tuesday. It really doesn’t matter what started it or what pre-existing conditions contributed to my frustration … I overreacted.

  • Shuffle

    Life has been on shuffle since I got back from Germany … not “totally random with no user interface” as in the iPod Shuffle context, but the “moving things around & changing” context. Work: Looks like I will go back into technical marketing from engineering management. This is a mutual decision, and was helped by…

  • Germany: Pictures

    Back in country, glad to be home … but Suzan and I had a great time. I did have to work most of the time, but I did find occasion to see Nuremberg with my spouse. I will post stories soon. My pictures are posted here (Flickr). Enjoy.

  • The Vegetarian Sausage Complex

    In our next installment of “Brian Talks Business”, our compares the production of “cruelty-free food products” to questionable management in the business world.