Protent
Taking CreatorFest out of Dire Straits
I went to CreatorFest Orlando, 2024 to listen, to observe, to understand and to convey that knowledge work is generationally ...
A i 4 N i? No Way to Know How!
According to IBM Artifical intelligence is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities. Having ...
FINALLY, not at all a Finale
32 months ago I was offered a bonus to forgo my final year of corporate servitude and retire. This was ...
Fahrenheit 11/9 gets a left of Centergrade
One of the few things I remember from my forced study of Shakespeare in High School and College, was Comedy ...
Native Wisdom
Native: Belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature Many moons ago, our people showed us, ...
Well, this is SO MUCH BETTER than a movie
About a week ago, the front page of Business declared that Marc Lore was in pursuit of Utopia. Then CNN ...
Democracy RULES! Abide!
In the past I have occasionally heard bits and pieces of partisan grandstanding on the Senate floor. Sometimes I would ...
An Almost Christmas Miracle-Epilogue
Her name was Melinda. Last name unknown. But we talked, laughed, played charades and provided outrageous answers to the pantomimes ...
An Almost Christmas Miracle-Act 3
There was something about driving the Tri-State at night in the winter, that kicked up the adrenalin. I had topped ...
An Almost Christmas Miracle-Act 2
Mom shouted down the hall, "Barry, will you run to Dunkin Donut and get me a coffee?" "Ok. You want ...
An Almost Christmas Miracle-Act 1
50 years ago, I got in my Brother's car as we embarked on what we were still allowed to call ...
The Suite Sound of Soul Purpose
Yesterday my lunch time search for tubular wisdom landed me on 1954's Executive Suite. At the end of the movie ...
Cure-Eosity
The phenomena of serendipity cannot be googled or otherwise consciously obtained. You must allow yourself to fall into the cosmic ...
US-POD – Ben Franklin’s Information Revolution Solution
The official post office was created in 1792 as the Post Office Department (USPOD). It was based on the Constitutional authority empowering Congress ...
A WORKING society cannot be built on UnEmployment
45 years ago,my professor, spoke of an Economic Strategy put forth by JFK (among others) referred to as "Full Employment, ...
The Republic CAN If we all become Independent!
I was speaking with Architect William McDonough almost 20 years ago and he told me he was about to go ...
Since this Economy was forced to CLOSE, Let’s OPEN a Better One.
Economy: 1. the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of ...
The MEANESS of Production
We are all in this...but we are not together, physically, virtually or spiritually ...
Serial SurReality
Serial: a story or play appearing in regular installments on television or radio or in a periodical. Surreal: Unearthly, Dreamlike ...
The Phenomena of Living
Serendipity:the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought I came in from the 100 degree, ...
Sometimes you just have to Laugh
I was going to go to the Microsoft store and pitch my billion dollar idea in their $20,000 contest, but ...
This Bud’s For YOU
In 1979 I relocated my family from the 3rd "once in a life time blizzard" that engulfed Northwest Indiana to ...
No…Know…There IS a God
A few months back went to see Eddie Izzard speaking in Mesa, Arizona. I love this guy! It wasn't really ...
Look what they done to my site!
So upgrading to Wordpress 4.8 was probably not the wisest move on my part. I suppose I could revert, but ...
Hey Jude, Call me…Don
Desperate Times Call for the Saint of Desperate Cases Hear me now oh thou bleak and unbearable world Thou art ...
Face-ing, the facts
I have just completed a 3 month Political experiment on Facebook. During these 3 months I doubled my "Friend" count ...
Re-Considering SomeplacElse
Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the one and only novel I ever wrote. Many have asked me to ...
The Story Rick McCullough wants me to tell
Yesterday as I watched Rick’s family smile, hold back tears, rest, sigh, laugh and cry, Kim asked me if I ...
Thinking OVER a Game
It is very interesting to me that one of the best college basketball games in a very long time is ...
Am I working?
Work: In physics, a force is said to do work when acting on a body there is a displacement of ...
SE at the Movies
Work has begun on the movie version of Considering SomeplacElse...our screenwriter would like some casting suggestions...Any ideas? And, if you ...
An Age of Enlightenment?
When I am feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities of tomorrow, the reality of the day, and the fact that too ...
De Motivation is demotivation
Motivation is literally the desire to do things. It's the difference between waking up before dawn to pound the pavement ...
There is no Benefit to Unemployment
Had a radio interview last week, was asked to talk about unemployment...I didn't really get a chance to share MY ...
An Optimist and a Pessimist walk into a bar…
I was asked to post my optimist joke from Tuesdays' presentation at Changing Hands Book Store. Sometimes you just have to ...
Half a Glass, Half a Glass, Half a Glass on
I just got back from 3 days at the Albuquerque Book Fiesta where I did a "reading" from and promoted ...
No App for this one…we need a real Soulution
I believe it was John Naisbitt back in 1982, forecasting that the combination of technology induced isolation coupled with the ability ...
Queen of Kings
Here’s to Delores King, the quintessential mother bear who, for over 65 years, fiercely defended her 10, YES TEN, offspring ...
Whirred by any other name
I'll admit it. Shakespeare makes my head spin. To read it is to ache in head as the hammers of ...
SOPA PIPA Anyone?
Out here in the Southwest desert we have a puffed pastry called Sopapilla. Per our friends at Wikipedia (the only ...
lEARNing about Fire
Last week my wife's new Kindle Fire arrived. We call her "Easy Reader" because words on a page are more ...
Are Better Jobs Coming?
We just got new mobile phones. I still call them mobile phones because to me "Cell" phone conjures up images of Jimmy ...
Event horizons
Two weeks ago my granddaughter completely forgot about her Karate Banquet. So did her mother. 24 hours later tears were ...
The Absolute OMeGa, Man
When I started this blog back in 2007 it was, I thought, just a good way to promote my book. ...
McLuhan You In
In ancient times there was a revolutionary television show called Laugh In. Unlike many of the variety shows of the era, ...
About Facing Society
"An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes." I guess there ...
InSpiraling
A few weeks back I had the privilege of contributing to the Get Inspired project. A quite worthwhile and very ambitious project to ...
Cloudy with a Chance of Sane
It has been a good 20 years since I taught Information Systems at the local community college. With the help of ...
Landing in a Winter Wonder Walk
Perhaps it is the trifecta of Birthday, Christmas and New Years finishing, for the 58th time, 1-2-3 in this nine day stretch. Perhaps it ...
DeCrypting Directions
Every month or so I have to change my password on my day job Computer. I use phrases instead of ...
Response Time
In the early 80s there was much talk about the time it takes for your computer to respond to a ...
Aspirationale
"To long, aim, or seek ambitiously the fundamental reasons" Most of my thoughtful life has been spent on this quest ...
Mystical Coincidence? Who Cares, 70% royalties from Amazon!!!
On Saturday I had the privilege of conducting a workshop for the Arizona Authors Association in the majestic surroundings of Sedona, AZ ...
Returning? from the Radical Sabbatical
Using the mathematical rather than the political definition of radical, we discover that my "extended period of leave from one's customary work" appears to ...
Protent chill?
Last week my eyes opened with the first inspirational moment I have had in the last 4 or 5 months. I immedialety ...
Waiting for Good Mo
To paraphrase Napoleon, "There are ONLY two things that motivate, fear and interest... the fearful seek mere survival, the interested ...
Our Griffin’s Story
Just under 3 years ago while traveling at 70mph across the California desert, word came to us that our sixth ...
iThink therefore iPad?
There was a WHOLE LOT of anticipatory hype surrounding Apple's new iPad and though Steve did his Jobs last week, ...
Micro Soft Motivation?
Admittedly my Authorian adventures have been on hiatus for these last few months. So much so,it appeared I was destined to ...
New Year, Re:Solutions
I like to invoke Socrates at the beginning of all my presentations, regardless of content. With my younger audeinces, very few ...
Tis the Reason
You know this monthly episode thing is just not working out. While it's true, it has given me the time ...
FUNny, how this works!
I have long been an advocate of design that makes the right thing the easiest thing to do. This has ...
Someware, my love?
My favorite Bucky Fuller quote is "when you are doing what Nature intended for you to do, Nature provides". I ...
When you say aw-fuhn…
In 1879 Mister Gilbert and Mister Sullivan created this dialog, General. Stop! I think I see where we are getting ...
Surveying: the Value
The latest digital trend seems to be the act of "formallly examining of the particulars of something in order to ...
Audios Amigos
I heard a lot about Woodstock turning 40 this past week. Three things in particular stand out: 1. It is ...
Colonel Bogey’s Stuff of Dreams
I have recently been inundated with news and digital communicaes from various sources indicating that that there is too much ...
Where is the Creativity Store?
I know. I know. It has been almost a month since last I blogged. Months are such a flaky way ...
I see your success and double my failure rate
"No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy"...the disaster of mythic proportion known as Elizabethtown. "If at ...
RE:tooling
As I approach my 100th episode, (this is 92) I have been reflecting on the craft. The Pitchfest re-affirmed what I ...
It’s not all Blah, Blah in La La
Take 100+ Hollywood Production Types put them in a big room just down the road from Burbank Airport. The day before this, ...
What are they Smokin?
I received and email from WhiteSmoke software today. I get a daily mailing from them containing tips, tricks and specials. For some ...
Challenging Assumptions
In my email today is a message from the Buckminster Fuller institute announcing the winner of their 2009 Design Science Challenge ...
Original Copies?
In my closet is a large plastic container of "retired" T-shirts. You see I have a sentimental attachment to the sentiments expressed ...
Pitching WOO HOO to Who’s Who
Pitch is defined as "to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position" but then it ...
Considering Mutiny on the Charmin
On Saturday morning, I awoke to a plumbing incident and an apparently Spainish film with English subtitles. I chose the ...
After the Swine Flu
When I was about 8 or 9 my best friend was a very asthmatic, non-conformist individual named Kenneth. Kenneth knew ...
Postings from the Ends of the Earth? Not if I can Help It!
Long, loooong before there was an Ashton Kutcher or a CNN to tweat at us, the U.S. Post Office Department ...
Powerless is more?
Last night I was making the final changes on a software module needed at my day job from the comfort ...
Just takin what I’m given
So on my infamous list of things to do are a whole host of exploratory "breakout" projects. Everything from another ...
Oh, Oh, Oh, Listen to the Musing
The noun muse is defined first as "any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or ...
The News goes the way of the Olds
In this, ever more digital, world we are about to experience, yet another, paradigm shift; the disappearance of the daily newspaper. There ...
Thinking About
Wynning: At 3:07 AM Saturday, I awoke from peaceful slumber and realized I was still in a comped luxury suite at Steve Wynn's Encore ...
Take a Chance Encounter
Circa 600 BC a Philistine giant measuring over nine feet tall (apparently hyperbole is not new) came out mocking his opponents. His name ...
Still Going Pro
There is a veritable plethora of negative energy out there and I have been sorely tempted to succumb. Fortunately, I ...
It COULD Happen, Every Spring
While most of the U.S. is still feeling Winter's last powerful gasps, Spring has sprung here in AZ. We may ...
A Rocky start
About 15 years ago, my wife and I were sheltering my nephews and their mother while she went to school and worked ...
The Plains Truth: He’s 84!
Last Friday Jimmy Carter came to Arizona. About 6 months ago I got a very nice note from him, thanking ...
The Attraction of DisTraction
We affectionately call my youngest grand-daughter "Verbal" after the amazing character played by Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects. She ...
Moving Words
I love words. I get a real rush out of finding the right words and turning them into a phrase ...
The Powords that be
One of my all time favorite Twilight Zone episodes has the Devil taking a job as a typesetter in a ...
Be yond Belief
Mr Webster tells us that Belief is "confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous ...
Waiting for Google
Sometimes I just want to ask "what am I supposed to do now?" and have Google come back and give me all of my ...
Sometimes you need to look Someplace else
I am sorry for missing this week's epistle, but until today I had little to offer. Today I received an ...
Time to Pay Attention
There's the old line about being so poor you can't even afford to pay attention. There's Mr. Miyagi imploring Daniel-san ...
Keanu Alotta FlickToo
If I had to rank them, I'd say Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Forbidden Planet and Them with The Day ...
If you build it…in the woods…will they still come?
I agreed to tape the pilot episode of America's Greenest Game Show "Truth or Inconvenient Consequences" at the Scottsdale Festival ...
Unanimity with Multiformity
While working my day job last week I received an email asking for "Diveristy Champion" nominees. I immedately sought to ...
A mere 40,000?
As I mentioned 2 weeks ago, November 3rd marked the 1st anniversary of my ebook publication. I was hoping to ...
If I could Fall back…
Did Tyrone Davis invent Daylight savings time in 1970? In U.S. Football we have offsetting penalties that result in a ...
Untouchable or just not from Chicago?
As we approach the first full year of my Authorian Adventure I am reminded of Officer Jim Malone's ( Sean ...
Champagne Sellabration
Many thanks to the folks at the Champagne Sundays Radio Show for talking to me about my book this morning ...
Listing toward Destiny
I am not now nor will I ever be a sailor. And even though I heard once that 70% of ...
Face Off Space Out
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of listening to a presentation on the Milennial generation. This is essentially ...
Spending Time?
There are over 7 billion people in this world and I would venture to say at least half of them ...
Thinking about Juke Box Jumpin?
For me, the single most amazing and influential man-made system I have ever seen is the Juke Box. A robotic arm ...
Let’s Go Let Go and Let it Be
There are many things I try when I a need to get motivated and focus on the task at hand. I think ...
Ironing out your Brand
The calves of Samuel A Maverick were without brand and from this negligent rancher came our term for "masterless" and our 1957 James Garner TV Show, ...
Breaking Even
Our good friend Mr. Webster defines Even as "leaving no balance of debt on either side". If we also take ...
A Wiki Wiki in Review
Yesterday I saw Ed Begley Jr on the CBS Sunday Morning Show. The story was about his commitment to being environmentally ...
Be Qoolity
As a member of the baby boom generation, my media of choice in my young adulthood was Big Black CDs (as ...
Innerfacing
Ya, my blog looks different today...let me explain. Last weekend I went to SF, CA. SFO is linked directly to BART. So when I ...
Ultramodern Chinese PROverbs
On Friday I watched the Chinese present one of the most symbolic and meaningful displays of true Olympic spirit EVER ...
The Is of a Writer
I took my wife to Vegas this weekend for her brithday. Every so often I set aside my to do ...
Drilling for Ink
I’ve “scene” it a hundred times. The soldiers gather anxiously for mail call and when the looks of dejection appear ...
Comic Cons and Prose
This week San Diego will host some 125,000 people attending, Comic Con 2008. No one seems to mind that the ...
iRonically Delicious
Several months ago, I signed books at the Fountain Hills Book Festival in Arizona. I arrived about a half hour ...
Watch Out!
Five of my six Grandkids now proudly proclaim that they can tell time.(the sixth just turned one, we'll cut him ...
Seeing De Light
Last week I had the privilege of speaking to some folks about...well...about being different I guess you could say. The ...
There’s nothing like a real VacateShun
There is great value in letting go of life's ever growing list of things to do and allowing new thoughts ...
Still on the Loaf someplace else
So the lucky winner of an ElseWear polo correctly completed Curly's classic tale of working as a pilot in the ...
You just sold more books than you ever thought you would!
What are ya gonna do now? I'm goin ta Disneyworld! Sorry folks I'm visiting The mouse this week. We're talkin ...
Gaining Lost persepective
In my family of 5 we almost alwyas have five points of view. A perfect example of this was displayed ...
Tick Tech or Tick Talk it’s still Story Time
Last week I gave a short presentation to the Arizona Book Publishers Association. They had asked me to give a ...
Inventory Now Cinco Times Cinco
We are no longer sold out! I managed to get 25 more books into inventory, the SomeplacElse Store is back ...
Cinco Sinks Our Inventory Levels!
Thank you all for the tremendous response to the Cinco De Mayo Promotion! I had stocked what I thought were ...
3 Kings of orient are on
I like to surf on my couch. I admit it. I don't curl up with a book or a magazine ...
A Human Writes Discourse
Bloggers have all been asked to address Human Rights on May 15th, 2008. I am complying. There are countless blogs ...
Content with CONtent?
20 years ago I taught Systems at a local community college. If my students learned only one thing, it was the Socratic method; Never ...
Just who is UmAndDa?
Before I explain today's title, let me first wish you all a safe and happy Cinco De Mayo. Cinco is a ...
Going Incre-mental
Aristotle walks up to Plato and says, "Teach me the law". Plato says "1 million drachmas". Aristotle replies "I haven't got any ...
A Free Earth Fix…Ed’s Book
In honor of Earth Day I will send a free copy of Ed Begley's book Living Like Ed as seen ...
The Word Funk
Last week a good friend told me that he was unable to write because his life kept getting in the ...
Mr. Robbins Hood?
I'm not sure what the suits from NAB were expecting when they brought in Tim Robbins as the keynote speaker, ...
NABbing Vegas
I'm late. I know it. On Sunday I was playing a hot roulette wheel into the wee hours and I decided ...
Icon? No I pro
Last week my publicist sent me a "Pre-campaign" analysis of the various websites I have concocted over the past six ...
Wake up! There’s an Amazon POD in YOUR Publishing house
As in the classic 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a very nasty rumor from last week about Amazon trying to take ...
Pro motion
The word "mote" (ya, it's really a word) is defined as a very small particle, a speck. If I think about it, and ...
Phlight oph the Fenix
At the end of the movie Jimmy Stewart/Dennis Quaid, playing the wiley veteran pilot, has 5 chances to fire up ...
Re markable
I always try to get my taxes done before the Ides of March (March 15th). That is, when I am getting a ...
Time To Right Yourself
Harkening back, as I tend to do in this Blog, I remember the Association singing a tune called "Time for Livin". The ...
Pity stays home
The way I heard it, "This little Piddy went to market". Apparently, my farm folk relatives(Vegans will appreciate this) couldn't handle ...
Victory in Retreat
When I write fiction, I think it is important to write a backstory for every character mentioned. This provides the writer with two ...
Of ketchup and foresight
Years ago Carly Simon had us all "Anticipating" Heinz ketchup. Today, my published paperback "is making me wait" for this is the ...
Just say KNOW!
The writings of Buckminster Fuller have had a great influence on me. I guess I just really relate to someone who ...
The Weight
Last October, I finished my novel. I was ecstatic. I said what I wanted to say. My readers and proofers ...
Authors: Don’t be herd
In the never ending quest to reach the digital market with our words we cannot ignore the audiophile. As pointed ...
Turning the Tried
About this time last year I decided to change directions and find a new way to earn a living in ...
The proof is in the putting
I just finished the fifth edit of my book. This was the final edit before it goes to press next month. I payed ...
A writer writes, always
When you are exploring the various ways to publish and market your book there is a tendency to get lost ...
Wronging a write r
On a site called speculations.com you will find many many resources and opinions for and about writing. The section that caught my eye is titled ...
of characters and Character
In my book Herb is a very minor character portrayed as a diplomat seeking sanctuary SomeplacElse. In my life the real ...
Formatting, Fivematting…Whatever it takes
First I heard from the Mac Users...What about me? Apparently neither dnaml DesktopAuthor nor Flip Publisher Enterprise are capable of ...
Kindle publishing and the Theory of Relativity
I have been working with some great folks at Dog Ear Publishing for the last 2 months. By February I ...
Kindle-ing e-book enthusiasm?
Amazon's grand experiment in replacing paper with bytes has begun. They are selling the Kindle ebook reader for $399, but ...
The RIGHT$ Craft
I was thinking about the writers strike when I went to a writers conference this past weekend. According to Saturday Night ...
I had this idea…
Hello, my name is B.L. Lindstrom. I'm a writer. I wrote a book. Then I set out to get it published ...