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Michigan & Adams/Caribou Coffee with Free WiFi/Visions of Trump Tower:

Ice Cream Parlor Ruminations

Recently, your blogger observed a group of people ordering scoops of ice cream at a local parlor (UDF- Clifton & Ludlow).

Is it weird that UDF sells ice cream in these conditions? The air temperature at the time of the observation was 18F. Cholesterol aside, wouldn't the temperatures of the food and the air combined keep a rational person from going for a banana split? Shouldn't these "dairy freaks" just order a cup of black coffee and switch back to the nipple when we break 70F?

Economic Stimulus

To my friends in DC- unsecured debt is unsecured debt. Instead of sending MORE checks to those that cannot manage financially, shouldn't you take care of this problem first?

Winter at Fairview Circle

Writer's Guild

Thank you to the Writer's Guild for getting the Golden Globes cancelled. Apparently they have now set their sites on the Grammys and the Oscars. This is great news. Most of us are tired of these self congratulating love fests, where awards are given based on revenues generated rather than artistic values.

Tony & Lil's

Cuz, this is a photograph of an actual Tony & Lil's Pizza Palace stuffed crust:



Hook a cuz up!

Skillets

Cuz, I am ready to come to the ORD/312...

Dynasties

Sports & Tech have something in common, namely, dynasties.

Think of the Kenyucky Wildcats Men's Basketball teams of the 1990s or the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s. Think of the IBM of the 1960s and the Microsoft of the 1990s.

All were dynasties.

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This blogger witnessed the rise of Microsoft, and simultaneously, IBM's decline. However the underpinnings of the former's ascent and the latter's descent were lost on a teenager.

GUI? Cool dude!

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Now, Microsoft descends as Linux ascends (heavily backed by IBM- irony), but this time the teenager is a man who understands the deep reasons for the sea change.

Great, but can an understanding lead to a forecast? Unfortunately not, because Linux and it's methodology are so fundamentally sound. Did Microsoft's model seem as fundamentally sound in say, 1995? Sure did. Forecasting is too complex for this simpleton.

Can another model replace the one offered by open source/Linux? Is the maturation of this industry similar to the maturation of the blogger? Microsoft a teenager, Linux a man? Ergo, a return to that delusional thinking will not occur?

New Favorite Show

This is from "Darkplace Hospital" which is a scream...