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As a small business owner you find yourself suddenly deluged with all sorts of weird junk snail mail. The credit card offers are to be expected, but the catalogs of items that you only saw in stacks behind counters come as well. I suppose I should have wondered where takeout boxes, marquee letter menu boards, […]

Or as Richard Figueroa would say… “the newist intrenet (?) is hapnin now” If you weren’t there for Hampster Dance, or Star Wars Kid, or even Dramatic Chipmunk, now’s your chance to say you were there for Richard Figueroa. Go to TechCrunch and read it now. And read the comments. They are delicious. (Thanks to […]

I hate those lame blog excuse posts where the person whines about all the crap they have going on that is keeping them from blogging. This is one of them. Just fill in the blanks mad lib style to customize the post to suit your needs: Whoa, we’ve been super busy here at Jackson Fish […]

One of my odder leisure activities is reading old issues of Popular Mechanics, Mechanix [sic] Illustrated, and Popular Science, specifically from the 1950s and 1960s. This was the post-war period when “modern technology” as we know it was being invented, and I often find interesting parallels with today’s world. Of course, the technologies themselves changed […]

As a parent you can find yourself in all sorts of situations you never imagined (or desired). Mixing with the crowd of moms (I was the only dad) who are parents of my daughter’s classmates at the ballet school she attends was just such a situation. I’m sure they’re all lovely people, but it’s just […]