Two hundred years ago women didn’t even ride horses. Now, when I take my daughter to her riding lessons it’s noticeable how there are no boys there. It’s certainly a girl’s hobby these days and probably the most expensive hobby an eight year-old could have. My daughter has been taking lessons for years and recently [...]

I've been in the Internet business for a while. In my time I've met some shady people. To tell you the truth, I've spent a LOT of time with some of these people. Buying and selling domains and websites in mass puts you in a lot of businesses after all. At one point I actually [...]

I've often been quoted saying that what I do for a living is answer emails. It's really all I do during the day and somehow, through this process, multiple companies are run. In fact, I have little time for anything else. I answer emails at traffic lights, at 2 a.m. in the morning and often, [...]

You know your kids go to a good school when a U.S. Senator donates tickets to the presidential inauguration ceremony. I just won the tickets at a charity auction. That, however, was the easy part. The hard part is going to be finding somewhere to stay. I'd really rather not stay outside of Washington D.C. [...]

Peter Steiner created this famous cartoon on July 5th, 1993 for an issue of The New Yorker. Considering that the first graphical web browser (Mosaic) was launched on April 22nd, 1993, it's really quite amazing how quickly Mr Steiner "got it". It's not that nobody knows you're are a dog. It's actually obvious to everyone [...]

When I was selling cars, back in the day, a bird flew by and took a dump right in the very center of the tie I was wearing. My sales manager walked by, pointed at it and told me, "Son, you are going to sell more cars today than anyone!". This weekend I had a similar [...]

Seventeen years ago when I was just a young punk of 18 years I considered joining the Marine Corps. I had told my grandfather, Colonel Edward Grayson that I wasn’t worried about getting into any wars. “Who did we have to worry about, the Chinese?” The Korean War veteran and member of the Chosin Few [...]