The Curse of Kelo

A simple thought: Phizer is eliminating 10,000 jobs. Do they still need all those parking spaces in New London, Connecticut? … [Continue reading]

On the Road

Posting may be a little slow for a while. I'm currently in Muskogee, Oklahoma, working on a disaster assignment for the American Red Cross.  We're helping sustain sheltering and meals for a wide swath of Eastern Oklahoma, where winter storms have … [Continue reading]

Rocket Feathers

You can spend ages describing curves, lines, arcs, dips, depressions, and textures with mathematical precision... ...or you can just call something a statue. One of the greatest gifts a communicator can wield when given an inscrutable scenario … [Continue reading]

Feed fixed?

There's been a bug in my Feedburner feeds ever since the upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.6 a few days ago.  Version 2.0.7 is supposed to have knocked that problem down. If you are just now getting posts in the reader, enjoy. If you are stumble across … [Continue reading]

Why are things so hard?

You know, if I could answer that question, I could make a great deal of money. Truly "making things simpler" can be exceedingly difficult, because it generally involves rethinking every assumption, or taking the whole paradigm out for a thorough … [Continue reading]

Naked Truth

If you want to get down to the essence of something, you strip away the unnecessary. Jamie Oliver successfully branded this notion to cooking, and became the Naked Chef. Dr. Charles Whelan applies the same formula, and calls himself the Naked … [Continue reading]

Simply Complex

"Making the complex simple through better communication." What exactly does that mean, anyway? If you're coming here looking for scholarly or hip analysis about communications, you're going to get it, but not directly. I want to have fun, … [Continue reading]