George’s slightly off-center view of the world
What amused me
Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman driving in the wrong direction? On Interstate 5? (“The Five” as they say in southern California.) On the Santa Ana Freeway in Orange County – home of Disneyland? In the carpool lane? Hard to imagine, I know. But Mr. Rodman had a good excuse. It was someone else’s fault. According to his attorney, “The driving error at night was due to poor sign placement.”
No word from the driver who swerved to avoid Rodman’s vehicle and crashed into a concrete barrier.
Remember the year 2000? I do. We expended time and effort to reassure business partners that we had made preparations to prevent all our systems from crashing at one second past midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999. We even had high-tech shorthand: Y2K. (Y2K – get it?) Today, we would expect a logo and theme music as well. All because the tech-wizards in whose genius we relied, didn’t know the year 2000 was coming. Guess what? They’re back. The subsequent tech generation is unleashing the Internet of Things. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Continue reading “The Internet of Wh-a-a-a-t?”
It’s not easy being Johnny Depp. It’s not inexpensive, either. Imagine if you had all these financial obligations:
With two recent motion-picture box-office bombs, Mr. Depp’s expenses are outpacing his income. So of course he is doing what any sane person would do: blame somebody else. Johnny Depp is suing his long-time business managers, The Management Group, for $25 million, claiming they never told him he might have some financial problems. TMG responded that they, “… repeatedly warned and advised Depp to reduce his spending and sell unnecessary assets. But ultimately, the decision whether and how to spend his money was a decision for Depp to make. Depp listened to no one, including TMG and his other advisors, and he demanded they fund a lifestyle that was extravagant and extreme.”
And you thought you had problems.
Santa Rosa California, where I spent the past two decades, is the largest city between San Francisco and Portland. Its population is 175,000, about 50,000 more than when I arrived. Notable citizens of the city, other than me, included Luther Burbank, Robert Ripley, Charles M. Schulz, and champion self-promoter Guy Fieri. His celebrity-driven success made it expedient to sell Johnny Garlic’s restaurant, his starting point before Food Network fame.
