Year: 2014

Mushrooms May Solve a Low Tech Problem for a High Tech Industry

With all the jokes and clichés about mushrooms, it’s hard to imagine how those little bulbs of fungi can help the technology industry.  There are 5 classes of mushrooms, edible, toxic, medicinal, psychoactive, and industrial.  Long before synthetic dyes, mushrooms, which come in a variety of colors, would be run through a process to extract…
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Countries Visited

Traveling to new places and meeting the locals is more than a past time, its a passion. I’m not a nervous traveler and dangerous places are not off limits. I don’t consider putting a place on my list, unless I have experienced it. So hopping off a cruise ship to walk a port of call…
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Office Meeting Expense Request

It amazes me that in most companies you have to put in a purchase request to spend any money at all; yet people in the company can call a meeting with total disregard to the expense of the meeting. If the average hourly wage of someone going into an office meeting is $25 (low end…
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The Changing Face of Television Advertisements

In the last 15 years we’ve seen a dramatic change in the advertising industry. Where paper and billboards once reigned supreme, the Internet dashed in and all but decimated the traditional newspaper. Those who couldn’t navigate the curve failed, a crippling recession only serving to hurry the process. Meanwhile, every day businesses struggled to comprehend…
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