Factory Emissions
Thoughts, ideas and plenty of hot air.
I’ve Got Mail

I love getting mail. Sales brochures from the newest hair salon in town, a letter from my local real estate agent telling me the market is on an upswing, coupons from the pizza restaurant down the street, a fun burger-shaped flyer offering me $2 off my next meal… I love ‘em all.
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Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

How many times this week have you gotten mad at the car in front of you for driving too slow? Gotten frustrated at your cell phone provider for dropping a call? Started to mumble at the cashier for taking her time as she scans your groceries?
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The Soundtrack To My Life

I think of my father whenever I hear the Fisheries Broadcast theme start up just around suppertime.
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Christmas Apps for the Non-believers!

Portable North Pole and Magic Santa are bringing back believin’ with their apps that let you customize videos from Santa Claus (c’mon, no one’s getting letters via Canada Post anymore!).
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The Magic of Christmas is Making a Comeback

The “Toy Factory”. What a concept. Reminiscent of childhood dreams and the magic of Christmas.
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Time For A Change… Land Line to iPhone!

I don’t have a cell phone. This fact usually causes people to look at me as if I just grew an extra head right in front of their eyes. It is incomprehensible to so many and most times prompts the question, “How do you live?!”
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What we can learn from Vince McMahon and the XFL

You knew it was in trouble when on the first coin toss of the first game – well, not a coin toss but two guys diving for a football – one of the players separated a shoulder. A failure by every definition of the word. I say “so what?”
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Where Have All The Pirates Gone?

His vision and tenacity had a profound effect on me from the first time I started reading about these two dudes, the two Steve’s in California, creating something wild & new.
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All Hotels Are Not Created Equal…

Some ideas make things so simple that it’s hard to believe that no one came up with it sooner! In fact it should and probably will replace the old way completely and quickly.
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The Internet Has Come A Long Way – 1996 vs. 2011 (Infographic)

If you remember the sound of a dial up modem as it transported you (at a whopping 56k connection) into the wild wild west of the world wide web, then you know how very far the internet has come.
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