Building my own airplane
We’ve been preparing for it for a while, but my partner Tom Komer and I finally pulled the trigger and bough a kitplane – a Van’s RV-7, to be exact. I had been wanting my own plane ever since I started flying way back in 1998. I’m joking there – in terms of aviation, 9 years […]
Blog Tag Meme
OK – so my buddy David wants me to participate in his Meme, so I will. It’s supposed to be “5 things you didn’t know about me” – so: My daughter was Toto in the “The Wizard of Oz” ballet I was the announcer for the Turtle Races for 5 years I have Type II […]
Vegas x 2
Going to Vegas the next two weekends in a row! Woo hoo! Taking the 182 both times, staying at Mandalay Bay both times – but the similarity ends there. Week one is with the boys. Eric, James, Rob and myself heading there just for guy type fun. You know: quiet dinners, some light discussion, and […]
How people try to make money on the web
It seems to continue – the says of the web 1.0 boom where people expected to be able to make boatloads of money for doing almost nothing on the web. While YouTube wasn’t a “nothing” site, the idea that you could build a place for folks to upload videos, and then make 1.56 BILLION dollars […]
Sydney Bakst as Lucy
The child just keeps getting CUTER. This time she was Lucy for Halloween. Went to Universal Studios with her Aunt Diane Vincent (world famous Lucy impersonator) and had pictures taken by park goers and everything. Then out for trick or treating, where I repeatedly heard “Honey – you HAVE to come see this Lucy!” Yes […]
You think spam is bad?
Try getting onto a mortgage lead list when you don’t want to be. It started on Thursday – calls from mortgage companies, asking for my ex-wife (who hasn’t lived here in many years) saying that she had requested information on a refinance. The first couple I just said “No – and you shouldn’t be calling me […]
How much would it take to sell your company?
A question I’ve been asking myself since Google bought YouTube for $1.65B. Now make no mistake – that is a LOT of money, and it’s hard for me to envision a time when I’d turn that down. But it begs the question: if you GET that offer, how can your company not be WORTH that […]
General ranting
Ok – so the flight to Sedona was awesome, the trip was awesome, the flight home was perhaps the best I have ever had, and the US got absolutely stomped in the Ryder Cup. Now I need to get a few items off my chest: Raising a child is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, […]
More flying!
This turns out to be a big week for flying. On Thursday, I flew out to Chino to chech out the immaculate RV-7 of Dan Checkoway. Wow. We spent some time talking about spcifics of his plan, avionics, performance, fuel economy, etc. Then he took me up. When out over the nearby lake and did […]
Flying Adventure
Been a while since I had a real flying adventure. Given that I’m flying to Sedona, Az this weekend, figured I might as well PACK some real flying in. Mom’s friend Patti needed to pick up a car from LA – said she’d be dricing down with Jim to pick it up in Palmdale, then […]