Join me for music and fun, apple wine and good friends at the Tapped Apple, 37 High Street, Westerly, RI!
All ages welcome, no cover! 7-9 PM Tues., 11/7!
New Gig, Westerly RI, Nov. 7, 2017
Newtonian Economics in 21st-c. America (or, What’s Smarter than a Phone?)
Apple invented the smartphone, when it morphed a glorified Sony Walkman, the iconic iPod, into a telephone.
Now, the phone is (almost) the part you don’t need, and the pod has become a proper little pad. A little iPad – like the iPad’s little brother. But the little pad is a phone, still … for now.
Through the company’s long history Apple has invented many cool things. But not many new ones lately.
The bubble has burst … the game tilted.
GET READY TO PLAY!
It’s a good time to stop and look at where we are! Continue reading “Newtonian Economics in 21st-c. America (or, What’s Smarter than a Phone?)”
Until We Can’t (A Poem)
Life’s a critical condition
At least in my head
Wake up falling in the air
Until … or if …
Until we’re dead!
Baby trooper in midstorm
Better be quiet or be torn
The goal is to simply land
Until … or if …
We hit the sand!
Bad guys guns and bombs
I know better; I feel strong
I want to win; I know I can
Until … or if …
Here comes the storm! Continue reading “Until We Can’t (A Poem)”
The Old-Fashioned Radio Show
It was 1980. Hair was big. John’s last name was Cougar. Apple computers didn’t exist. Diana was engaged to Charles. Rambo was just a twinkle in Stallone’s eye. And I was a disc jockey and newsman at WERI AM/FM in Rhode Island.
I came home every weekend from Boston College to work on-the-air. I missed a lot of Friday night parties at school, but thankfully the student body started every weekend on Thursday.
I didn’t have big hair, but a lot of popular musicians did. I loved throwing Frisbees with my friend John Cavaliere in the square, where the girls could possibly be watching from their dorm room windows. Continue reading “The Old-Fashioned Radio Show”
Amazon, The Big Engine That Can’t
Sometimes when a company says they have great customer service, they don’t.
They may, though, have a hopeful program in place that aims to have great customer service, based on the fact they have bad customer service. Often this effort will be bolstered by advertising about how great their customer service is. In fact, often, if you want to know what a company is particularly bad at, just take a look at what they claim to be great at.
For Amazon, this dynamic is easy to see in the “Advantage” program.
The warehouses Amazon continues to build around the U.S. are not justified logically. The programs they support are for small sellers (like me) and don’t work. The company is denying the complicated problem by just building more. Continue reading “Amazon, The Big Engine That Can’t”
New Gig, Westerly RI, Oct. 16, 2017
Hi everybody!
You are hereby formally invited! Come see me play and sing a bunch of awesome songs at a great new winery with interesting and unique fare in downtown Westerly, RI.
I’ll be performing from 6-8 at the Tapped Apple, 37 High Street, Westerly, RI. Please tell your friends! Continue reading “New Gig, Westerly RI, Oct. 16, 2017”
Apple and the New Cloud 9 Operating System (or, What’s My Password Again?)
Do you have an Apple iPhone or computer?
Does it ask you for your “account password” too often and for no good reason? Is it, like many, stuck, and you dread the Fort Knox password-problem-process?
You are not alone.
Even the stalwart Android smartphone operating system (nicknamed “suck-an-apple”) leans on a cloud, but the brains behind those phones and tablets, many made by Samsung, already know and aren’t too stubborn to accept, people will never live in the cloud. Continue reading “Apple and the New Cloud 9 Operating System (or, What’s My Password Again?)”