Death Star Economics

Doesn’t the Empire take a huge economic loss from the lost productivity of an entire planet?

What do we learn from the Star Wars trilogy (I refuse to consider the prequels part of Star Wars) about bureaucracy and power?

Hmmm, I’m glad you asked, because I wonder the same things.

You really need to read this article. I found it fascinating….

Death Star Planet Destruction – Link

 

Cell phone 1979

I don’t know about you, but I forget what it’s like to NOT have a cell phone–and I’m only 42. How did people order pizza on the way home from the office?

I like this video talking about the cell system for car phones in 1979.

I remember my boss got his first “brick” phone back in 1987 and I thought we were the coolest guys around.

Do you remember your first cell phone?

LINK TO FULL ARTICLE

BeadforLife to be presented with eTown Award

Ma ny of you know I’m on the Board of Directors for BeadforLife, a poverty eradication project based in Uganda. Ugandan women turn colorful recycled paper into beautiful beads, gather shea nuts to make shea butter for cosmetics and soaps, and women worldwide sell the items and educate themselves and others about extreme poverty.

This Sunday the 27th at 7pm at the Boulder Theater eTown, a nationally syndicated radio show, will interview founder Torkin Wakefield and present the organization with an E-Chievement Award!

Yeah!

Come join me in celebrating the good work this charity is doing in the world.

BeadforLife Award Announcement

 

Rock, Papers, Scissors

I n my continued pursuit of winning at Rock, Papers, Scissors (see my previous newsletter where I gave strategies), the New York Times has an active webpage where you can play against a computer, and the computer learns from you in order to beat you in subsequent tries.

It’s pretty good. Of course, it’s really an exercise in statistical averages and that we’re really not as random as we think we are.

But knowing that takes the fun away, so forget you just read that.

I encourage you to play at the link…..

 ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS – LINK