I wrote this to a friend today and figured it best to share with you all. Yes, I’m quoting myself. Live with it. Love it. The best and worst thing Google has ever done is give people reports showing data that people think they want to see. In reality that data does nothing more than […]

The wait for Swatch’s new SISTEM51 here in the US is (almost) over! The SISTEM51 is Swatch’s fully-automatic, all-mechanical US$150 watch and on Tuesday (yes, this coming Tuesday!), July 1st, 2014, the SISTEM51 will make it’s official USA debut at Swatch’s Flagship Store in Times Square located at 1528 Broadway, New York City. One week […]

Life’s always hectic for me. It’s my natural state, I suppose. This month is a bit more hectic than normal, if there is such a thing. In addition to all my regular activities, I’ve just finished tech week and 3 shows of Next to Normal, my first foray into playing in a theater pit in […]

During the last week of July 2013, Lisa noticed an article in Bottom Line Personal entitled, “I’m Kicking the Sugar Habit!” We receive BLP in print form every two weeks, but most of the articles make it online, this among them. The article laid out a really simple, four-week plan that basically is geared to […]

I’ve been interested in Swatch’s new, mechanical, automatic and inexpensive Sistem51 since it was announced earlier this year.  This week the Sistem51 (finally!) went on sale… in Switzerland. The US release is still planned for “early 2014,” though they won’t confirm a more specific time frame than that (at least not with me… and not […]

As recent readers to my blog know I’ve been going through the process of collecting information to make a decision about my family’s health insurance needs for the future. I’ve made that decision, enacted it, and now am free-and-clear to resume living my life until this time next year when I’ll need to decide what to do for 2015.

Ok, so on the surface this is good for me. It lets me keep my plan. (Edit: no, it won’t. New Hampshire has opted not to extend the cancelation deadline, likely for the reasons I originally detailed below). But… we’re also still mandating that insurance companies must take people with pre-existing conditions. And now we’re (effectively) saying […]

Earlier this year Swatch made waves in the watch industry when they introduced the Sistem51, a watch with a mechanical movement whose assembly is fully-automated. This keeps costs down (think $150) while presumably preserving high quality (they say the watch is regulated by a laser at the factory and requires no further tuning). Initially rumored for […]

On Wednesday, President Obama sat down with NBC and issued what amounts to a blanket apology to people like me who had very good health insurance plans which will be canceled as a part of ACA/ObamaCare next year (plans that he has called “substandard”). Apology accepted. And Obama also deserves a heartfelt attaboy for stepping up […]

After last week’s Apple Event in San Francisco I had a chance to chat with Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman on Pimm Fox’s show. It was a fun chat, despite the treachery of the cars racing by just inches behind us! The thing that most impressed me at the event was the iPad Air. We got to […]