Posts by Scott Barstow
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Michael Jackson is dead, according to TMZ Farrah Fawcett is dead. A legendary prep high school coach was shot dead by a former player. Mark Sanford continues to be the...
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Last night our home lost power in the middle of the night due to some pretty nasty rain storms. What happened in the next 5 minutes after the power dropped...
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I have been working on creating a home sound environment without investing in Sonos, mainly because it just seemed overpriced. Over the last couple weeks I have built what is...
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There are times when I realize that some of the people responsible for raising the next generation of children have serious issues. I happened across an episode of Real Sports...
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Seth Godin gave this presentation at TED. I saw it on a good friend’s blog and found it worthy of sharing. Enjoy
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For those of you that are fans of Coldplay, I got a tweet from them this morning about offering their new live recording for free on their site. Here is...
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Back in March, a bunch of us computer dorks were at a conference in Las Vegas. One of the guys from our office had given us a USB thumbdrive to...
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Tomorrow marks the return to the Yankees lineup of Alex Rodriguez. I remember talking to a fellow Yankees fan a few years ago when they signed A-Rod. I said at...
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About 2 years ago, I was in New York at my niece’s graduation and happened to be in Sam’s Warehouse club with my parents. I wandered by a bin full...
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About a year ago I had lunch with Henry Kaestner of Bandwidth.com about micro finance in developing countries. As a part of that lunch, I shared with Henry my ideas...
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I ran across this article on ESPN today about a house subcommittee that is now involved in the BCS and the never-ending debate about BCS vs. playoffs. I came up...
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We have the beginnings of a pandemic with this swine flu thing. Joe Biden got on the air this morning and said he would advise his family to stay home,...
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Two article headlines in my iGoogle news ticker today caught my attention, not because of their content, but because of what seemed to be a direct contradiction by the current...
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I was trolling the news sites tonight and happened upon this article from Reuters wherein the animal rights folks are upset because the Obamas decided to get their new pooch,...
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I went to hear a lecture tonight on the campus of NC State given by Dr. William Easterly. Dr. Easterly is renown for his stance, overly simplified by me, that...
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If I heard this phrase once in the last 3 days, I heard it 100 times. Everyone from Mariah Carey to people on the mall before the Inauguration kept saying...
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I attended a meeting a couple weeks ago where Tom Davis spoke. Tom is one of the founders of Childrens HopeChest, an organization that is dedicated to helping the growing...
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Not just a famous musical composition by G.F. Handel, these two countries have been linked together since the early days of civilization. Egypt in recent days has tried to inject...