Jeff “Skunk” Baxter at the Inno Conference InnoTown Innovation Conference was established in 2000, and are regarded as one of the Premier Business & innovation Conferences in Europe. Every year InnoTown curates an acclaimed program of world-class speakers that is truly engaging for anyone with an international and innovative outlook. Fantastic speech with Jeff “Skunk” […]
An interesting chart below. An amazing rise in construction of data centers in a little over ten years. In 2014, construction of general office space was $32 billion and data centers just $2 bilion. By 2025, the two were almost even with a $44.4 billion construction of office space and a $40.1 billion construction of […]
Old Man of the Frontier Loses Horse The Bitter Withy ____________________ Dating to the 2nd century B.C. The story exemplifies the view of Taoism regarding regarding “fortune” (“good luck”) and “misfortune” (“bad luck”). Good luck and bad luck create each otherand it is difficult to foresee their change.A righteous man lived near the border.For no reason, […]
Pomona Valley and Claremont (Circa 1920) Essence of the Sun __________________ I’m originally from LA and spent my high school years in Claremont, California. It’s a town in the Pomona Valley, an hour east of downtown LA off Interstate 10. An hour east of Claremont, through the pass of the two great mountains of San […]
An Autobiography The Aztec Sun God / Horace Silver ________________________ Tonight, on the porch over a few glasses of Pinot, we discussed the idea for a story told by a tree rather than a person. After all, stories told by people are getting to be pretty boring and repetive for me. I don’t know how […]
Impressions / McCoy Tyner ___________________________ John Fraim Every once in a while a social trend book pokes its sales head above the others and becomes a topic of popular discussion. One of these books was called Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam. Published in 2001 at the beginning of […]
A POWERFUL SCREENPLAY OFFERS A UNIQUE READING EXPERIENCE Jack Gillis (William Holden) at Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) Mansion That Old Black Magic _____________________________ Sunset Boulevard is the setting for one of the great films of all time. The supposed setting of the great film Sunset Boulevard is in this exclusive part of Sunset – like […]
It was a warm night and the DOGE team was on the porch of the Victorian (Image generated by AI) Essence of the Sun ___________________________________ New Speculative Fiction John Fraim I was drafted rather quickly out of school in Cambridge and went to work for DOGE in DC under Elon. I had worked with the […]
BUT MY EYES STILL SEE (Old adage / Name of a 1967 hit song by The Tremeloes) John Fraim In the late 70s, I became close friends with the minister of our church when he Baptized my first son. He was a graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary and was going through a divorce. We […]
Mt. Rainier / A.T. Ripley Miles Davis / In A Silent Way _________________________ “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir “While hiking in the snow on a cloudy day at MT. Rainier National Park, the clouds suddenly parted and there it was, THE MOUNTAIN! I knew it was […]
