Radio broadcasting, which is old-hat now, taken for granted as something most teens listen to on the Internet, or are forced to when their parent is driving, once was amazingly new, the cat’s meow for sure. The basic idea that electromagnetic waves could be transmitted, and with some form of intelligence embedded within, was first…
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Games We Like to Play
Most of us have some sort of games we enjoy, whether it's running races, playing bridge or checkers, solving crossword puzzles, charades, following Jeopardy on TV daily, or whatever. Consider this one ... see if you think you'd like the competition. The contestants compete to achieve the highest number of what I'll call "brief occupations"…
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My Books of 2016
Money: The Unauthorized Biography, by Felix Martin This is a great, albeit a bit wonky book. His final argument, is that money is not a fixed amount, like an ounce of gold of a gram of silver, but a means of measuring and transferring a concept of value from one person to another. Moon Tiger,…
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The Long Road Promoting a Book
Well now, it's been a whole six weeks since Contact Sport, A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One-Day Race Around the World was released. There was a significant burst of activity worldwide from the super-prime core audience, namely radiosport enthusiasts, in spite of the fact that physical copies of the hard-cover book took over…
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