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John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars – Pt. 11
JS: No matter how horrible you think it was, those two bombs saved a lot of lives on both sides. Estimates of what it would have cost to take the rest of the islands based upon the early engagements say…
Trickle Down With a Chain Saw
Given this is an election year, I thought it was time to share an essay from my book The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of Agile. The Hundred Fold Rule has many names. Candidates that really wants…
John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars – Pt. 10
Nukes and Nots SK: This may sound strange at this point but what the hell is a nuke? You have mentioned nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear weapons and now a nuke, but if I don’t have any idea what you…
John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars – Pt. 9
SK: So that’s what ended the Microsoft Wars? This bomb that was supposed to destroy the planet. JS: What? No. The people who controlled that got killed off in the third wave of attacks, long before the situation could have…
Should a TOC Have Leaders?
I have wrestled with this question for years. Early on some supposedly professional writers posted that a TOC shouldn’t have leaders. I believe they only wrote novels though. I put supposedly in italics because I have never seen or heard…
Never Eat at Burger King
I’ve been a traveling consultant a long time. There are some things you learn and when you ignore that learning you pay that price. Today I ignored that learning and paid a high price. It’s the first warm weekend after…
John Smith – Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars – Pt. 8
JS: Sorry. It’s a very old joke. Those things you call shooting stars are meteors. They are the debris left over or cast out by a moon or planet’s destruction. SK: And that proves or proved what? JS: That there…