Author: Rick Klau

Robin and I took the better part of the last couple days to do some long-overdue cleaning around the house. At one point this afternoon, the boys’ bathroom was cleared out so I could scrub the floors and the sinks; our bathroom was in a similar state. Our bedroom, however, was mostly done, and the…

Chris Casey neatly sums up with two WaPo editorial cartoons the last couple weeks for Democrats. From this: To this: With George Allen about to concede, the macro election (a few races are still in recounts around the country): the House and the Senate are again Democratic majorities.

When we first moved here nearly 6 years ago, I was fortunate to have a co-worker whose daughter was eager to babysit. She was 13 at the time, and she turned out to be perfect: responsible, engaged, and she genuinely loved the kids. Of course, last year she went off to college, and now that…

He sure gives a good stump speech. (Removed video due to feed-related problems; working with plugin author to fix asap!)Available here if you want to hop on over to YouTube.

Josh has the details. If I didn’t know Josh better, I’d swear he was making it up. You should read the whole post. But here’s the quick summary: robocalls are illegal in Indiana. So, the NRCC, in an attempt to paint the Democrat in an Indiana race as soft on immigration, hired a phone banking…

What a great early Christmas present: Paul Curreri has a new album coming out soon, “The Velvet Rut”. The first track from the album is available over at Paul’s MySpace page, and all I can say is: wow. Talk about a new direction! It’s remarkable. Go listen.

Two posts lately by friends were an absolute joy to read: Erik Heels wrote about meeting a rock star at a Halloween party, and Marty Schwimmer wrote about a Springsteen tribute band. Not only were these posts fun to read, but is there any doubt that if you were a musician, you’d hire these two…

Long or Short Capital is evaluating the burgeoning candy exchange market, thinking about standardizing on the candy corn as the unit of candy reserve currency, and traders are shocked that the peanut isn’t contributing to a rise in peanut M&M values. This is almost as good as the excess candy I brought in this morning.…

Scott Converse, CEO at ClickCaster, wrote a thought-provoking piece the other day about being involved in a start-up as a 40-something. Some key take-away quotes for me: I’m in my 40’s. I’m divorced. I’m in good health. I don’t feel much different than I did when I was 25. I don’t party like a 25…

Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop: That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update. Now the fun begins!