Solitaire — the pastime of playing cards alone — is often regarded with disdain. Solitaire players are viewed as slackers wasting time when they should be doing something productive. Solitaire is even seen as a pathetic pursuit — a game for outcasts and loners of...
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Social Media Week Chicago: Reinventing media careers
Social Media Week Chicago took place last week, and one of the sessions generating some online buzz was the event above on Friday evening, featuring: Nancy Loo (@NancyLoo) Robert Feder (@RobertFeder) Richard Roeper (@richardroeper) and Steve Dahl (@SteveDahlShow)...
Website redesign, domain change
Testing, 1, 2, 3. Is this thing on? We've just gone through a domain change. And a website redesign. Between designing other people's websites to help them make more money, and working on this site to make it more effective, I feel like I've been living underground...
Telecommuting termination: Exit interview by telephone
I'm sitting in my kitchen waiting for Rod Zimmerman and Todd Cavanah of CBS Radio to phone and officially terminate my seven years of telecommuting employment with their company. Otherwise, it's at least sunny outside and I would like to shower and maybe go for a...
My website fell asleep
Holy smokes! Six weeks have gone by. There was a phone call at the end of August about developing a small Web site. The next thing I knew, I was sitting down in my office every morning at 6 a.m., walking downstairs for dinner after 7 p.m.,...
Romiti Construction, General Contractors, Racine
Sturtevant, Wisconsin — He came out of the Menards store to find us admiring and photographing his vintage Dodge pickup truck in the parking lot. He said he was its only owner, and it still ran great. The emblem on his hat...
Home office in Kenosha, with feet up
Kenosha, Wisconsin: At home in my office with the sounds of the harbor outside.
Home office in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Self-portrait: At work on an Apple computer workstation in my home office, surrounded by books.