Archive for 2008/12


My Mother’s Birthday

Yesterday my mother was 82 years old.  She just told me she hadn’t expected to live that long. We sent her flowers.  You just dial up a Website, click on a picture and it’s done.  Ah, the greatness of the Internet.  My mother uses the Net too.  My sister originally insisted she get a Windows […]

RIAA Lawsuits

It’s a little too littleIt’s a little too late "Little Too Late"Pat Benatar Am I scared of ISPs becoming rogue enforcers of the law…  OF COURSE!  But, it appears for now that the RIAA agreements with ISPs are all bluster.  And Cary Sherman admitted that issues of "due process" have not yet been worked out.  […]

Pricing

"I bought three or four to give to friends!" We were sitting inside the cafeteria at Mid-Vail during the blowingest snowstorm imaginable and struck up a conversation with the sixtysomething gentleman who sat down at our table.  Turned out he was a restructuring specialist from Dallas.  He’d booked this trip long ago.  If he hadn’t […]

U2/Live Nation

You don’t want to pay for the rights, you want to be the MANAGER!  The manager gets his equity for free.  Funny how Irving Azoff trumped Michaels Rapino and Cohl regarding this, and got Ticketmaster to fork over a ton of dough for his Front Line asset to boot! The star in this stock repurchase […]