The Walton Firm Memos

New label, this time on the subject of some fantastically technological candy. The next time you’re chewing on a sweet thing with a futuristic texture and a 30-year shelf life, be sure to set a spell and think on the amount of science and engineering that went into it. Its surprising how much effort we [...]

Today I refer you to this Article in the New York Times.
and then consider a reaction:
…Yes Fred well I know thinks have been kind of bad this year and everything, with the economy and all, and, yes … Yes I was sad too when The Sharper Image went bankrupt. We all were, I mean we lost something really special [...]

Funny story, I had always really liked the keywords on IMDB.com. It just seemed really cool to me that people had taken the time to break all those movies down into their little elements and parts, one thing it gives us is a thematic index, with tags like “coming of age story”, “mental illness”, and so forth, [...]

… and she had wandered in laps around the reception, had tired herself by avoiding certain types of eye contact,and had been over to exhaustion her recent conversation points. Those easy tales that were in the young evening exciting and luscious morsels of talk, had been thoroughly aired out, drained of their syrup, and were [...]

Sadly, due to recent annoncements,  it looks like Steorn has turned out to be a rather ordinary failure of a free-energy scam. Miracle-energy is a classic gag. Going back by some accounts all the way to the early 1600’s,  there have been lots of people who have all billed themselves as renegade scientists who have [...]

Made a label. The quote is a true story about the knockoff trade, more background on that in the coming week hopefully.