Author: Chris

Safely arrived at Porcfest yesterday around noon yesterday.  Setting the over night at Albany was a much better idea than Utica.  Having an actual reservation at an actual hotel was an even better idea. After a little later start that I planned (blocked in by a delivery truck at the hotel), the drive up to…

The Indiegogo campaign for the local restaurant I have been working with launched today.  Its am ambitious goal, but achievable with your help.  If you believe in local business and/or want to support locally source food / farmers then take a look and buy in.  If you want to support us but are light on…

I bought a domain name last night. The confluence of working to help get a local restaurant open, watching the movie Chef, and seeing all the food trucks at Bunbury has triggered my entrepreneurial bug. Hopefully more soon.

Spent father’s day on the road, driving through Ohio, Pensylvania, and New York which was a massive amount of suck. The bright side is my two great kids came along with me so to make up for a suckish Father’s day, I get a whole week camping in New Hampshire with the closest thing I’ve…

Tomorrow is packing day.   Sunday is driving day.  And Monday – Saturday are all chill days.  I’m heading back for the second year to the Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire which has been put on the last decade+ the Free State Project.  I went last year on a lark and as one, rather famous…

And another one bites the dust (from the “to read” pile).  Admittedly this was a rather short (201 pages) book but I am making progress.  If I can keep up at this pace I will feel OK about setting foot in Half Price Books again by mid-July. The most recent book to make the trip…

Interesting idea.  It’ll really take off when it adds a monetization component, i.e. being able to put money behind certain positions and then allow policy makers to tap that money when they support that position.  Political Kickstarter.  And payment will only be upon receipt.  I think that might be along the lines of what Dan…

Another HBP find from last month’s trip was added to the “done” pile over the weekend: Persian Fire by Tom Holland.  I had had one of his other books on my actively seeking list, found and read it earlier in the year.  This one was a chance discovery that I picked up since I enjoyed…

Attempts to teach intellectual skills directly inevitably fail, because each child must develop them in his or her own way, through his or her own self-initiated activities. But adults can influence that development through the environments they provide. Children growing up in a literate and numerate environment, for example—such as an environment in which they…