Living with a 5 year old
I have more stories about my 5 year old ! But much like the doting father who has way too many pictures in his wallet - I shall try to refrain - but from time to time some of it may bleed into my blog. And this is one of those times !!
My 5 year old (Lauren) came home from school last week, buzzing all about Leprechauns. What they do, what color they are, the sounds them make etc. Lauren cautioned me to be careful about finding gold coins in the street and picking them up – she told me very seriously, ‘you need to be very careful cause the gold coins could be a trap’ at 1,000 an ounce I told her I would take my chances. She admonished me on this laisser-faire attitude towards the Leprechauns. My wife came home and she got the same lecture on what I have now termed the ‘Leprechaun Menace’ – to my 5 years olds consternation – my wife told her that Leprechauns were not real, Lauren turned to me and said, ‘Daddy tell Mommy they are real’. I went into the kitchen, got a box of Lucky Charms and boldly said with my 5 year old at my side, “If Leprechauns are not real, who the heck is this” as I pointed to the box. My wife looked at both us – and presented with this seemingly unimpeachable evidence looked at me and said, “you’re getting up tonight when she wakes up at 2:00am screaming about Leprechauns in her bedroom” For the record, she did not get up until 3:00am.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Blog Restart
Blog Restart - Nothing to see here move along !!!
March 20, 2008
So I dropped in on Bob Guise, CEO of VersaCall, we had an interesting conversation on everything from the economy to what Bob called ‘Dancing’ with Elephants. Dan’s company has been doing some business with some very large companies and Dan was briefing me on the difference the size of a company made. This is an issue many tech companies go through, the long sales cycle, the seeming indifference to drive a decision, endless meetings all contribute to making ‘dancing with elephants’ more art than science. Bob has been around town a long time and I think of him as one of the ‘smart’ guys who has managed to get through the tough times of the early 00’s and has built a great company that helps manufacturing companies with productivity. Versacall has wireless factory floor software and hardware that keeps manufacturing companies on the path of higher productivity.
I also met with a very cool company in Carlsbad called Xenonics. This is definitely one of the visits I enjoyed, I was there to brief the CEO Chuck Hunter on AeA and I got a little too caught up in having him demonstrate his technology. Xenonics' develops and produces advanced, lightweight and compact ultra-high intensity illumination and low-light vision products. They make an incredibly easy to use night scope, Chuck handed me a filter that simulated nighttime and had me slide it over the lens and look outside, everything was in perfect view and focus. Most of us are used to seeing that military green video that shows nighttime views – this was nothing like that and you could see…pardon the pun – clear as day. Xenonics is public company really starting to take off and futher puts Carlsbad on the map as a critical cluster of our regions tech economy .
March 20, 2008
So I dropped in on Bob Guise, CEO of VersaCall, we had an interesting conversation on everything from the economy to what Bob called ‘Dancing’ with Elephants. Dan’s company has been doing some business with some very large companies and Dan was briefing me on the difference the size of a company made. This is an issue many tech companies go through, the long sales cycle, the seeming indifference to drive a decision, endless meetings all contribute to making ‘dancing with elephants’ more art than science. Bob has been around town a long time and I think of him as one of the ‘smart’ guys who has managed to get through the tough times of the early 00’s and has built a great company that helps manufacturing companies with productivity. Versacall has wireless factory floor software and hardware that keeps manufacturing companies on the path of higher productivity.
I also met with a very cool company in Carlsbad called Xenonics. This is definitely one of the visits I enjoyed, I was there to brief the CEO Chuck Hunter on AeA and I got a little too caught up in having him demonstrate his technology. Xenonics' develops and produces advanced, lightweight and compact ultra-high intensity illumination and low-light vision products. They make an incredibly easy to use night scope, Chuck handed me a filter that simulated nighttime and had me slide it over the lens and look outside, everything was in perfect view and focus. Most of us are used to seeing that military green video that shows nighttime views – this was nothing like that and you could see…pardon the pun – clear as day. Xenonics is public company really starting to take off and futher puts Carlsbad on the map as a critical cluster of our regions tech economy .
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