The Automation Support Center has won governance for a new national help desk. It’s a fantastic development. I have not been around a group of people who earned an acheivement more than this group. The management and technicians are professionals and dedicated to providing outstanding customer service. The model for the help desk is somewhat analogous to [...]

For the first time in 19 years the Chiefs will not be televised in their home market. This one’s for you, Scott, Todd and Clark. Actually, the lyrics are utterly unrelated except for the massive drinking that takes place at the tailgate. I realize I missed a day But I’m too wrecked to care anyway I look around and see [...]

I hear a LOT of people bitching about wanting a playoff in college football. I am not one of them. The old bowl system was quirky but awesome: it ensured that the regular season was packed with meaning and it gave us New Year’s Day- a day when 2, 3 or even 4 high profile matchups would [...]

From a co-worker: Times are rough for every day Joe, going to work, coming home, trying to get the money to put food on the table and pay their bills. But imagine if you will, finding out you have a mass on your brain, losing the ability to work without getting MASSIVE Headaches and getting sent [...]

How the Mighty Have Fallen Just two years ago, KU football was scaling unseen heights, led by Coach Mark Mangino. A Top 5 national ranking and impending showdown with Top 5 ranked rival Missouri in the Border War had the eyes of College Football Nation riveted on the rural Midwest. KU would go on to win [...]

My life has been hallmarked by a series of incremental changes. Most of them point to a clean, technological future: Windows Mobile 6.5 on the Jack: I love the phone but I am mildly dissatisfied with the Windows Mobile interface. It’s not nearly as heinous as the UI offered on the Palm Centro [1999 is calling...] [...]

I wrote this in response to yet another criticism of Dayton Moore on Royals Review, which has gone from being slithly amusing to being a groupthink-driven Moore bashing forum. I’ll stand up as a Moore apologist on a few counts: There is a fifteen year culture of losing with this franchise. Moore’s primary player acquisitions [Crisp, Jacobs] [...]

It seems like people have missed the point of health care reform. Of course it will result in rationing. That’s what health insurers do now through denial of benefits. The difference under health care reform is that the Federal Government will give political cover to denials of claims. It’s not longer “that’s the policy.” Instead it’s “That’s the [...]

How is Obama going to pay for it all? Let’s start with an important understanding: the Federal deficits and accumulating debt are a bipartisan issue. However, it’s on the present Administration to clean the mess up. We’re past the point where we can put off a solution because deficits are swelling beyond the ability [...]

In Defense of Moore, Hillman and the Process The past 3 years have been incredibly frustrating for Royals fans, to say the least. After a non-competitive decade hallmarked by a lack of investment in player development fans had seen their franchise-once a template for a successful operation-reduced to little more than a AAAA farm club for real [...]