Mitt Romney and the Crucial Conversation

Posted on October 30, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

The modern political process often creates the environment for a political figure to secure his position in a race before the first vote has even occurred. In the Presidential process for 2012, the Republican race for the nomination is inexorably moving toward one individual, the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. The […]... Read More

The Artist

Posted on October 29, 2011October 29, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Hollywood’s collective idea of a great movie these days trends toward combining the wizardry of modern computers and animation with comic books. Caught between the strain of developing a complex storyline and knocking out another Batman movie, Batman wins every time. Since 1989, dark knight has been the focus of Batman (1989) Batman […]... Read More

People We Should Know #17 – Burt Rutan

Posted on October 23, 2011October 23, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Something soon and very special is going to occur in the New Mexico desert that will change our relationship to the heavens, and rejuvenate our gene for innovation and adventure. Sometime after Christmas 2012, a slender, beautiful space craft will take off from America’s first private commercial Spaceport and transport six passengers and […]... Read More

The Troubadour Returns

Posted on October 21, 2011October 21, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

After a significant hiatus, the American troubadour Ryan Adams has returned to writing and performance. His musical persona as a troubadour was first celebrated by Ramparts on 07/10/10, in the midst of his self induced absence from the music world. Only 37, the writer and performer Adams has been associated with reflecting and reforming almost all […]... Read More

Another Tyrant Down the Rabbit Hole

Posted on October 20, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

If you are a tyrant with an extended period of totalitarian rule over an oppressed people, there seems recently to be a tendency for you to realize the End of Days ignominiously down a rabbit hole. Saddam Hussein in 2003 was discovered hiding in a underground pipe absurdly demanding an interaction with the president […]... Read More

The End of Bricks and Mortar

Posted on October 17, 2011 by dzrubek Leave a comment

The time has come to put down the trowel and let the bricks lie, they are no longer needed. Since 9/11, there has been a huge drive in technology to protect and reproduce the function of a datacenter (Backend technologies) in the event of a disaster. Typically, companies will purchase or rent a […]... Read More

A Voice Like Sparkling Water

Posted on October 9, 2011October 9, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Everybody has their favorite voice variant that defines how they want to hear certain songs in the American Songbook. For me, its the melted caramel warmth of Ella Fitzgerald when she sings Rogers and Hart’s Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered , or Frank Sinatra’s masculine yet vulnerable rendition of Gershwin’s It Had To Be You. The […]... Read More

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Fall Classics, Everywhere You Look

Posted on October 8, 2011October 8, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

For most, baseball is an acquired taste. Slow moving, long on tactics and at times short on action, with byzantine and at times inscrutable rules and traditions, the game struggles to hold the attention of the casual fan. When the long summer days turn to fall, however, the air grows crisp and the nights cool, […]... Read More

The Motherlode Under the Prairie

Posted on October 2, 2011October 2, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

The north center core of the United States has for several hundred years been seen as the desolate outback of the country. Sparsely inhabited at one time by nomads, it was seen initially as an endless ocean of grass to be navigated and surmounted to reach the desired bounty of the more inviting western […]... Read More

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Month: October 2011