July 4th, 2016: Mormon Canyon

July 4th is when the United States of America celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For most Americans Independence Day is the most important secular holiday of the year. Of course, July 4th wasn’t the actual date of the signing – July...

Meeting young Mr. Trump

Back in 1980 I met Donald Trump. He came to a finance class to talk about real estate finance. I have no recollection of his talk. But I DO remember the visit and, given what I’ve read about Mr. Trump, some readers may find my recollection an interesting...

NABster 2016

Tomorrow the top StorageMojo superforecasting analysts are saddling up for the long ride to the glittering runways of Las Vegas. The target: NAB 2016. As much as I like CES, NAB is my favorite mighty tradeshow. It is toy show for people with very large budgets –...

Hike blogging: Soldiers Pass

If you’ve been wondering why the dearth of hike blogging the last few months, wonder no more: I wasn’t hiking. A nasty bug made its way through Arizona and I caught it, thought I shook it, went to CES, and relapsed, big time. So I’ve been taking it...