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  • StarLink is Disruptive Innovation. What does that mean?

    StarLink is Disruptive Innovation. What does that mean?

    In this article about Starlink’s latest launch Space News highlights that the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) are protesting the award of funding to Starlink. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a board member...


  • Only (right wing) Lunatics Don’t Trust Digital Voting. RIiiiggghhhht

    Only (right wing) Lunatics Don’t Trust Digital Voting.  RIiiiggghhhht

    BLUF: While what I write may seem “tinfoil” there is an HBO documentary about this very topic. I was asked today about my thoughts on “voting irregularities” and if I thought that there was wide-spread voter fraud sufficient to swing...


  • Has Post-Modernism Led to our Collapse?

    Has Post-Modernism Led to our Collapse?

    I have been pondering something for a while now, and just couldn’t figure out why things felt so “wrong” getting lectured by the liberal elites about how “science matters.” (Ignore, for a brief moment, Biden’s quote “We believe in Truth,...


  • Harvest Light

    Harvest Light

    It was a gorgeous morning today, following the day and a half of much needed rain. Always beautiful, and when I have a chance to also see the “John Deere” in the field, well, bonus. In case you have ever...


  • Revisiting “The Cult of the Amateur”

    Revisiting “The Cult of the Amateur”

    Almost a decade ago (perhaps, even longer) I read with great interest “The Cult of the Amateur” by Andrew Keen. The subtitle was quite interesting to me: “How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying...


  • Buy local–for the right reasons!

    This image appears on Facebook every so often, and it makes an appeal to “buying local” by, in part, disparraging the “big chains” as being greedy, and implying that all the money goes out of town. While there is “truth”...


  • Friends on the left: I need to address something important. Really important. You don’t know me. (Randy Bennett you are the exception.) And honestly, you don’t know most “conservatives.” I read last night someone’s screed where they wrote about conservatives:...


  • “Fair Share?”

    So the proposed Budget in PA has the line in it “…and make … companies pay their fair share.” QUESTION: What is a “fair” share? I would post a list of possibilities, but I really want to read what you all...


  • Review of Tunity App–listen to TV privately

    Review of Tunity App–listen to TV privately

    I was listening to the Android App Addicts podcast, and they shared this amazing app!  Go read about how you can listen to the TV privately, using the Tunity App! Be sure you go to the Real Tech for Real...


  • Looking for an inexpensive, easy to use computer?

    We posted this recommendation, and review, of Google’s Chromebooks on the Real Tech for Real People page on Facebook. One thing we learned over this holiday weekend is that these actually make great workhorses.  Whether you want to update your...