Category: Design

  • Monday Jan 28 2019   An article in the WSJ suggests Tesla could learn from Apple.  Steve Jobs tried manufacturing only to close the plant. Now Apple outsources manufacturing to a third party. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-should-pull-an-apple-leave-production-hell-to-other-people-11548435605   Why not do the same for Tesla?  Tesla has not met its goals for the lower priced model production. GM…

  • Friday January 11, 2019   This week I interviewed Lawrence Coffee and Mike Lovelace at the Aventine Hill office in San Antonio both of whom introduced Power BI – an impactful tool to visualize the metrics that drive your organizations strategic objectives. Lawrence is the Senior Manger of Business Intelligence (BI) and Mike, as a CFO advisor…

  • Friday Nov 10, 2017 Dr. Elam,   Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the Accounting Advisory Board, and the most recent meeting!  I hope my contributions were helpful.  Nevertheless, there was much more I wanted to contribute about Artificial Intelligence, but time did not permit.  If I may, I would like to share…

  • Weekend January  28, 2017 Design is a big thing with me. I get frustrated with poor design.  ATT used the same phone for decades and only went pushbutton in the 1970s. but you could attack a burglar with their original analog rotary dial phone, and having dispatched the intruder with a vicious hard knock to…

  • Tuesday Dec 6 2016 Bon Appetit magazine sent Andrews for a 24 hour shift at Franklin Bar Be Que. Texas Monthly magazine has proclaimed Franklin's to be the best in the universe. It is located at 900 East 11th in Austin, Tx. The video shows people waiting from  4 00 AM sitting outside for the…

  • Thursday Nov 10, 2016 "Bob composed 'Blowin' in the Wind' in a matter of minutes sitting in a cafe across the street from the Gaslight Club. Although he thought 'Blowin' in the Wind' special, he did not understand the full significance of what he had done. 'It was just another song I wrote.' The melody…

  • Thursday July 21 2016   The New Horizon Spacecraft traveled some three billion miles over  a ten year period to send back this photo of Pluto. Click this NASA site to learn more.

  • Wed March  25, 2015 The hemline indicator states that as social mood grows more positive, it invites a frisky attitude in fashion. This results in shorter skirts. The idea is that the hemline rises and falls with the stock market, that laboratory of social mood.  Pete Kendall has an interesting history in this video Skirts.  I…

  • Wed Dec 31 2014 Ten Brands Not Likely to Survive  RSH and SHLD were both on the list last year, can they eke out another year?