In my endless quest for knowledge about everything, I’ve been delving into why people are so rabid about Tesla. It’s fascinating to me how people can be so apparently ambivalent about EVs (and maybe even not care for Elon Musk) yet be in LURV with Tesla. So I’ve been reading a lot of their specs…
This is very cool — my alma mater (and former employer) the University of Tulsa is installing an HUGE solar array on the roof of the Case Center in Tulsa. My Leadership Tulsa #49 colleague Jason Grunin tells me that the project will begin shortly, near the end of June. The 300-kilowatt array will belong…
May 12, 2016: I’m in Vancouver, B.C. this week for the United Way Worldwide conference. It’s been GREAT being back in the Pacific Northwest — for all too short a stay. I haven’t been here since 1997 and it reminds me of all the ways in which it’s different than Seattle or Portland and the…
That title is a tidbit and snippet of family lore from my Father in Law, Kenneth Gibson. He was a commercial realtor for Grover Bauer in Tulsa in the 1970s-80s, and he told me a story once about selling a commercial property for a client. The client was being a bit slow on paying him his…
So we’ve already covered that I’m a pack-rat where data is concerned. It’s easier to keep track of than boxes of paper, and backup tapes and the equipment to read them can fit in one box… Yesterday I exchanged Lunar New Year greetings with Hoo Kok Mun — one of my favorite student workers at TU…
It was a day like many others in Oklahoma — sunny and warm for winter, kinda like today. I’d come home from work for lunch — I was a newbie/recent college graduate masquerading as a Mutual Fund Salesman. Not making any money, so a tuna sandwich back at the college duplex rental was still the…