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Author Archives: Tom Trimbath
Super Bowl Ads 2023
Disclosure: This year’s review is possibly the snarkiest. That’s just my honest reaction. Well, that was a pile of nothing much. Since 2015 (and maybe earlier), I’ve carved out some time to watch and comment on many of the Super … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisers, advertising, consumer, consumption, frugal, frugality, investing, personal finance, stocks, Super Bowl, wealth
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For Want Of A Nut – A Zwilling Nut
For want of a nut a pair of poultry shears sat in my kitchen drawer. It had to live somewhere, and that had been its home, even though it was useless, now. But maybe they could be fixed. I didn’t … Continue reading
I Had A Plan
I had a plan. I had a plan to write about one thing based on What The F…, then I answered a Spam Call (I answer Spam Calls) that made me want to write about “Having Fun With Spammers, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., ElectraMeccanica, frugal, frugality, GERN, Geron, investing, LCTX, Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, portfolio, Solar Window, SOLO, stocks, wealth, WNDW
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GAIA – One Company One Story
Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series.This time, Gaia (previously known as Gaiam). Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am not … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative lifestyle, frugal, frugality, GAIA, Gaiam, investing, personal finance, Real Goods, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, stocks, sustainability
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Fifteen Dollar Movies
Just a bit of fluff, or is it? How much are movies at mega-multi-plexes? Pardon me as I try to remember the previous time I was brave to go to a Big Theater, instead of my local one-screen, one-showing per … Continue reading
SciFi Collaboration
Earlier this week I gave a presentation at a local library (Freeland Library, part of Sno-Isle Libraries) about writing science fiction, and then collaborating for sequels based on my book, Firewatcher. This post is about that possibility of collaborating with … Continue reading
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Tagged author, Cascadia, Firewatcher, Freeland, frugality, Island Arts Council, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, science fiction, scifi, Sno-Isle, Whidbey, writing
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Why Meet The Author
Meet the author? Hey, that’s me on the poster. Freeland Library is holding a ‘meet the author event’ and this time the author is me. Why meet me? That’s a straight line that branches into so many jokes that I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, collaborations, Firewatcher, Public Speaking, Rob Schouten, science fiction, self publishing, talks, Whidbey Island, writing
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Popular Posts 2022
Another year. Another period of posting; but the ten most popular posts are all from before 2022. Why? MicroVision. MicroVision’s 2021 was such a story that it dominated this blogs traffic, including previous years’ MicroVision posts as people researched the … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, health care, health insurance, healthcare, HoloLens, housing, inventions, investing, Mental Health, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, Re-retirement, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, stocks, sustainability, tidal power
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2022
Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2022 For those who have never encountered my semi-annual portfolio exercise I’ll quote myself. “Here’s my semi-annual exercise to see if I remember why I own the stocks I own, and so I can check back … Continue reading
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Cars Cameras Computers Change
Hunting for safe conversation topics for the holidays? It’s been a weird year, but maybe too weird with too many controversies. The holidays are about tradition, remembering supposedly simpler times. Simpler or not, change is happening. Arguably change is accelerating. … Continue reading
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Tagged cameras, cars, computers, digital singularity, driveless cars, electric cars, future, history, Kodak, pollution, prognostication, Tesla
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