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Author Archives: Tom Trimbath
Three Hundred Days Of Chromebook
Chromebooks are the new beginning. Or rather, the idea of a Chromebook is the new beginning. Just like many people xerox things without owning a Xerox, put things in the fridge without owning a Frigidaire, or Google things without using … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, Chromebook, goog, Microsoft, MSFT, MVIS, stocks
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Weeks End Evenings
“Have a nice weekend.” The person behind the cash register was more sincere than you may expect because this is an island and the small towns are our rural equivalent of the big city. It’s Friday night, after I post … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, cannabis, Cisco, consulting, entrepreneur, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, HCLE, health care, investing, Langley, Microvision, MVIS, photos, self publishing, social media, speaking, teaching, Whidbey, writing
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Dendreon Bankruptcy
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat path to your door. Cure cancer and everyone will cheer you. Dendreon didn’t cure cancer, but it did develop a cancer treatment that was better than the competition. In 2013 they … Continue reading
What A Difference A Quarter Teaspoon Makes
Listen to the news and it sounds like a dramatic week. Look around my house and the two most obvious events were a wind storm and I mowed the lawn. There was the chance for dramatic good news from MicroVision, … Continue reading
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Tagged cannabis, consulting, housing, investing, jobs, marijuana, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, Whidbey
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An Anniversary To Celebrate
It came on like lightning and has rumbled on like thunder echoing from the hills. Some forecast a storm, and at best, people found umbrellas when they actually needed an ark. In 2008, I started blogging. Barack Obama had just … Continue reading
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Tagged Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, health care, investing, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks, Whidbey, writing
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What I Can Do With An Eighth Of A Teaspoon
Thank you all for putting up with the joke about making a cup of tea from two bits of a marijuana bud. Total effect: I smiled because I got past everyone else’s anxieties and anticipations. This personal finance and amateur … Continue reading
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Tagged cannabis, frugal, frugality, Langley, marijuana, minimalism, personal finance, Simple Living, tea
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Four Trade Deals Ravaging the World
If economics are more important than politics, then trade deals are more important than treaties. Americans may (but probably don’t) know the Democratic and Republican (and Libertarian for even fewer) platforms. Americans that know WTO, TTP, NAFTA, and TPP are far … Continue reading
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What Can You Do With One Gram
What can you do with one gram of weed? You can start a lot of novel conversations. Getting my picture on the front page of the local paper (The bi-weekly South Whidbey Record) helped. Marijuana is legal in Washington State. … Continue reading
More Insufficient MicroVision News
MicroVision announces news! No, really. This time with numbers! Surely its stock (MVIS) will react. It certainly did last February. Surely October will be no different. Except it was. The life of small companies and small stocks are irrational, or … Continue reading
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Tagged investing, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, picoprojector, Sony, stocks
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Weed Arrives on Whidbey For Me
Promises, promises, and then success! How long have you been waiting for good news, of any size? Friday, October 24, 2014 at 11am, marijuana was finally for sale on Whidbey – legally, that is. Grand implications reverberate around the globe. … Continue reading
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