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SEATTLE FREEZE WARMS TACOMA

February 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Seattle Freeze in February isn’t about the weather. It’s not about the weather in July or August, either. If it’s not freezing weather, then what is it? Attitude, a chilly attitude.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Amazon, beer, belgium, boeing, culture, English, English culture, English explorers, high tea, history, identity, logging town, london, microsoft, non-fiction, northwest, pacific northwest, paris, philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, seattle freeze, seattle identity, Tacoma, travel, west coast, writer, writing

Microsoft, Amazon, Shocks World With Alexa, Cortana. Houston Next?

August 30, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Companies with arguably the most sophisticated logistics in the world, the top supply chain to feed demand for their life changing products, Amazon and Microsoft have joined each other at the only possible place: your brain. They should connect over Hurricane Harvey and Houston next. But first, these business behemoths agreed to let Alexa […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: adidas, alexa, Amazon, American A-team, Bill Gates, billionaire brigade, cajun navy, collaboration, Communication, cooperation, cortana, economic force, elon musk, facebook, gates-buffett-bezos, houston texas, hurricane harvey, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, microsoft, Nike, rich guys, Seattle, warren buffett

SPACE NEEDLE BECOMES LAMP POST IF SEATTLE GROWS THE WRONG DIRECTION

July 21, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Reading right to left the image of Seattle changes from working port town Seattle to big league sports town Seattle to gorgeous big-city-over-water skyline Seattle, the equal to any world center. And then the forgotten Space Needle. There it is all by itself on the left. Alone. Can we finally agree? Seattle is […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: Amazon, amazon.com, denny tiangle, facebook, microsoft, Paul Allen, Seattle, seattle space needle, south lake union, space needle, vulcan

SEATTLE WORKS HARD FOR THE TOP SPOT

July 17, 2017 by David Gillaspie

A money man gave me the short history of how important places draw the right people to them, how they work. In the emerging Industrial Revolution world London was the center of the universe. Anyone with dreams and aspirations of being somebody, of one day being The Man, moved to London. Things changed […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: Amazon, Baby Boomers, Bill Gates, industrial revolution, london, microsoft, millennials, New York City, over achievers, Paul Allen, Seattle, seattle skyline, seattle works, vulcan, wwi, WWII

STATES ON THE PODIUM FOR AN OREGON BLOG ABOUT NOTHING

May 2, 2017 by David Gillaspie

These states read a blog about nothing. Is yours on it? The biggest problem with people coming to America is they show up without a good grip on their new place. How can anyone expect immigrants and refugees to know American states? Some of them come running for their lives. They’ve been on the track […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: about nothing, am writing, Amazon, American shores, American states, Bill Gates, blog, blog about, blog about nothing, blog map, blog readers, blogger territory, boomerpdx blogger, boomerpdx writer, democrat, domestic tranquility, Google analytics, hacker, immigrants, Jeff Bezos, microsoft, nick huzar, offerup, Oregon, OREGON BLOG, oregon blog readers, oregon blogger, oregon readers, President Nixon, refugees, republican, single writer, single writer blog, social code, world peace, writer, writing

BIG MONEY MEANS BIG EDUCATION?

November 25, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Learn how to use Big Money. Rich guys are smart guys. If you learned that in school, you might be rich, too. What if you got rich another way? That’s when you you slide up on smart people and ask, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” The joke is pretty funny, but not […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Jeff Bezos, Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett, betsey Devos, Bill Gates, boomer blogger, facebook, Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, microsoft, Microsoft Bill Gates, Oracle, Oracle Larry Ellison, Oregon, OREGON'S BOOMER BLOGGER, warren buffett

FACEBOOK FRIENDS: A WHO’S WHO

June 23, 2016 by David Gillaspie

All Facebook friends are not created equal. Vanity Fair loves Facebook. Who doesn’t? Can a billion people a day be wrong? Or maybe they’re cuddling up to Mark Zuckerberg, The Man, The Face, of Facebook. Understandable if they are. He is one of the big biggies of the online world. His is the biggest face […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, animal kindness, Baby Boomers, boomers, Brenda Tracy, calm lifestyle, connected world, control freaks, facebook, friends, google land, Google+, healthy living, linkedin, love facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, microsoft, military memories, new friends, online world, Social media, social network, vietnam veterans, WWII veterans

BRIGHT NEW BUILDINGS FOR MODERN BUSINESS

April 9, 2014 by David Gillaspie

Portland’s South Water Front Isn’t The Only Place Looking Good. The big boys are building in spite of the economic news. Names tell the story. Names like Morgan Stanley. The growth in this Tempe, Arizona neighborhood looks like something out of a Chinese city of the future. Both use a Field of Dreams plan: Build […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, BOOMER, microsoft, morgan stanley, phoenix, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, portland's south water front, tempe, tempe town lake