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Happy Thanksgiving Thought Experiment
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving posts are usually about counting our blessings and giving thanks. Steven Johnson compels us to consider this thought experiment: If your daily newspaper were published once-in-a-century, and it came out today, what would the...
Wishing Wisconsin Veterans – and All Vets – Happy Veterans Day!
Wisconsin Veterans enjoy recognition in the We Energies 2021 Cookie Book, Celebrating military service. My wife kicks off the holiday season every year with a trip to the ball park in Milwaukee for the We Energies Cookie Book. Every year we get multiple copies of a...
Facebook Privacy – FB likely knows way more about you than you think
Facebook privacy is a joke. From the first article gifted below: Facebook is so big, it has persuaded millions of other businesses, apps and websites to also snoop on its behalf. Even when you’re not actively using Facebook. Even when you’re not online. Even,...
Happy Labor Day with some Labor Day History
Happy Labor Day! Labor Day, observed the first Monday in September, is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century when labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to...
Independence Day Fireworks courtesy of Patrick Henry
Independence Day fireworks are a staple of our 4th of July celebrations. The real *fireworks* started with the founders of our country, the 'radicals' of the 1770s American Revolution. Patrick Henry was among the most radical. Henry did *not* approve of the United...
Memorial Day 2021 – Please Remember & Honor
Happy Memorial Day 2021. A reminder - Memorial Day honors those who died while serving in our military. Veteran's Day honors all veterans. Armed Forces Day honors those presently serving. Our family will garden and barbecue on Memorial Day Weekend. That includes...
Happy Easter 2021! Where can we see the Risen Jesus?
Happy Easter 2021 ~ Where do we see the Risen Jesus? The temptation in our modern world is to look for proof and evidence with 21st century eyes. The Easter stories were not written for that kind of evidence. We are told there is an empty grave and someone - we...
OnYourMark 30 Second Commercial
OnYourMark 30 Second Commercial updated March 25, 2021. We do a lot. Mainly web design and internet marketing. The gist - in 30 Seconds - in in our OnYourMark 30 Second Commercial. For a better look at the breadth and depth of our services, please click on the...
Happy New Year 2021! Great to put 2020 in hindsight!
Happy New Year 2021, everyone! The expression "we all have 2020 hindsight" is a favorite since childhood. Now it's great to say "we all have 2020 in hindsight." To paraphrase our friend Paul Haut, at W. Haut Specialty Co., between the virus pandemic, the election,...
Merry Christmas 2020
Merry Christmas 2020 Dear Friends, It’s December, and the end of the year cannot come soon enough. 2020 definitely has been a year that we won’t forget. The pandemic, the election, the stock market, social unrest, all in one year. Masks… I am tired of wearing a mask....
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