Why have there been no posts recently? Well, two reasons primarily. First, I rented an office that was a sublease. No revelation there, but there was a catch: the other tenants were architects and designers **who enforced a code of silence! No joke. I took one phone call and got a warning. After sitting in my car for two weeks, I decided I needed to move. And fortunately I found a nice office in the same cool office park. Artists, recording studios, Gibson guitar showroom. Cool.

But I said two reasons. The second is Yelp. Yelp is addicting because it is about places you know. And for me that means writing about restaurants. So I have been Yelping a good deal. And that has sapped some of my blogging mojo.

At the same time, I have been assembling our start-up quarters. As I was huffing in the toxic fumes of freshly made folding tables (from China), it got me to thinking that I need to create a checklist of things for you to buy for your startup (should you venture down that path). So I will do so shortly, and include some of my witty repartee that makes my writing so poorly structured. My writing is like one of those hidden pictures: if you read it out loud you can almost hear me saying it. And somehow it works! It’s how I speak normally, and you’ll see what I mean when I finally get those demo videos (remember that?) online.

Suffice it to say, none were produced in the “cone of silence”, but stay tuned!