Archive for the ‘All TheWoodChips’ Category


Missing Chips? Blame Stock Market For Beginners

You may have noticed a slowdown in the number of WoodChips newsletters the past two months.  I typically shoot for publishing the newsletter two to four times a month.  Lately it’s been more toward the two times a month publication frequency. This is because I’ve been busy writing my latest book Stock Investing For Beginners.  I have [...]

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Please Stop Flying Your Private Jets

For all you readers out there that have been flying around in your private jets, please stop at once. We are being advised from the highest political levels that you are destroying our economy — please see our press photo above of a recent presidential speech from HealthcAir Force One (Air Force One) concerning extravagant [...]

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Debt Crisis, Dunkin Donuts and Football

WoodChips football expert J. Schmidbauer advises me that the football season is upon us and thank God for that.  I think you’ll all agree after the past couple of months we could use a break. It has been positively stressful lately.  We’ve  faced numerous simutaneous crises such as  1) a football strike, 2) inability to invest [...]

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Cloud Computing – Take II

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Have You Got An ID?

There isn’t much crime in the WoodChips Forest so DeadWood, who has a really cool Holly Davidson Unicycle, serves as the volunteer police.  Most of his crime fighting activity is pulling people over for speeding.  He just pulled Mimosa over and she seems a bit confused by his question.

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Cloud Computing – What The #%@! Is It?

I keep hearing more and more these days about cloud computing, a rather vaporous term that is hard to get a solid grip on. As best I can tell computing has arrived at such an advanced, cheap and reliable state that we no longer need to worry about it.  We can throw our computers and software [...]

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Don’t Believe The Demise Of American Exceptionalism

A lot is being made of the demise of America and the decline of American exceptionalism these days.  All I seem to hear about are things like defaulting on our 14 trillion dollar debt, the destruction of our currency, the last space shuttle flight and rumored price increases at Starbucks. This just goes to show [...]

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4th of July Independence Day and Canada Day

Seems like the WoodChips are getting all geared up for the 4th of July.  They’re getting ready to lght up a big rocket from Cape Canopy, Florida.  That’s their Cape Canaveral.  They are hoping their fireworks can be seen all the way north to Canada. So depending on which side of the border you live on, [...]

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TMA – Too Many Acronyms

Don’t you just hate it when people use too many acronyms in a meeting? I swear, the meetings I attend these days are nothing but acronyms – which makes them incredibly hard to understand. One of the worst fields for acronym abuse is IT (Information Technology – i.e. Computers) whose name is even an acronym.  [...]

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A Brief History Of WoodChip Golf

Many WoodChips enjoy a round of golf today, but are unaware their game was much different in the distant past as it evolved from the primordial Forest to modern times.  The history of WoodChip golf can be broken down into roughly three major periods, these being the early Paleogolfic, the Mezzogolfic, and the Contempogolfic, or modern [...]

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