The secret of Mormonism

By John Brown | September 30, 2017 - 9:35 pm |October 5, 2017 Blather

If you want to understand the secret to Mormonism, something 99.9% of the world does not know, even though many think they do, read on. This last Tuesday I was at dinner with a number of wonderful coworkers. We were talking about religion and listening to the guy who helps set up our training environments →

I’m done being Amazon’s fool

By John Brown | April 10, 2017 - 9:18 am |April 10, 2017 Blather

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Do you see this picture? This is Jeff Bezos laughing at John Brown. Because John Brown was a fool. Let me explain. When I sell my ebooks on Amazon for $2.99 to $9.99, Amazon charges me 30% of the price. I keep 70%. That’s a decent deal. I’m happy to do business with them as a →

A simple calculator for how much home you can afford

By John Brown | March 6, 2017 - 8:27 am |March 6, 2017 Blather

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It’s March. Spring is here in most places. And this is when the house hunting season starts to get rolling. I used to moonlight as a realtor. I started from nothing, ran my own little gig, and did very well. Then I got a book contract, and there was no way I could do three →

You vote: excerpt or full text?

By John Brown | December 28, 2016 - 10:01 am |December 28, 2016 Blather

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Readers, for the last year or so I’ve set the blog to show a summary of each post which you then click into as shown below. For the years before that I just showed the full text like you see now. I personally engage more with full text displays because I read as I scroll, →

Billenkoek

By John Brown | December 5, 2016 - 10:23 pm |December 5, 2016 Blather

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So I lived for almost two years in the Netherlands and Belgium and learned the Dutch language, which is full of delights. Today’s delight is billenkoek. Now koek means cake. A koekje (small cake) is a cookie. Boterkoek is butter cake, this delicious sweet, to-die-for Dutch version of shortbread. So what does billen mean? Back →