Eddie Farr

I don't know if I ever filled out a poll. Why would I? It's the same reason I try not to read SPAM email or listen to SPAMcalls (is that a word?). I thought it was bad enough to have Polls use telephones to reach potential poll-people, but now they use the internet to poll people. The people who take polls are NOT the average person. NO way! The average person is too busy to waste there time answering inane questions. I know that's true because I took a poll. 100% of the people in my room here said they  don't have time for polls. However, 100% of them have made time to write about the taking of polls. If you're like me and you're walking down the street and you see someone with a clipboard, you turn away, pretend to be busy, or just plain ignore them. The last Presidential election proved the worthlessness of polls. But everyday, we hear more polls. I did another poll, and it said 76% of all statistical polls are made up on the spot (I know! That's no...

If our government representatives would get there heads out of their behinds they'd make automated phone calls and texts illegal. That's not going to happen because that's anti-business I guess. I remember the spam complaints  from 30 years ago. You'd sit down for dinner and you knew the call would come in from the telemarketer. That seems so quaint now. It would actually be a person on the line trying to sell you something. How many SPAM automated phone messages do you get now, every day? I think I average about 5. But now it's also turning into text spams. I feel like I'm being violated in quite disturbing ways. And email. I stopped buying from Walmart.com because of the SPAM, and Amazon has pushed it right to the limit and 2 steps beyond. It obviously works or they wouldn't do it. Could you imagine actually listening to one of those automated calls and then saying "oh yes, I was meaning to get a loan from a random phone message." I can...

The evidence suggests the climate is changing But maybe you just don’t agree With all those really smart people Or you didn’t look at the data yourself So let’s skip all the sciency stuff and get right to the point Pollution is bad We should stop it as fast as we can Blowing off mountaintops for coal Doesn’t seem like a good idea at all. Throwing trash into the sea. Seems kind of dumb to me You may think that climate change is just a hoax Maybe it is, but I’ll tell you this folks Pollution is bad We should stop it as fast as we can. Air Pollution:  It used to be ozone. The world did a good job of reducing that.  Now it's carbon dioxide Smog Acid rain (both air and water issue) Land Pollution: Water Pollution:  And then there's coal: it's air,water, land pollution all in one.  Coal appears to have been a good energy source 200 years ago when that's all we had. But is it still? "When coal mines move in...

Where do you find new music? There's a lot of  options. As a new artist, I'm trying them all. But it's a lot of work! I can't be on all these sites or I won't have anytime for music! Where you can find us if you already know we exist: Our website cdbaby, where we sell our music Places you might be able to discover us or other non-radio, non Pandora, non Apple sponsored good music. But it's a challenge. YouTube Facebook Do you have alternative ideas?

Are American companies losing the battle because of customer service? Here’s the story. I wanted to make some simple plastic parts. They are for a fish kit where you put together different shapes to make your own lure. The shapes are part of a kit where people can make their own lures. Cool project. We've been making the shapes ourselves for a year, but we wanted to make thousands of them so we needed an industrial process. Usually that means injection molding. First, to make sure my design was good, I had it printed at Shapeways, a 3D printing company. The part cost $12 to make plus $6 shipping, which is fine for a prototype. The sample looked awesome. Better than I anticipated.   Then I went online found several American companies to quote the cost to make 3,000, 5,000, and 10,000 parts. My initial quotes were so ridiculous I thought I was going to have to give up the job. First, instead of just telling me how much it would cost, the companies came back with lots of random ...