August has been coming on like gangbusters.

This sense of giddiness and playing in the wind that you see sometimes, I'm not sure that's appropriate in the aftermath of a story like this. That's not an appropriate way to cover natural disasters.

They may be worn out, over-used, mishandled, abused. It is a question of how reliable is the source you got it from. Unfortunately, that is not always a very safe bet.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

We normally don't cover such ceremonies at all. But this is certainly more than a local phenomenon. These are three of the biggest names in the league.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.