I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Over the last few years, we've had a number of clients liquidate a portion of their stock portfolios and move it to real estate. Real estate has become an asset class with its own momentum, and it is natural for strategists to write about it.