By David Himmel

• Signed names at the bottoms of emails are wholly ridiculous. We all know you didn’t scribble your name into an email. It’s a computer, it’s okay. Save the image space.

 • I was asked this week whom, if I could choose anyone, I would like to have dinner with. My answer was three-fold: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, my wife, Lee Harvey Oswald. As a bonus, if I can be so greedy, someone who doesn’t end sentences with prepositions like “with.”

• No way around it. This opinion is fact: Kenny Loggins is awful.

• I am convinced that my greatest failure is that I have far too many interests.

• Sometimes, the best way to operate is to avoid all self-awareness. It gets you out of your way so you can do what needs doing.

• There will never be enough time to read all the books, listen to all the records, or finish all the work. Try to do it as best you can.