So, apparently Bobby Ginn, the not-in-ski-shape, yes-in-golf-shape developer of Minturn's Battle Mountain Luxury Ski Snobzone has stepped off the ski resort developer bus. The company that was crazy enough to finance him in the first place has taken over. Good thing, because that company is in Philly, which is a lot closer to Colorado than Ginn is in Florida.

Haven't heard much preseason hype this

  1. The news that Vail would require on-hill staff to lid-up came with a few surprises. First, Rob Katz didn't put his own name in bold with triple-exclamation points as having invented helmets, along with the way he invented environmental efforts and destination travel.

Instead, John Garnsey was allowed to take the lead and the argument for what the resorts are doing came across as if there was

 I was watching Colbert’s Threatdown with one eye this morning, and reading about industry execs trying to remain optimistic at MTS with the other. The media is always going to go for the alarm button, but it occurred to me to ask & see what some of the industry’s locals, brass and ex-brass thinks. What’s the biggest threat facing ski towns, or your ski town?

1. A struggling economy and that it

 1. ROBOTS ...Got to see Marshall Brain speak, he's the futurist who invented http://howstuffworks.com.

One of his soapbox items was: Our bodies are fragile, how long until we suck our brains out into a jar and let android bodies run around for us and just "feed" us the experience? The answer, never for most of us, but for some, it's already happening through video games, Facebook, and that

This has nothing to do with anything other than what I REFUSE to buy now:

 1 Bud Light - I'm switching f---ing beers. Never loved that yellow swill anyway, but it was better than others and priced OK. Now they have this commercial where some guy recommends not buying BL for every meeting, so they THROW HIM OUT A 4TH STORY WINDOW.

That's not funny, or clever, or anything, that's just an ad agency