Sometimes I am amazed at how much cool stuff I learn one day’s newspaper. Below are random musings from a night flipping my eyes between Simon Cowell and Idol and the Wall St. Journal. In NYC’s Cooper Union college a new nine-story building is being built–with elevators that only stop […]
America’s military brass are surely on cloud nine tonight, as they gear up to use a $69 million toy to do something useful: blow up a spy satellite the size of a city bus. CBS news had a story on their website. The eye in the sky is named US […]
I’m nervous. I’m nervous because on Friday I am going to stand up in front of dozens of people in the travel business and make a speech. It won’t be a real speech, not like a politician speech, it will be a presentation. It will be about search engines and […]
Eric Felton writes about drinking, cocktails and ritual in the WSJ on the weekends. Today he taught me about Roman Punch. The tale is long, and goes way back to Dolly Hayes, the famous teet0talling first lady, who would serve no booze in the White House. “The water flowed like […]
I read a story in today’s Gazette about a massacre of cedar waxwings. It was a sad day at a local school when a flock of dozens of the songbirds crashed into large windows after being pursued by a hawk. Bill Danielson, who writes a column called “Speaking of Nature” […]
People continue to fascinate me, as I meet them on my travels and while going about our town spreading the word about the new Deerfield Attractions website. I met a man the other day over a beer who told me was in the security business. “What kind of security,” I […]
A few days ago, I read a story about a new rage in advertising: lickable ads. Like the famous scratch and sniff ads that are a staple of women’s magazines, getting consumers to use a different sense can make cents, it’s just well, licking a magazine to get a taste […]
Outside the deluge continues, with a ridiculous amount of rain piling up on a decent amount of snow to create a nightmare for anyone wearing leather shoes. I read deep into today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette to find a story about two clashing personalities at a recent public hearing for a […]
It’s been an exciting week, and it’s only Tuesday. I just returned from a tour of Habitat/American Barn’s offices, meeting designers who create plans for houses in their huge computer monitors and figure out how many boards they’ll need to build them. I was showing Dave the info. on the […]
It’s waiting time at Quebec City Airport, and the taxi ride here from the center city was, well you can call it ‘white knuckle.’ We sped over a snowy highway at 100 kph, the only solace is that this is just 70 mph, but the driver was cool as I […]
Last night after some down time in my room at the Hilton, we ventured back out into the cold to the famous Chateau Frontenac, now a Fairmont property, that is a one of Quebec City’s most famous landmarks. As we sipped Kir Frontenac, a signature drink created for the carnivale, […]
