Tossing and Turning the Night Before…As Usual
At three am, I tossed in my bed, almost knocking Mamacat off her perch nestled there at my feet. I have had this date seared into my mind for months; now it’s time to drive to Boston and speak to a crowd. I toss and turn worrying about what I’m […]
How Important Is a Soup Label? Very!
How important is a soup can label? Important enough that Campbell’s soup spent two years studying the ‘neuromarketing’ of how people decide to buy soup. A story in yesterday’s WSJ by Ilan Brat dove into the details of how to tweak a label to nudge up sales. Illustrations showed the […]
Water Piped Between High Circuits Makes Holyoke Sense
Phew! I am sitting at the end of the day in the window of the cafe. A familiar spot. My cafe acquaintance Paul told me some of what he knows about the Holyoke High Performance Computing Center that’s coming soon. He said in his government office they use water that […]
Chatroulette: The Anti Facebook Future of the Web
I love to make predictions. I have been reading about a new website that is becoming very popular on college campuses. Some have even wrote that this new idea will someday eclipse the gargantuan that is Facebook. It’s so simple, it’s hard to believe that nobody has thought of it […]
Flight Attendants Don’t Have As Many Free Flights
For our Valentine’s day afternoon, a workout at the Y and a movie were in order. I was feeling a bit under the weather as a result of something I ate on Saturday in Mexico, so we lay low and enjoyed an inside day, with the exception of the Y. […]
Dinner with Journalists, Sharing World Views
I dined last night at a table full of journalists, in an exciting city, with plenty of wine and unusual food–the kind of setting that I yearn for. The reach of the conversation was fascinating; the topic was mainly this fabulous country–Mexico. I’ve learned over the years to cherish these […]
On the Balcony Watching the Moving Chairs
However short this trip is, it was fine with me to spend the day looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from my seventh floor perch here at the NH Hoteles. When I checked in, they strapped a wristband on me that’s provided me with Coronas and food for the […]
The Timeshare Salesman Jokes with New Clients
I sat at the breakfast table with a view of the azure sea, and right beside me sat a man facing a portly couple, both looking at a form he wanted them to fill out. What else was he doing but selling a timeshare, the leading business of this, the […]