Last night we went out on the town of Bethlehem, with our friends Trudy and Graham whom we’re visiting in their spacious new house in Northampton, PA. Like the other events across the US, First Night offers dozens of musical and comedy acts. We began in an old ice house […]
Debbie, known as De’Bella, has a day job as an administrative assistant in the sex business, but one day decided that she too wanted to get in front of the camera. She’s 50, and still looks pretty hot, so she now makes porn movies joining a large number of oldsters […]
Waking up early after a difficult night’s sleep. We are visiting dear friends down in Pelham Manor NY, and I’m up early with no one else around yet. I try to make some of the coffee I brought from the cafe, but can’t find the filters. You know the feeling […]
Oh that smarts! I’ve just experienced what retail business owners know all too well. Just when you’re happy and feeling like your staff is running like a well-oiled machine, something happens. Oh no, not that conversation. “I have to tell you something,” said Britt, my beloved cafe manager. “I’m going […]
Jason Miller writes on Web Pro news about the ultimate web merger and google killer. “How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Street’s approach to building an apt competitor […]
Up ridiculously early this morning, for some reason five am seemed like time to rise. Jumped on the laptop and read the Boston Herald…a truly scary tale of a man who built his dreamhouse 27 feet from high tension wires. The flourescent lights in the house were going on when […]
The January issue of Business West came by mail, thanks to the Chamber of Commerce whose members now get it free. Inside was a sad story similar to the New Coke disaster of 1985–The Spaulding Ball Bummer of 2006. Local company Spaulding introduced a new basketball to be used in […]
I got the news the other day that Gib Fullerton had passed away. Gib was the guy who hired me for my first newspaper job, back when the Valley Advocate was located in downtown Amherst. I remember applying for the job once, then not getting it, and coming back a […]
Arnold Schwartzeneger has become the most progressive and clear-headed governor on the environment. He was profiled by the Washington Post today. “This year he signed the nation’s first environmental law of its kind, committing the state to lowering its greenhouse gas production to 1990 levels by 2020 and setting up […]
We met the bespectacled Andreas in Goteborg, and enjoyed dinner with him and his wife Elin. He develops internet ad campaigns and one of them was fascinating, it was for an ice cream company. He showed us how a Swedish cellphone customer can send a tiny bar code to a […]
Today I took some wise advice from my sister Jenny. I wrote out cards to all of my employees and told them why I value them, and added some crisp bills to make it really feel good. You wanna know how to get into the Christmas spirit? Write cards and […]
Winging our way back home from Sweden, in this Airbus 330 I am able to recap all of the things this trip has inspired me to think about. In the internet and cafe business, you meet people and see ideas in action that make you think you should try them. […]