Up late at night on Cindy’s couch, after watching two TV shows about 9/11. The first was a documentary made by two French brothers about the life of a rookie firefighter, that coincided with the attacks and put them in the lobby of the tower as the fireman frantically tried […]
I bicycled down into the Holyoke flats tonight. I began my bike jaunt up in the Holyoke highlands, these are leafy suburbs with nice old homes and people out front doing yard work. There was a nip in the air, it definitely isn’t August any more. I rode down, further […]
Last night we went out in South Deerfield. That’s kind of unusual, as there is not that much going on in our little burgh. But since I had bought an ad in the program, we decided to go and see the Uncommon Player’s production of ‘Losing Patients.’My daughter Kate and […]
Today I read some more of the new issue of Wired, the cover story is about the changing face of music. As usual, Wired says it bluntly: “Radio sucks, the labels are lame. Now Bands are taking over–and fans are getting what they want.” There is an interview with the […]
Fall is in the air this morning, it was a bit cloudy as I rode my bike down Sugarloaf Street en route to the cafe. I woke up later than usual, it was nice not to rush out. I got a chance to spend some time with my grandson Nathan, […]
Christina Uss writes in the Republican Weekend edition about the 104-mile rail trail, that will someday connect Boston with the Valley. It’s a struggle all right, since the hurricane in 1938 that scuttled the rails that put the Mass Central out of business, and left the tracks to rot. Over […]
Today we recieved a big box from espresso parts.com, they had sent us some new china cups and some cute little espresso spoons. We are glad that now we can finally offer customers real china cups to sip from. But the part that amazed me was that the box was […]
Wired magazine’s Charles C. Mann writes about Splogs in the September issue. A grim tally: more than half of the 10 million blogs in creation are actually these fake blogs, using snippets of unintelligible text scraped from legitimate blogs and books, just there to reap click through revenues from Google […]
Tidbits from a day on the web and at the cafe: The Scotsman reports today about an uproar caused by a job center in Edinburgh that has advertised a job as a lapdancer as a city nightclub. The job description states that the successful applicant will have to perform duties […]
Today we visited another internet cafe in Ulster County NY. This one was light filled and airy, and was called Jack and Luna’s cafe. They served a breakfast panini, which feels like a way to charge much more for a grilled version of our egg sandwich that we sell at […]
I met my friend Todd Adelson yesterday, he was kind enough to bring me my new order of embroidered shirts for GoNOMAD. He zoomed up to meet me in a white Porsche, (a silver one is seen here), one of the nicest, fastest and coolest cars you can buy. I […]
