Alessandra Stanley used to be a foreign bureau chief and high ranking reporter for the New York Times. Now she’s the TV critic, and Broadcasting and Cable magazine recently had fun looking back at the obscure yet precise literary references she loves to lard her columns with. Below are a […]
Watching television in the hotel. Laptop enabled, high speed connection, bright sunny day, out visiting customers on Nantucket island with Todd. So many friendly people out on this isle 29 miles at sea. Sun glinting off the water. The Sox game is on and James Taylor sang the national anthem. […]
We drove out to Hyannis to ferry across to Nantucket for a few days. The vehicle was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. A 2005 BMW 6 series, sharp and full of space age gadgets…like the navigation system that shows you the map of the road, even showed the ocean […]
Last night we came home after dinner at a Thai restaurant and turned on the Discovery Channel. A show about Antarctica called Blue Planet showcased the lives of the Emperor penguins, and their daily struggle to avoid becoming lunch for the fierce predators just below the ice. The beasts they […]
Sploid.com is a blog with tabloid headlines and a drudge-like look. The excerpt below is from a story from Yahoo about the new freedoms being enjoyed by formerly burka-clad women in Afghanistan. “Love Marriages” are becoming more common, though most are still arranged by parents for their kids. “Those who […]
Met Paul Shoul down at Spoleto’s in Northampton about six last night. Friday night crowd, Bob Paquette of WFCR News manning the bar. Next to Paul was Moira from Family Fun magazine, and Grace, who also works there. A bit after I got there up came David Sokol, hat pulled […]
Every morning I spend hours sifting through spam. So it made me feel great today to read this and see the mugshot of this Jason character, nailed for spam in VA. “Jaynes, 30, who was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world at the time of his arrest, […]
Eric Suher is a legend in Northampton, and this week got written up in Fortune Magazine. The piece dragged details I could have never learned in the five years I worked for him. He is a hard working successful entrepreneur, and has done great things for the city. “Suher may […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal teaches a new word…”Dendochronology.” That’s how you find out exactly how old your olde, olde house really is. A technician takes samples from your wood beams and counts and measures the rings to determine when the wood was harvested. Steve Nicklin bought a $750,000 old home […]
Broadband is marching along nicely. That is good because we feature so many photos and text on our website, GoNOMAD.com,. dialup connections take decades to load and people won’t wait politely…they’ll just leave. Here is a story from Travelmole.com, a good source of travel-related info that comes by email from […]
It could well be the cushiest title in all of journalism: no job description, nice office, good pay, and the resources of a rich corporation at your fingertips. You’re encouraged to write books and articles that tickle your fancy. The Washington Post’s Associate Editors have it made, writes Erik Wemple […]
A writer named Joshua Hartshorne submitted a new story to GoNOMAD. Here is a page from his blog. “Taipei is not as smoggy as some places (Beijing comes to mind), but it’s pretty nasty. I though St. Petersburg was bad, but there it’s more particulate matter floating in the air, […]