Greenland Story In this Week’s Advocate
Life as a cafe and website owner is exciting. You never know who’s gonna call or who is going to pop into the cafe. We have been sweating it out with our transition to a new improved web hosting service that has caused us some downtime and hairpulling, but we […]
Slackers Can Hide, from the Waist Down
Darren Garnick writes in today’s Boston Herald about how slackers can look like big shots…at least from the waist up….if they need to sit in front of a videocamera at a teleconference. Enter the Businessbib. “Think paper dolls without the pants. The “Bib” is a Velcro-enclosed half-suit meant to be […]
Luggage Lost: It’s a Slippery Slope
It only gets worse for travelers, according to today’s NY Times. Luggage is being lost and it is hard for the airlines to catch up. “Since Aug. 10, when a ban on most carry-on liquids sent the amount of checked luggage soaring, airlines have been misplacing many more bags, and […]
Bradley Was a Symbol of Sunday Nights
“I’m Ed Bradley. I’m Morley Safer. I’m Lesley Stahl with another edition of Sixty Minutes. ” If anything in my life symbolizes Sunday nights, those words surely do. We heard this week about the passing of Ed Bradley, the lone black man among the legendary 60 Minutes crew, the guy […]
Slipping and Sliding down Sisimiut’s Roads
People in Greenland don’t let the cold stop them from living their active, busy lives. Children in daycare trundle out of the classroom into the playground, sliding down hills and enjoying time in the snow. Men ride by on bicycles, and most of the people walk rather than drive. Since […]
Take Her, She’s Yours for the Night
It feels great to be back home in my own office at the gonomad cafe. With my luxuriously large double monitors, my reliable fastinternet connection, and the fast paced energy of the cafe out front. Kent is off on another voyage, this time to Sydney and Tahiti, soon the old […]
At Nuuk’s Barista Web Cafe, a Chance to Catch Up
We are comfy in an internet cafe called Barista in downtown Nuuk. This little cafe with 36 computers has excellent lattes and upstairs the computers are all arranged four to a table with the flat screens facing out on all four sides. I am more than a bit flumuxed over […]
A Plea for Sealskins in Greenland
We have reached the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, population 15,000. Wohoo! We were impressed with all of the large buildings as we drove from the airport to the city center. Then upon arrival we were wisked off to a reception where the featured entertainment was one of Greenland’s top pop […]