You Mean, We Won’t Be Rich Some Day?
What Eduardo Porter writes in today’s NY Times will disappoint many readers my age. He says that there will be much less money from our parents to inherit than we think. “While some forecasters still hope that the vast pool of wealth accumulated by the generations born in the first […]
Eric Suher is a Friend Again
It’s Sunday morning, and I’m typing at Rao’s Coffee a big coffeehouse in Amherst. I am seeing how these guys do it, so I can bring back some wisdom to my own little cafe. Last night I spoke cordially with an old nemesis: it felt great to be back in […]
Go Deep, Young Man, and Find It
Wendy Boswell is a genius who knows all about web stuff. Below is her advice on finding the “Deep Web,” with 500 times the amount of web pages catalogued by Google. “That’s one of the tricks you can use to find Invisible Web content – just put the word “database” […]
Wal-Mart Might be the Tipping Point for Organics
At the cafe, we buy all of the local papers, so today I browsed the Greenfield Recorder, and found a significant story about Wal-Mart. The headline ‘Wal-Mart Goes Organic,’ meant a tipping point will soon be reached. The stores are throwing their massive weight behind purchasing only wild-caught fish that […]
A Silver Vibrator to Drum Up Subscriptions
From the archives of Zinester, I found this interesting item about a new subscriber gift from a French magazine. Good Vibrations: When the December issue of Jalouse hit Paris newsstands Friday, it came polybagged with a gift that the publisher believes is a first in the industry: a silver-plated vibrator. […]
A Bright Kid Who You’d be Crazy Not to Hire
The interns who work with us a GoNOMAD are often quite successful when they leave us and move out of Amherst and into the real world. A few years ago, we had Amanda Denz as an intern. She was the best writer I’d seen of all the interns over the […]
Our Outdoor Cafe: What I’ve Always Hoped For
Random musings: Woke up early today, again, and padded downstairs to bake the quickbreads for the cafe. It feels great to offer banana bread and other homemade treats at the GoNOMAD Cafe. Since I arrive there at about 7 and stay until at least 7, I am pretty much working […]
Fox to Newscasters–Wear Red White and Blue
Believe it or not, the news anchors and reporters at the Fox-owned station WFLD Channel 32 were ordered by their boss to wear flashy clothes — preferably “red white and blue.” Robert Feder writes in today’s Chicago Sun Times. In an internal memo obtained by this column, Andrew Finlayson, the […]