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We woke up to snow this morning, gently falling and covering the cars in the driveway. Damn! Why didn’t we remember to put them into the garage?! One of life’s pleasures: watching snow fall and seeing that your car is snug and dry in the garage! Hanging out here by […]

What’s New in Advertising? Integrated Marketing…Web Pro News’ Rich Ord has the story today… “Microsoft won last night’s episode of The Apprentice hands down. In today’s TiVo happy world content integrated marketing is the future and we all better get used to it. Not just for TV either. Tonight’s episode […]

I’ve tried to avoid becoming overwhelmed by this big, long expensive process of creating the GoNOMAD Cafe. I’ve been warned not to get drawn too far away from my essential knitting, that is, our website and computer cleaning businesses. But the cafe business is tempting, and will bring us many […]

Ahh the things you can find out while trolling the ‘Net. According to various British news media reports, the crew of the fishing boat “Oceania”, out of the town of Blyth, blocked emergency radio frequencies for hours while they watched an erotic film on their shipboard television. Unfortunately, the crew […]

Why did we jump headlong into supporting a war in Iraq? Bob Norman of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times lists his top five co-conspiracists who made us believe in the cause. *Thomas Friedman: “He’s like a mouse on a sinking ship, running from nook to nook as the water comes […]

Once again the pace is picking up here at the Computer Cleaners/GoNOMAD office. We’ve committed to moving four buildings up, to an old fashioned storefront with big bay windows, space for five public computers, more desks, more storage, and parking in the back. We are going to open the GoNOMAD […]

Barbara Walters has transcended the role of television show host to that of an icon, a decider….now that she has retired, we only see her on special occasions, like last night. She presented the top ten most fascinating people….and made us wait until the very end to know that her […]

Iowa’s rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation’s most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O’Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting corpses. {Associated Press} “A biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern Iowa, O’Brien envisions turning some prime Iowa pasture into a […]

Chicago Magazine ran a profile on a writer who is often more famous than his movie star subjects, Roger Ebert. Here’s a bit about the olden daze. “After work, the gathering place in those days was a bar called O’Rourke’s, a hangout with the look of a shabby Irish pub. […]

Just weeks after voters struck down plans for a new monorail, a design glitch and a communication mishap immobilized the old one. Seattle’s PI reported today. Like conjoined twins, the Red and Blue trains remained frozen on the track above Fifth Avenue and Olive Way after the two sideswiped each […]

The following cautionary tale must surely rate in the top five of “most embarrassing things that can happen to you in public – ever”. According to UK tabloid the Sun, a 33-year-old Welsh housewife ended up in hospital after wearing Ann Summers vibrating Passion Pants to her local Asda supermarket […]

Putawapi Chile. photo by Paul Shoul 

Columnist Neil Steinberg just lived through the ultimate publicity and personal nightmare: He got drunk, slapped his wife, and ended up in jail and in rehab. His Chicago Sun-times come-back column promised he’d pull no punches, sober or not. “Some readers expressed concern that sobriety will wreck my acerbic view […]

Edward Wasserman is Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. He wrote a commentary in the Miami Herald today about the newspaper business and other doomed species. “The Internet does threaten some revenue franchises, especially classifieds. But it also offers a new way to reach audiences by […]

My smiling little grandson Nathan. 

Five years ago, Virginia Metcalf Merida, 51, won the Powerball jackpot lottery. She told the press after she won the $65.4 million prize that she was going to quit her job making corrogated boxes, and buy a house. Her husband, a forklift operator, wanted to quit too, and make a […]

It’s unusual in the history of disaster relief: today NY Times’ Stephanie Strom writes about the surplus facing the NGOs who raised more than $1.3 million after last December’s Tsunami. “From our point of view, this is like dying and going to heaven,” said Charles MacCormack, president of Save the […]

”People come in the door and can’t get a car loan and can’t get a cosigner,” Doucette said. ”What do I tell them, to go get a bus pass? We’re in a tough economy. People don’t have a lot of money. They need cars.” Doucette was explaining a new device […]