BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! I’m Backing Up
Across the street at 7 am, BEEP BEEP BEEP! the men arrived again with their big machines. A flatbed groaning with the weight of a small paving machine, and an enormous roller all on our 12 foot wide little street…barely any room for another car to pass by. Seven men […]
Tags, The Way People Find Out About Your Blog
Tagging is a buzzword among bloggers and the technorati crowd. I am trying desperately to grasp what this is, but it has something to do with subjects that people are blogging about, and identifying ones blog with these tags so that people know that the subject they care about is […]
Shopping Bag Annie’s Last Stand at Fulton
Today’s NY Times includes a story about the relocation of the Fulton Fish Market to the Bronx, and includes this description of some of the people who work there by Dan Barry. “Some lights of the market stand before the silvery truck of a man who calls himself Steve the […]
What? You Don’t Wanna Renew? We’ll See About That!
Wired magazine, the bible of the tech set, may have its finger on the pulse of all that’s cool. But the San Francisco publication has been using decidedly uncool tactics when it comes to getting some people to renew their subscriptions. Here is one former subscriber’s story, from sfgate.com First […]
I May Not Use It…But It’s My Right to Have It
Nicholas Kristof writes in today’s NY Times about the legality of assisted suicide. “Mr. Newbold has started the process of obtaining the barbiturates; two doctors must confirm that the patient has less than six months to live, and the patient must make three requests over at least 15 days. Typically, […]
TV Show Dreams Never Die
Everyman’s typical summer Saturday: Errands, dump run, and acres of lawn to be mowed. Glad to have that behind me, now back to the really important stuff. GoNOMAD’s nascent foray into television is back. We had some exciting ideas back in February and they have been percolating, laying dormant waiting […]
Can We Get the ‘Net from The Outlet?
Ryan Block blogs about a new buzzword; delivering broadband over power lines. Listen up, Google’s sick of you slowing up their operations with your dialup service, making their servers wait around to send the results of the 800 searches you each perform every day. So they’re stepping it up by […]
Like Swimming in a Giant Hot Bath
Swimming inside the thermal cave baths in Hungary….89 warm degrees….nice! This photo is by Alberto Paredes, he has a photo gallery of more images on GoNOMAD.
A Stepstool for the "Flat World Train."
Thomas Friedman’s book “The World is Flat,” merits many more excerpts. Toward the end of the book, he ponders how to include the more than three billion people who have never used a computer, dialed a cellphone, nor reaped any of the benefits of this flat new world, and subsist […]
Cellphone Chatting How Annoying
John Leland writes in the NY Times this week about cellphone etiquette, or lack of it. “In the great American debate about cellphone etiquette, some of the early turf battles seem to be settled, with winners and losers falling into camps familiar from Western Civ classes. Movie theaters, funerals and […]
The Lure of Chile
Pablo Retamal and I have been talking about Chile. He is the director of Tourism, based out of Washington, and he sent me a CD with Chilean music, and many images of the country showing vast expanses of desert, steep ski slopes, vineyards, bikini-clad gals, more mountains, flyfishermen and glasses […]
Watch Out, Warden!
Jim Shea writes in the Harford Courant: “Here are just a few of the reasons why it’s not a good idea to be sending reporters to the Big House: Order: Reporters would not set a good example when it comes to following directions. You can’t just tell them what to […]
At $48K Per Week, He’s Just Average
Eric Dash writes in today’s NY Times about a new hire at MSDW “John J. Mack, who was named Morgan Stanley’s chairman and chief executive last Thursday, has agreed to a five-year contract that will pay him as much as $25 million a year for the next year and a […]
Wind Power Means Death to Eagles
Found on Drudge report today, news about windfarm hazards. “A California Energy Commission study estimated wind turbines in the Altamont kill 881 to 1,300 birds of prey a year, including as many as 116 federally protected golden eagles. Miller said the county could impose conditions that would cut bird deaths […]
The Bodacious Babes of Latvia
‘Becca Blond in Latvia’ is the name of a blog by a Lonely Planet guidebook editor who is traveling in Latvia. Below is an excerpt from her trip journal from the first days of their trip. “I give up on sleep, decide instead to pick out an outfit to wear […]