GoNOMAD: Dining with Nomads in Iran
GoNOMAD: Dining with Nomads in Iran This is the kind of story you’ll find on our website. I love publishing stories like this!
Let’s let in the Good Guys and Kick out the Bad
This just in from the people who are cracking down on illegal immigrants, from AOL news:“We’re busy all the time,” says Jonathan Rust, chief of the Air Transportation Unit for ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security. “We have two (Boeing) 737s and two MD-83s, and […]
Killing Pablo
Picked up a fast-paced read the other day, my Valentine’s day present from Barnes and Noble. It is a book called Killing Pablo, about how the US government helped track down and kill Pablo Escobar, the most notorius Colombian drug cartel leader of all time. The story provides a glimpse […]
GM’s Two Billion Dollar Bargain
The Detroit News had a feature story about GM that illustrates part of why this behemoth company lost more than 2.6 billion since 2000. It has to do with not noticing that in Europe, diesel engines are the way of the future, even though back in 1999, they were just […]
Prepping for the Wall St. Journal
What’s hot in learning travel? The Wall Street Journal wanted to know. We got a call in our South Deerfield offices from Lara Naaman, who writes the Take offs and Landings column for the weekend Journal. We answered her after doing some research. Countries we think are the hottest destinations […]
Go On Make My Day–Comment!
Just read you don’t have to register for anything or sign up or give any email address to make a comment. So come on, if you read my blog and like it, hate it or have any feelings whatsoever GO AHEAD AND COMMENT, will ya?!
How he Paid for his Gates
Christo is in the news big time right now, after the newly opened installation of his 23-miles of orange gates with flowing orange curtains on top. The thousands of upside down ‘U’s circle New York’s Central Park, and have been on the drawing board since 1979. This new installation cost […]
Clean well done travel website
Pauline from Slowtrav.com chatted with me recently from Hawaii. We shared ideas about how to increase profits in the web business. I gave her a good idea…one that has generated a lot of money for other sites. airport parking. She said that her model was a subscription to membership in […]
How Badly They Wanna Get to Ikea
COPS battled to stop a RIOT last night at the opening of an IKEA furniture store. Dozens of officers were backed up by fire engines and ambulances as tempers raged in Edmonton, North London. One woman lost consciousness and many more were injured. Thousands turned up to grab special offers, […]
Channel 40 News in the Office
A guy from Connecticut wanted to buy tickets to see the Pats in the superbowl. He goes to eBay for the first time in his life. What luck! Some guy from Georgia was gonna go to the game, but he got transferred to Italy. He has the tickets up on […]
Super Bowl bling: Companies line up to tackle ring job
This article shows a fascinating close up photo of the 2003 ring worn by the Patriots after they won their last superbowl….the one before this sunday! Getting prepped to have TV cameras come to our GoNOMAD offices…going to be on TV on Friday, Channel 40 ABC news wants to discuss […]
Sounds like Some Party
Love it when the newspapers get fooled, probably by a blogger yet. From today’s Washington Post Styles section, courtesy of poynter.org, which is a great media insider site, if you like news about media… Correction A Feb. 5 Names & Faces item on an Evite to Michael Saylor’s birthday party […]
A Better Way to Spend the Money
Thomas Friedman is back with his regular column in the NY Times and puts forth this smart idea about the huge rewards being now DOUBLED for the capture of Bin Laden and al Zarqawi. He thinks there are much better ways to spend the money: What I would do with […]
Wedding Ring on the Sailfish
Today’s Miami Herald served up this gem. A Fort Lauderdale fisherman put his wedding ring around the bill of a sailfish that he caught off the Florida coast in 2002. And now he said he caught that same fish, complete with the ring around the bill! But everyone doesn’t believe […]
Dubya’s Numbers in Doubt
Visiting my daughter in Miami this weekend brought an opportunity to read the wonderful Miami Herald. This Knight Ridder stalwart is always full of interesting and well thoughtout reads. One front page story detailed how Social Security might not be in as bad shape as the Prez thinks. GWB’s figures, […]
Shrapnel Wounds
The Army is experimenting with a new form of anethesiology, using nerve blocks to keep pain signals from traveling to the brain, thus eliminating the need to provide mind numbing morphine in the operating room. Procedures can take place with the patients fully awake. This from the latest issue of […]
Outsourcing Europeans
There is a new way to outsource, use young rich Europeans who are on vacation, to fill the ranks of headset wearing telemarketers. With hundreds of employees yakking into headsets, Tecnovate’s New Delhi office looks like a typical Indian call center, except for one thing: Nearly 100 of these workers […]