I took a break after cooking dinner (a rarity my daughter often points out) and came downstairs to read the Guardian UK on the ‘net. A story about how a family chemically caused their paralyzed 9-year old daughter to stop growing up caught my eye. “The cause of the controversy […]
A few nights ago I found a documentary on public television about the Gloucester fishing business. The story portrayed several of the members of the communitie’s fishing families, who have struggled in recent years as catches have declined, and the federal government has had to step in. In the late […]
Today is the big day, or should I say, the small day for the Wall Street Journal. In a bid to gain ‘younger readers’ they’ve slimmed down the paper, knocking 3 1/2 inches off papers gargantuan width. Gordon Crovitz, the publisher, said that focus groups indicated that this made the […]
Memories are fickle. I found this out twice when I thought I’d just easily increase my computer’s RAM by adding two new 1 Gig sticks. Easy enough, right? Just unscrew the case and pop out the lighter ones, then put in the new ones and feel the surge of power. […]
Last night we went out on the town of Bethlehem, with our friends Trudy and Graham whom we’re visiting in their spacious new house in Northampton, PA. Like the other events across the US, First Night offers dozens of musical and comedy acts. We began in an old ice house […]
Debbie, known as De’Bella, has a day job as an administrative assistant in the sex business, but one day decided that she too wanted to get in front of the camera. She’s 50, and still looks pretty hot, so she now makes porn movies joining a large number of oldsters […]
Waking up early after a difficult night’s sleep. We are visiting dear friends down in Pelham Manor NY, and I’m up early with no one else around yet. I try to make some of the coffee I brought from the cafe, but can’t find the filters. You know the feeling […]
Oh that smarts! I’ve just experienced what retail business owners know all too well. Just when you’re happy and feeling like your staff is running like a well-oiled machine, something happens. Oh no, not that conversation. “I have to tell you something,” said Britt, my beloved cafe manager. “I’m going […]
Jason Miller writes on Web Pro news about the ultimate web merger and google killer. “How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Street’s approach to building an apt competitor […]
Up ridiculously early this morning, for some reason five am seemed like time to rise. Jumped on the laptop and read the Boston Herald…a truly scary tale of a man who built his dreamhouse 27 feet from high tension wires. The flourescent lights in the house were going on when […]
The January issue of Business West came by mail, thanks to the Chamber of Commerce whose members now get it free. Inside was a sad story similar to the New Coke disaster of 1985–The Spaulding Ball Bummer of 2006. Local company Spaulding introduced a new basketball to be used in […]
I got the news the other day that Gib Fullerton had passed away. Gib was the guy who hired me for my first newspaper job, back when the Valley Advocate was located in downtown Amherst. I remember applying for the job once, then not getting it, and coming back a […]