What a day we had in Glorious Greenland! I am very excited about the nascent tourist business that will soon turn into something very significant when Air Greenland begins its twice-weekly flight from Baltimore to Greenland in late May ’07. You can feel that the country is ready to welcome […]
In Greenland everyone hangs out their laundry, even during snowstorms…we are in Sisimiut, on the coast and here there is a year round harbor. The big employer is Royal Greenland they process shrimp and halibut but the cod is scarce. Today we heard about a trade school where people can […]
We took a short crash course tonight in Greenlandic: in this language there are only 20 letters and three vowels…and a sound that is common for two L’s is sort of like the sound someone with a lisp makes. Greenland is fantastic: The food has been first rate, fresh fish, […]
We took a boatline called Disko Line out into the channel, and passed huge icebergs and small chunks of ice as we made our way out of a long fjord. Greenland’s size and immensity makes you feel small and insignificant. The first mate we met in up in the helm […]
We boarded a red boat in Ilulissat harbor, it was snowing quite hard. The boats deck was slippery with snow, and the captain and his crew were topside, inside their quarters you could see a flat screen with the map of the glaciers and in front his two radar screens, […]
A dinner of Greenlandic food was consumed at 10 pm tonight. Fin whale, smoked salmon and halibut, raindeer slices (tender like beef), turnips, fried potatoes, white wine, (there has been lots of wine here) We flew in during a snowstorm to Ilulissat, a town of 4500 with 3000 sled dogs. […]
We landed in Greenland’s biggest airport, in Kangerlussuaq, above the Arctic circle, and stepped onto the tarmac. Inside the small airport, four youths stood in a row, as if waiting for us, they had features of eskimoes, the high cheekbones and Asian eyes. We had a late dinner of reindeer, […]
Waiting in the terminal for our Air Greenland flight, a charter today but next May will be a twice-weekly regular service from Baltimore. I had time to read the NY Time’s profile of Jack Welch and his wife Suzy. Busy busy, they say, doing speeches for $150,000 a pop. But […]
I hit the road in about 90 minutes. Last minute packing, don’t forget the Ipod, recharge the batteries on the camera, bring more socks. Then go downstairs and put in more laundry in case I didn’t bring enough…but how do you pack for a trip to GREENLAND? This is one […]
What a life! I am so excited at the pace of what happens to me and the people around me! I went on the radio yesterday and a photographer called me, she has photos of Oaxaca and wants to show them in the cafe. Then today, as I await my […]
Tagging. I love the concept. The idea is to identify who tagged you on his or her blog (that would be my associate editor Stephen Hartshorne). Then say eight things about yourself. Here goes * I once used to work from 11 pm until 7 am in a toothbrush factory. […]
George Gilder is a big thinker, he wrote a very long piece in the recent issue of Wired about Cloudware, or the use of remote datacenters, instead of desktops, on which to store data and where software is net-based instead of on hard drives. We get a glimpse of massive data centers that Google […]