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Tucker and I are getting to know each other quite well. The big horse is docile and knows the way. Yesterday I got a chance to go through the woods with him for a few hours. We even sped up to a quick canter for a few strides in an […]
Here is my new truck. Not really new but in great shape, taken care of by two women who live next door. I told them they can still borrow it when they need a truck.
I walked over and said hello again to the proprietors of the new market in town. It’s called the Garden City Market, and Sami is one of the owners. I told her that she could pick up our WiFi signal at her store and that we are all grateful that […]
In an ingenious nod to the forces of capitalism, Sprint will soon embed its logo onto a song so that illegal downloaders will see its logo when the song plays. It’s an ingenious way to beat filesharing–the music industry’s bugaboo. The NY Post reported today that on Atlantic Records tracks, […]
Last night we enjoyed a particularly poignant NetFlick. It was called Kolja, and it told the story of a Czech bass player who married a Russian woman for money and ended up without her but with her 5-year-old boy. The languages, of course, were obtuse, a combination of Czech and […]
It had to happen some day. The tallest and the shortest man in the world met face to face. Here Mr Xishun shakes hands with Mr Ping Ping, he’s 7′ 9″ and Ping measures up at 2’4″. The little guy is Mongolian and Bao Xishun, is a herdsman from Chifeng, […]
Whenever the subject is music downloads, you hear the name “Big Champagne.” These are the folks who keep track of every music fileshare, and now they’re providing radio stations with lists of which songs are illegally downloaded the most, to help the stations play the songs people want to hear. […]
I took the Peter Pan bus back to Springfield last night, it was the last bus. There were too many people and not enough seats…at one point the driver stepped into the bus and asked if anyone would get up and let a young girl on instead, and wait 2 […]
I’m back in NYC where a light rain is falling on an internet cafe where you have to shovel dollar bills into the computer to keep it going. I’m pleased with my day. I took an early bus and made it to the Italian Tourism Commission in time for most […]
Will we ever stop being amazed by Google? I certainly won’t. The other day I wanted to see how far the trip was from Port Authority bus terminal to my appointment at a NY ad agency. I google mapped it and stumbled upon their latest twist–360 degree camera views of […]
The American Journalism review had a story about a local news website chain failure. Exactly the kind of business you’d think would make sense and money these days. But not yet. “By early 2007, Backfence.com had grown to 13 sites serving towns around Washington, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay […]
I am thinking and reading more about Colombia now that I’m planning to go there in early August. Today’s news was heartening. In all of the country’s major cities, millions marched against FARC the revolutionaries who kidnapped 11 politicians five years ago and now are being blamed for their deaths. […]