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“Imagine spending the whole day on that train,” a motorman named William Martinez once said in a Bronx diner near the end of the D line, his route for several years. “It’s an exercise in staying awake. I was telling somebody it’s like watching the same movie 1,000 times, but […]
We woke up to snow this morning, gently falling and covering the cars in the driveway. Damn! Why didn’t we remember to put them into the garage?! One of life’s pleasures: watching snow fall and seeing that your car is snug and dry in the garage! Hanging out here by […]
What’s New in Advertising? Integrated Marketing…Web Pro News’ Rich Ord has the story today… “Microsoft won last night’s episode of The Apprentice hands down. In today’s TiVo happy world content integrated marketing is the future and we all better get used to it. Not just for TV either. Tonight’s episode […]
I’ve tried to avoid becoming overwhelmed by this big, long expensive process of creating the GoNOMAD Cafe. I’ve been warned not to get drawn too far away from my essential knitting, that is, our website and computer cleaning businesses. But the cafe business is tempting, and will bring us many […]
Ahh the things you can find out while trolling the ‘Net. According to various British news media reports, the crew of the fishing boat “Oceania”, out of the town of Blyth, blocked emergency radio frequencies for hours while they watched an erotic film on their shipboard television. Unfortunately, the crew […]
Why did we jump headlong into supporting a war in Iraq? Bob Norman of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times lists his top five co-conspiracists who made us believe in the cause. *Thomas Friedman: “He’s like a mouse on a sinking ship, running from nook to nook as the water comes […]
Once again the pace is picking up here at the Computer Cleaners/GoNOMAD office. We’ve committed to moving four buildings up, to an old fashioned storefront with big bay windows, space for five public computers, more desks, more storage, and parking in the back. We are going to open the GoNOMAD […]
Barbara Walters has transcended the role of television show host to that of an icon, a decider….now that she has retired, we only see her on special occasions, like last night. She presented the top ten most fascinating people….and made us wait until the very end to know that her […]
Iowa’s rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation’s most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O’Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting corpses. {Associated Press} “A biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern Iowa, O’Brien envisions turning some prime Iowa pasture into a […]
Chicago Magazine ran a profile on a writer who is often more famous than his movie star subjects, Roger Ebert. Here’s a bit about the olden daze. “After work, the gathering place in those days was a bar called O’Rourke’s, a hangout with the look of a shabby Irish pub. […]
Just weeks after voters struck down plans for a new monorail, a design glitch and a communication mishap immobilized the old one. Seattle’s PI reported today. Like conjoined twins, the Red and Blue trains remained frozen on the track above Fifth Avenue and Olive Way after the two sideswiped each […]
The following cautionary tale must surely rate in the top five of “most embarrassing things that can happen to you in public – ever”. According to UK tabloid the Sun, a 33-year-old Welsh housewife ended up in hospital after wearing Ann Summers vibrating Passion Pants to her local Asda supermarket […]