The winds were blowing and outside from my 15th floor Hilton hotel room, the flags strained, flapping wildly on their poles. Yet outside, long lines of schoolchildren wound their way past five-foot snowdrifts into tunnels that take them to a park where a huge house has been built of ice. […]
I’m in the terminal at Bradley, waiting to board a tiny Beechcraft for a 40-minute flight to Montreal. It’s my first trip of the year, and the destination is Quebec City, where they are celebrating the Winter Carnival. Fellow blogger and friend Ginger Warder just returned and she warned me–it’s […]
What’s new on the menu in Vietnam? None other than rat! I read on this rainy morning a story by James Hookway in the WSJ that told of the booming market for rodent all through Vietnam. Street vendors and restaurants report they are looking for rats to sell, and to […]
You can always find interesting stuff on Rush Limbaugh’s website. He’s in trouble with the GOP because he’s launching missiles against the assumed nominee. Here’s a link from the Times UK about the target of the talkmiester’s rath. “McCain’s marriage has long attracted attention both for the 18-year age gap […]
Today we’re running a help wanted ad on Craigslist for cafe help. That’s a good feeling, we’re adding to the jobs of America, the vaunted jobs that every pol talks about. Creating jobs for Americans. We’re doing that at GoNOMAD. The ad on Craigslist will bring in about 10 or […]
Ad agencies are coming up with rich sources of quality content and ideas…and Quizno Subs is getting sued by Subway over their agency’s latest idea…allow users to submit videos attacking their competitor’s sandwiches. I laughed out loud when I read the topics of some of the 115 videos sent in […]
The cafe sponsored a get-together for Chamber of Commerce members up at Hope and Olive, a very hip and cool new restaurant that is putting Greenfield on the culinary map. One of their owners, Jim Zaccaro, showed me his selection…more than 30 bottles of wine available by the glass. I […]
Kent passed along a book to me last month that I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. He reads so many books and it’s a pleasure to get a crack at them when he’s finished. Today was a sick day, so I had time to enjoy Gringos in Paradise, a new book by […]
Walter S. Mossberg can kill or redeem any electronics product just by a bad or good mention in his personal technology column in the WSJ. I cracked up when I read his review of the new Voyager phone from Verizon, which he wasn’t impressed with. “In fact the Voyager, bafflingly, […]
Yesterday as I was helping Cindy move her office I had time to peruse a copy of National Geographic. There I found a story about a favorite topic: Pirates. In the long story, Peter Gwin meets up with an Indonesian pirate who is held in a Malaysian jail, after a […]
Here is our newest acquisition…a cool tradeshow booth that fits into the little stand shown in front, that we’ll use at the Javits Center for the NY Times Travel Show. No more borrowing booths, no more fussing over hard to assemble old outdated equipment. It took my friend Dave and […]
Now the big PR blitz begins…I mailed out press releases to local newspapers here trumpeting our first appearance as exhibitors at the New York Times Travel Show. Hopefully this will be newsworthy to our local papers and we’ll see some coverage. In the release I detail my plans to present […]