I’m currently out at a real estate conference in New York City where around 1000 people who make their living communicating with clients are in attendance. (And one wine guru.) One difference at this year’s conference that I’ve noticed is less use of bluetooth headsets. At first, this didn’t make sense to me since it [...]
Photo by Larsz It’s really amazing to see how out of touch the yellow pages industry is with the interests of the people they depend on taking their directories into their homes. For example, the YP industry’s own stats show that 15% of Americans did not use a phone book even once last year. That [...]
I kind of dig the loose fold on this one. It’s different from what I normally encounter at Marriott Hotels where the norm – as far as I can tell – is to use gold foil stickers to hold down a tightly creased fold. Or, maybe someone in housekeeping got overly exuberant on New Year’s [...]
That title may be a bit misleading. Here’s the deal: While at the Carnegie Deli, I saw Andrew Zimmern: Then I sat down to eat. And what did I order? Balls. Coincidence? I think not.
I was thinking the other day about what sort of things kids born now won’t understand unless we take the time to explain them to them. 1. Coffee used to be sold by the pound in 1 pound bags. 2. Milk used to be sold by the gallon in 1 gallon bottles. 3. It used [...]
You’ll often hear people talk about the benefits of ownership as it applies to owning vs. renting. You get some tax breaks, don’t have to worry about annoying landlords, and you probably won’t share a thin wall with undesirable neighbors. However, for most people, home ownership isn’t really ownership in the true sense of the [...]
My friend Kyle was off fries for all of 2008, so come 2009 he decided he needed to do something significant to celebrate that milestone. (It should be noted that Kyle did lick a fry at Matt’s one night, and still ate tots.) This led to Fry-Day, which was originally scheduled for a Friday but [...]
Why the heck do you read this stuff? Seriously, don’t you have anything better to do? My assumption is that, at times, you do not. Or, more likely, you need a break from something you’d rather not be doing so you check to see if there is something new on The Deets that will give [...]
What’s the best news you’ve heard all day? How about a plan in Minnesota to make it easier to opt-out of phone book deliveries:
