Mandela's life and impact is an incredible story. The son of a tribal chief and imprisoned for 27 years, he was elected President of the country that put him in jail only three years after he was released. He become a symbol of racial reconciliation around the world and an inspiration to millions of oppressed people. What amazed me about this m …
After stuffing myself with fried turkey, brisket, potato latkes, stuffing and brussel slaw, I wondered how many other people enjoy the same. So...I went on a Thanksgiving fact finding tour and found the following morsels for you to digest. Americans eat 736 milllion pounds of turkey every Thanksgiving That's roughly 16 lbs per person (I definitel …
This morning the Salvation Army is sending over a truck to pick up some office furniture that's in my garage. That's the technical description of what's happening. The real story is the desk I sat at for over 20 years, the flat files I used for artwork that was lovingly made for clients and the files cabinets that housed the history of the Tobol Gr …
I know you're on the edge of our seat wondering what he will do after baseball. Well wonder no more...Derek Jeter is starting a book publishing imprint company called "Jeter Publishing" in partnership with Simon & Schuster. Apparently all his time on the disabled list last season had him thinking about life after sports. It must be difficult …
I'm excited. Today is the first ever Gotham Oratorical contest and I'm one of the judges. Fred wrote about it in his blog on 10.18.13 If you're not familiar with the term, it's the art and skill of public speaking. Something I love to do :) This contest is for High School students only and even more impressive is that Nancy's daughter Jackee crea …
Did you know that right now, to be licensed as a Farm Brewery, any beer brewed in the State of New York must have 20% of its ingredients (besides water) grown right here? Apparently the current acreage devoted to growing the ingredients for beer cannot support the need. And...that the number of breweries being built in the NYC area alone are expe …
Sometimes sleep comes easy and sometimes not. This night I'm up writing this blog and it's in the wee hours of the AM. My mind keep running...clients...projects...relationships... It's tough to shut off. I turn the TV on and hope that watching the machines that make pencils put me to sleep. The experts say that no matter what time you go to sleep …
The Affordable Health Care Act, affectionately know as ObamaCare, is getting so much attention these days. It was the focus of a government shutdown but this blog is not about the politics...it's about the website. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, is responsible for the development and operation of the site and she is ge …
A wierd thing happens to me sometimes and by the chatter on social media I'm not alone. I'll be sitting at my desk, or in my car and I will feel a buzz that my phone is letting me know something is happening. I reach to look to see what it is and there's nothing. No text, no appointment reminder...nothing. This doesn't happen all the time but en …
In a couple of months, barring what happens with our government, Twitter will go public. For you investors out there it's the biggest IPO since Facebook. For us in social media, we get to look at Twitter "under the hood." To see how they really make money and other fun facts. Twitter is really a news phenomenom that has created a world in which 1 …
I've recently became part of a guys book club and having never been part of one before, I didn't know what to expect. My initial perceptions were not what I experienced. Rather than a boring meeting talking about the finer points of sentence structure, it's filled with good laughs, stories, politics and sometimes talking about the book. Suffice it …
Here's some news you may like to hear...NASA will pay you $160 a day to lay in bed. I'm not kidding. NASA is seeking volunteers for Spaceflight Simulation Studies by using long-term bed rest to simulate the effects of weghtlessness on the human body. It seems they are getting ready to send astronauts back into space...or maybe pillownauts. If …
In Star Trek, The Motion Picture, a destructive space entity travels back to earh to find its creator. In doing so it obiliterates every nonplanet thing in it path except (cue the music) the Starship Enterprise. The crew discovers that it's Voyager I which encountered an alien culture who then decided to fulfill its mission of reporting back to its …
Most of the time when I'm walking through the City I am approached by someone looking for money and from my last experience, they are getting very creative now. I was in front of Grand Central Station enjoying the beautiful day and the architecture when a man came right up to me and said "Do you speak Hebrew?" I immediately stopped and looked at …
I usually take route 106/107 to work and this past Thursdy morning was no different. The only exception was that traffic was at a complete standstill. After about a half hour of keeping myself busy listening to XM radio, NPR and a bunch of other stuff, traffic moved a little bit to reveal that the delay was not an accident, which I thought it was, …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
