I'm not really a doughut guy. I don't take trips to Dunkin' or buy Crispy Cremes but a local coffee shop called COCO Confections and Coffee (the owner Terry is in the picture) near my house in Sea Cliff has some very special treats on the weekend. A young woman named Shannon makes doughnuts from scratch and sells them at the store. There's alwa …
In honor of this special day, I thought I'd share with you some great April Fools' Day pranks. In 1957, the BBC ran a segment about the Swiss spaghetti harvest. They claimed that due to a mild winter and the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil," Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper crop of spaghetti. The segment featured footage of pe …
I started teaching last week and in the first class I always rant about the process they will be going through. I emphatically and passionately make a plea for each student to approach the class with an open heart and an open mind. If they are able to be vulnerable, each student will learn about themselves in their journey of building a business …
Yes...this is true. At the World Baseball Classic, Italy’s dugout has an espresso machine. Mike Piazza, a former Met, who plays for the Italian team said he was dissatisfied the coffee was being served in a paper cup and not a ceramic one. “I don’t like espresso out of a paper cup. It’s kind of sacrilege,” Piazza said. “But when it’s the onl …
I visited a client yesterday in Orangeburg NY. The meeting was at noon and the drive from my office was about 75 minutes. Nice ride. The meeting ended at 3p and the drive back was 2 + hours. I had forgotten how much traffic there is around here. I still love to drive but I will think about the time I make appointments in the future.
It may be the pendulum has swung too far. The words "Trigger Warning" now do the opposite of what they were intended for. There is evidence that trigger warnings may harm the very population they intend to help. A Harvard study involving 451 trauma survivors, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science in 2020, found that trigger warn …
Last week, in Cohasset MA, a facilities director found electrical wires, temporary duct work, and a bunch of computers that seemed out of place while checking the local school (Cohasset Middle/High School). He reached out to the town’s IT director, who determined that it was a cryptocurrency mining operation unlawfully hooked up to the school’s …
Traveling to California to see my daughter and son in law, we took Delta from NY to San Francisco. When I booked the flight my choice of seats were limited. However when we pulled back from airport to take off, to my surprise, the plane was half empty (or was it half full :) I guess the public is not flying to CA anymore? Did people change their …
I love my drive home from work. It's anywhere from 27 minutes to roughly 45. It totally depends on how fast I feel like driving. Last night was about 40 minutes, I was in a reflective mood. I listen to books (right now it's Sapiens, a fascinating perspective on our species), satellite and terrestrial radio, and sometimes I don't and drive in sil …
Here's one to be filed under the "don't let your kids play with your phone" list. Last Saturday night a Dad let his 6 year old son, use his cellphone to play a game before bed. But instead of playing a game, he used his father’s Grubhub account to order food from one restaurant after another totaling $1,000 worth of food. A virtual smorgasbord of …
ChatGPT is an advanced language model created by OpenAI. It's a powerful tool that can understand and respond to natural language input. It can be used to generate text, answer questions, and even engage in conversations. One of the most impressive things about ChatGPT is its ability to understand context. This means that if you ask it a follow-u …
As far as I can tell, Elon is 7 for 9. A pretty good track record. Here's a list: Zip2 Corporation (an online directory) - sold to Compaq for $22 million PayPal - sold to eBay for $165 million Tesla - didn't start it but took it over and now worth roughly $386 billion (market cap as of 1/23) SolarCity - basically gone and is now Tesla Solar Spac …
Walking into a coffee shop in the Garden District in New Orleans yesterday, there was what looked like a manikan, colorfully dressed, sitting on a shoe shine chair. The manikin looked awfully real to me. I watched (him) carefully and saw that his chest was moving up and down. In about 20 minutes his eyes opened, ate a beignet and then started to c …
Maybe this gets filed under "Only In Florida" Florida deputies arriving at the home where a 911 call originated, found a male suspect and his girlfriend inside the home. While talking to police, the female suspect told them that she had called 911 for the purpose of having law enforcement help them move their belongings from the house they were b …
For 15 years I've been making predictions for the coming year. It's is such a shot in the dark....here we go! To warm you up, here's my record since 2007: 2007 - 1 for 7. (my rookie year:)2008 - 1 for 1 (gutsy picking one but it was spot on)2009 - 3 for 5 2010 - 2 for 32011 - 3 for 3!!! 2012 - 3 for 3!!!2013 I took a break, the launch of th …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
