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Quality begets quality

 
 
This is what I love about New York.  There are a great many people, involved in a myriad of activities that span the spectrum of the human experience.  Yet, in the midst of the multitudes, if you are exhibiting quality, you will be noticed, you will be recognized, and in this case, you will be [...]

Free Rice!

Wanna kill some time, guilt free?  Play this game while supporting humanitarian efforts and educating yourself in the process.  Challenge: Beat my score (level 6) in Art: Famous Paintings.
Ready…Go!

“FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 20 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, [...]

Rant: Family Style

Please tell me if this has happened to you.  You’re at a Chinese restaurant with say, a group of six.  You’re going through the rituals of looking over the menu, discussing what your in the mood for, giving or receiving  recommendations based on past experience, or suggestion, or hearsay or whatever.  Then, out of nowhere, [...]

Batali, Spain, and me

Mario Batali’s new show, “Spain…on the road again”, aired Sunday night on PBS. Here Batali is basically touring around Spain with Gweneth Paltrow, Mark Bittman, and Spanish actor, Claudia Bessols.  Oh the life, tripping around Spain in a convertible Benz, with your buddy and two beautiful, accomplished women, eating your face off at every turn, [...]

Glocal at the drive-thru

Earlier this year I read a blurb in Wired magazine about order taking at drive thru windows being outsourced overseas and elswhere. In other words, that person on the speaker box is speaking to you from a cubicle in a call center, probably far from where you are.