Monthly Archives: March 2013

Knock, Knock, I’m a Thief but Walmart Asked Me to Deliver Your TV

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I have always been a nervous nelly. That is why I live in an apartment building. I like the idea of a doorman between me and the person coming to see me. I remember one time when we had a weekend house in Quogue, Long Island, my daughter Whitney answered the front door for a Jehovah’s Witness. She was around 10 years old at the time. I was a few feet away, but she ran to the door first. In my mind, someone could have snatched her in the doorway. I flipped out and begged her never to open the front door again unless she knew exactly who was on the other side.

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Happy Birthday, March 28, 2013

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From Len Berman’s That’s Sports blog.
Happy Birthday: NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry, 69.
Birthday: Lady Gaga, 27.
Justin Young, 16.
Nicole Strauss, 35.
Sam Schneider, 35 (March 26).
Maryanne Kilgrow, young at heart, March 24.
William Schneider, 33 (March 23).

Look at the Tweets I Found

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Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost)
Twitter set to make almost $1 BILLION off mobile ads in 2014 huff.to/15Vtgbf

Guy Kawasaki (@GuyKawasaki)
Billionaire bored of his yacht – see photos is.gd/dSC8PL
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Everyone Is Flipping Out Over Flipboard

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I always feel left out when something new in tech is introduced and I don’t know anything about it. Then I feel worse when I open the various tech periodicals, sites, and blogs to see everyone writing about the new, exciting introduction. I feel like a secret society got together to get clued in and then did the pinky swear thing. No one talks about the new product in the press until the agreed upon date.

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Analyzing the Matzoh Ball

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This is the time of year that the consistency of a matzoh ball is one of the main topics of discussions around the dinner table. You don’t have to be Jewish to be a connoisseur.

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Just Give Me the Facts, Stop Boring Me with the Details

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Nick D’Alosio

When I was 17 years old, I was still trying to figure out how to take the subway to Manhattan by myself from Hollis, Queens much less selling a company I started a few years earlier to one of the best known brands in the country. Continue reading →

Pogue’s Flying Tricks

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David Pogue, personal technology editor at The New York Times, posted something wild on his Facebook page yesterday. His fiancée was flying from San Francisco to NYC to meet him while he was flying from Salt Lake City to JFK. They were both landing at the same time. During his flight, David checked the position of his fiancée’s airplane. Yikes, he discovered that he could practically toss a bag of peanuts at her.

I couldn’t figure how he managed to track both flights on the same map so I finally emailed him. This is what I got back.

“I used flightaware.com. I superimposed the two flights in Photoshop.”

Love conquers all.

Happy Birthday, March 25th

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Thanks to Len Berman Sports who told DigiDame about:
Happy Birthday: Danica Patrick, 31; Sir Elton John, 66.

And happy birthday to twin cousins Lauren and Michael Wohlgemuth of Oceanside, NY who are 16 years old today. Where did the years go?

Happy birthday Marsha Levine who is forever young with that purple streak In her hair. She is celebrating in hometown Rehoboth, Delaware.

Happy Passover

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Check Out the Checkout Counter

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I don’t know what took me so long, but a few months ago I realized that the checkout aisle in supermarkets and drug stores no longer had the same meaning that it did for most of my life. After I finished shopping for food or cosmetics, I would always spend time looking at the magazines at the checkout counter. If a magazine cover intrigued me, I would buy that issue. Continue reading →