General Misc.

My wife stayed at The Hilton New York while visiting New York City recently. Her late evening check-in, the availability of rooms and the kindness of front-desk worker all aligned in such a happy way that she was upgraded to a pretty spectacular spacious suite with a grand view of Central Park. Here are some [...]

A photograph of a sign in a Pottery Barn Kids store at Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts:

Are they sure it’s “”their” space” and not “their “space”?”
…as long as it isn’t a spelling bee
Here’s a sign from a CVS store in Winchester in Massachusetts:

A question mark would have been in order in place of the mysterious [...]

305 million people plus!

My son, impressed by the new W hotel in downtown Boston.

Bass Pro - known from the famous jingle “The Best Gillette Can Get” - has a tremendous Christmas tree at its Patriots Place store. That store is a great shopping experience.

What did the Iraqis find after America left their country?
A Red Sock on every base.
[Uh, wait a minute, the Sox just tied the game. Holy cow.
And fifteen minutes past midnight they won the came! Quite a turnabout. On to Game 6. Wrap up Tampa Bay's world championship hopes and send them burning down the Charles [...]

Whenever I hear politicians or pundits talk about the American people making sacrifices I think of store parking lots and the enormous sacrifice shoppers routinely choose not to make. I’m talking about returning one’s shopping cart to a shopping cart corral. Sometimes it’s an arduous six feet journey, sometimes it’s a 100 feet death march [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton’s blatant lie that she had to contend with sniper fire or the threat of sniper fire when she landed Tusla in Bosnia in 1996 could be seen as an example of her rotten, devilish, say-anything, no-good soul. That’s not how I think of the Senator, and I that’s not what I think [...]

Here are a few pictures my dad took last summer in the Old Country. A couple of birds were released into the wild by Nordens Ark, an organization that works to preserve and strengthen endangered species.

The United States Census Bureau announced yesterday that the data has been quarterly updated on USA Counties where you can find
5,900 data items for the United States, the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), and all of the nation’s 3,141 counties and county equivalents.
Have fun.