Find a group of people with enough critical mass to start random conversations and you find the random linkages of who knows whom via some path of relatives, friends and former roommates. Playing this game (known as “Jewish Geography” in some of my circles) via the global community of eBay gives even [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2005
How Do You Know It’s Cold in NYC?
It’s been cold in the greater New York City area. Not just your usual January chill, but downright cold and windy. It’s Winnie The Pooh’s Blustery Day with ‘roid rage. Today was so cold that none of the tabletop vendors were in Times Square. These portable shops, dotting the [...]
Growth Ingredients (No Steroids!)
My grandfather was a doctor in the coal-mining region of Pennsylvania until the mid 1940s. He had a 3-digit phone number. Not an area code, not an exchange — the whole phone number was was a trio of digits. Any call outside the local exchange needed the operator do to the equivalent [...]
