Gotham City Networking, Inc.®’s co-founder calls our Gotham Green® group, The Change The World Group. Easy to adopt that description. I often talk about the need to make a difference and as this month began – literally – on December 1, 2016, Gotham Green® announced the recipients of our Gotham Green Awards®. I kept thinking about a song that on …
Kentucky Fried Chicken of New Zealand is offering their really loyal customers the chance to win a strange piece of merchandise: a scented candle. Not just any candle though. The iconic fried chicken joint posted to their FB page a fried chicken-scented candle bearing the image of the chain's Colonel Sanders logo. This is not the first time KFC o …
This is to thank all of you who contributed to Gotham's annual Season of Giving. To be more precise, tax deductible contributions were made by many of you to Gotham's Foundation and totaled $20,000 this year. Special thanks are extended to Marc Halpert, Gotham's credit card purveyor who donated back over $500 in credit card fees and Raj Goel, Mich …
We live in a condo development. PSE&G just completed a several-week project - replacing power lines. There was lots of equipment around - trucks, cranes,front loaders and a "CallAHead" for the convenience of the crew. The condo is also doing a renovation of our clubhouse. One day, I noticed a second "CallAHead" sitting next to the first. It tu …
So I told this story at the MAD meeting yesterday, but I thought I'd share it here as well. My wife was reading the NY Times and saw a book she wanted to read, went to the library, that book wasn't available, she got another by the same author, loved it , googled what the author was writing about, and we ended up in Costa Rica riding shoeless, bitl …
I suspect this might be showing my age but here goes. This past weekend we flew to Rochester. [Our visit there is for certain the subject of another blog.] When the plane landed, I started quietly applauding and then stopped. No one else around me was doing the same, and to be honest, Bill was even looking at me kind of funny. I always …
I realized the other day that I am a creature of habit. I love my routines. On Saturday mornings, I’m up by 9:00 a.m., then on the treadmill, a shower, coffee, and then, by 10:15, I’m sitting at the kitchen table writing my blog. Sunday mornings one can generally find me drinking my coffee, reading The Times and cooking dinners for the week. My …
Last week the plan for today's blog would be to discuss those announced this past Thursday at Gotham Green® as the recipients of the Gotham Green Award® at a Luncheon next April in advance of Earth Day. Indeed this past week involved a have set of meetings; two major presentations sandwiched the Green announcement itself, and I did enjoy sharing m …
Ahhh the sounds of suburbia. I awoke this morning to hear the lovely whine of several leaf blowers and the rumble of a few lawnmowers as they made their way around my neighbor's yards. We have a rule in our town that states you cannot use this equipment before 8A and wouldn't you know at exactly 8A the cacophony of 2 cycle and 4 cycle engines fil …
I really really like CVS. Maybe I'm even addicted. So much so that I feel for our long term local pharmacy, but how can one resist the avalanche of discount mailers and bonuses that spew out when you pay?Last (Black) Friday I was armed with saved discount chits and slips. I attacked with the plan that the more I bought the more I'd save. In the …
The sage advice "Don't believe everything you hear" and "Don't believe everything you read" have taken on ever-increasing meaning. Websites simply make things up and are then quoted, referenced and relied upon. A modern-day version of the parlor game of "telephone" in which the falsehoods are repeated and laundered to become "truth". And the human …
As Fred often says, Down is Up and Up is Down. In 1810, on this day, Oliver Winchester was born, known for manufacturing and marketing the Winchester Repeating Rifle, with thousands of rifles in the hands of the average pioneer, the rifles gained a reputation as "the gun that won the West." In 1993, on this day, the Brady bill was signed, making a …
Last week, I asked you all to share non-food Thanksgiving traditions. There were some fun suggestions. In my house, we decided to repeat last year’s agenda and first posed Table Talk questions (ie: “Which of your ancestors would you most like to meet?” and “Name one goal for the upcoming year?”) followed by our annual round of “I am thank …
My children, every year, immediately get into the holiday shopping season. They love going to the mall at 5:00 a.m. on Black Friday with their friends and cousins. As much as they love the “bargains” they think they are getting, I believe, what they enjoy most is the social aspect of Black Friday; being in the mall in the early morning hours with …
I hope all enjoyed your Thanksgiving Day and weekend that followed with family, friends, colleagues, however it works best for you. It always involves memories and traditions, some peculiar to some celebrants. Music obviously (See last week (and of course you can still comment there as well as today).) plays a role here. Many of us play Alice’s …
