Wait til computers really take over! No more blank envelopes! No way, nohow. Never mind the standard sci-fic trope about computers controlling everything; real life is at once more imaginative and less exciting (so far!). Well, actually, it’s exactly that kind of a nightmare for those whose livelihoods have been lost ...
Standard business cards are exchanged every day by Japanese from all walks of life. Does that seem funny? Carrying cards for purposes of introduction has long been a popular custom in that country, not just for salarymen but many other kinds of people as well. In fact, the practice is so commonplace ...
When it’s Blu Ray Media you want, then look to today’s superb variety of from twenty-five to fifty gigs of storage on each disc! Wow, that sounds impressive all right, but really, what could one possibly do with all that space?? Okay, if you’re authoring some definitive edition of an artsy-fartsy flick crammed ...
I just received a W9 Form from a company that I previously did some freelance work for and I was wondering what it was. Well it is an IRS (Internal Revenue Service) tax form that companies give their freelancers to fill out in order to collect information needed. The W-9 Form does not go back ...
The store display of On Off Digital World is full of technological marvels, all the latest in consumer electronics today, though their real bread and butter comes from selling to tourists some desperately needed photography equipment. World-famous Times Square is well within walking distance, and lots of photo ops abound throughout the neighborhood, too. ...
I was at the beach the other day and saw some girls in modest swimsuits. These were not dour designs at all, but quite colorful and bright, but they did have sleeves that hid the elbows and leggings that covered the knees, with just the neck visible. That was the most striking thing ...
What a great day, what great weather! And yet, it was everywhere: there I was, walking past On Off Digital World, one of those old-fashioned mom-and-pop operations from a generally bygone era in New York retailing, and there it was, the news about Osama bin Laden being dead, broadcast by the televisions in the ...