Arrival

NYC, the plane has landed, and Shlon has arrived.
(I hear NYC is filled with some rude boys!!)

On my telecommute this morning

Nothing allows for geographic choice more than the ability to work at home. By 2015, suggests demographer Wendell Cox, there will be more people working electronically at home full time than taking mass transit, making it the largest potential source of energy savings on transportation. In the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, almost one in 10 workers is a part-time telecommuter. Some studies indicate that more than one quarter of the U.S. workforce could eventually participate in this new work pattern. Even IBM, whose initials were once jokingly said to stand for "I've Been Moved," has changed its approach. Roughly 40 percent of the company's workers now labor at home or remotely from a client's location.


By Joel Kotkin | NEWSWEEK
Published Oct 9, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Oct 19, 2009

rice and beans

nothing more to be said
signed,
the broke & unemployed everywhere

Andrei photo

driving through the desert on the way to vegas

Open Call

for bibloggers

Who's got some  news?

Ladies and Gentleman, introducing, straight from Boston...

Tim, the Haikuist!

sorry bois and gurrls
today is all about me
i'll see you later 

-Tim

Common Flaw

A very stupid obsession with cupcakes seems to plague both cities. 

Grit your teeth, like bun-less Atkins burgers, this too shall pass.

Movers & Shakers

LA Latin-American cocaine dealers in pretty porsches.

NY Wall Street rats in black cars.

lol....this is fun!

Sticks and Stones

LA is a pothead.

NYC is a drunk.

Barely Legal and Lovin It

Entrepeneurialism and immigration

Let them in

Mar 13th 2009
From Economist.com

Why immigration is good for America's business

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13307769

Thomas Mann in Manhattan Beach

The heat was extreme. Do you care for that sort of thing? Weeks on end? Yes, of course, it is proper to the south, it is classic weather, the sun of Homer, the climate wherein human culture came to flower- and all the rest of it. But after a while it is too much for me, I reach a point where I begin to find it dull. The burning void of the sky, day after day, weighs one down; the high coloration, the enormous naivete of the unrefracted light - they do, I dare say, induce the light-heartedness, a carefree mood born of immunity from downpours and other meteorological caprices. But slowly, there makes itself felt a lack: the deeper, more complex needs of the northern soul remain unsatisfied. You are left barren - even it may be, in time, a little contemptuous. 

                 Excerpt from Mario and The Magician,  Thomas Mann

                    

Mars & Venus

LA is a woman. Slutty, flakey, unorganized.

NYC is a man. Calloused, impatient, mean.

With only three thousand miles of bedspace between them, things could get hot....