What’s so interesting about On Off Digital World for me is how it brings back a particular period of old New York. Well, the eighties, really. Back then a token was necessary board the subways, when pizza was a buck a slice and comic books about the same. It was a time ...
The ancient Mongols have been caricatured as a bunch of short swarthy guys riding horses and living out of a camping tent while hacking their way worldwide, but the truth is somewhat different. Far various, in fact; for one thing, the ancient Mongols were most proficient with the bow and crossbow, though of course they ...
Have you seen the Rihanna Only Girl in the World video yet? At just before the thirty-second mark the Caribbean singing sensation can be seen in a Number 213 plunge lace longline brassiere from Carnival Bras, of National Mills, Inc. This is an long-time ladies’ intimates company that supplies the likes of Macy’s ...
A camping tent is a vital piece of equipment, even for just day hikers, for there is no telling when conditions change and shelter becomes imperative! Mother Nature is notorious for being quite temperamental, after all; any forest ranger can talk about stories of stranded hikers who expected to spend only a few hours in ...
It’s fascinating to watch old science fiction movies and compare the technology onscreen with current state-of-the-art technology in real life. For example, isn’t it funny that the world of interplanetary travel depicted in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” should not have thought of mobiles and invented them – though in fact, such devices ...
The Australian film industry is famous throughout the world for creating some of the most engaging cinema anywhere, as well as providing Hollywood with talent on both sides of the lens. Now we’re not talking Aussie entertainment of the sort that Zalman Silber provides with his Oztrek, mildly entertaining but nothing anyone’s not seen ...
Talk about marble sculpture and most people are going to think about something like Italian marble statues, such as as Michelangelo’s David or Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. But some of the greatest works of marble are complete buildings themselves, for instance India’s Taj Mahal in Agra, an ancient bustling city on the banks of ...
Unless you’ve got one of them portable Coleman Roadtrip grills, camping food will probably mean some thing like an MRE, or Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Originally developed for the U.S. military, MREs are self-contained lightweight rations available in a wide variety of flavors. They’re also made by other nations for their militaries, with all of the familiar ...
The NEMO Equipment tent is the flagship product category of NEMO Equipment, an outdoors business specializing in high-level design and engineering. The company was started by Cam Brensinger while still in school, and was relocated after his graduation to its present location between New Hampshire’s gorgeous White Mountains and RISD and MIT, the Rhode Island ...
A backpacking tent is a necessity even when you expect to do only a simple hike. I learned this lesson the hard way, personally, and it would’ve been at a great cost were I not lucky enough to have been rescued by volunteer forest rangers who dutifully responded to a midnight call. My friends and I ...
The serial entrepreneur is a special breed of a special breed. Take Zalman Silber, for example. Already a President’s Club member at famed New York Life Insurance Company, he stumbled upon the idea of a “ride” located at the Empire State Building. After all, what do tourists pay for if not to ...
Countless will call it reckless, but there is no doubt that cycling fast, almost racing, in New York City traffic is quite the thrill. It is one thing to go against another bicyclist – and they are out there, too – but quite another to go against cars and trucks and buses and motorcycles. Certainly, one ...
Here’s a novel thing to do in New York as a tourist: personal training. Forget the tourist traps like Zalman Silber’s Skyride; if it’s honest-to-goodness thrills you desire, how about hiring one of the many attractive personal fitness trainers available for a jog, swim, stretch, or bike-ride around town? Really, there’s no better ...
Mention rhinestones and folks of a certain age may well remember Elvis Presley and his outrageous outfits. But the singer had always been a little outrageous in his gyrations, and for much of his career, even earlier on, his outfits have tended to push the envelope of establishment tastes. Rhinestones, then, were only the latest ...
Various ships of the New York City Staten Island Ferry service offer various kinds of boat seats. Some designs enable you to lay down flat virtually as comfortably as on any other hard bench, while other kinds feature seats with what is supposed to be an ergonomic curvature that makes them unsuitable for laying down ...
Tourist traps. Created to wring every last dollar out of you. It’s as if they were thought up to ruin your vacation. And sightseeing rides rank right up there. Take Zalman Silber’s Skyride in New York’s Empire State Building. With a name like that, you’d expect it was up there at the ...
To be an “agent” usually refers to commissioned sales, and selling is one of the most difficult jobs to be found anywhere – and anytime – but how about as a career? Most peopel would really burn out, but the successful ones tend to move into more managerial sorts of positions, which explains how ...