Ideas Public Drinking Fountains SimonOctober 28, 20070 It wasn't many years ago that if you wanted a drink of water in public it was free at a drinking fountain. Now a store...
Ideas Missy Stays at Home SimonOctober 24, 20074 Nurit and I had to fly back to Pasadena on Monday to see Gary D. who is still very ill. The trip meant we had to...
Ideas Los Alamos Debate SimonOctober 16, 20070 Los Alamos was built as a secret town during WWII to develop the atomic bomb. The site was selected because of its...
Ideas An Idea on How to Buy Art SimonOctober 10, 20071 We are in Santa Fe one of the worlds great art towns and so my mind has turned to thoughts of art. Over the last...
Ideas Two Problems Solved SimonOctober 2, 20070 Two of the biggest problems facing cities are graffiti and illegally parked cars. Here is a combination...
Baseball Drowning in Spit, or the death of Baseball SimonSeptember 29, 20071 Baseball players spit. It is part of the ritual. They all used to chew tobacco so spitting was a requirement. Now it...
Ideas A Very Good Restaurant Marketing Idea SimonSeptember 20, 20070 We took Rebecca to Roy's in Philadelphia for dinner on Monday night. We made the reservation through the concierge at...
Ideas IBM Selectric SimonSeptember 5, 20071 These two typewriters were donated to the PJTC Library and I'm supposed to figure out what to do with them. I...
Ideas Nostalgia SimonSeptember 4, 20071 Barbara Kingsolver wrote this book about her year of trying to eat local food. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle It...
Ideas Better Cell Phones SimonSeptember 1, 20070 I handed my cell phone to Nurit the other day to talk to someone and after she finished the call she told me that my...