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15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - The State of Biking in... · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - The System 163 · 0 replies · +3 points
http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com/2009/02/05/snow...
The worst place for winter driving has to be Dallas. I was in a training class there when sleet was forecast. The instructor said that they'd be put up in a hotel across the street to make sure that classes would go on.
When I asked if that wasn't a little excessive, he said, "A redneck can pitch an ice cube out his pickup window in July and back up the interstate for 30 miles."
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - Less Blogging · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - When would you use this? · 1 reply · +1 points
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - The System 137 · 0 replies · +1 points
Despite the fact that the newspaper had been critical of the Palm Beach County Sheriff buying a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, I managed to convince the right people that I should do a story on the good things that it did.
I spent almost six months flying with the crews, most of it on my own time.
Some of the crewmen didn’t know whether to trust me or not. While we were going through the chicken dance, getting-to-know-you phase, I heard that they were going to do some practice picking up victims in the rescue sling. That sounded like fun, so I volunteered.
The last thing they pointed out before we lifted off was a red switch covered with a safety. “That’s the guillotine switch. If we ever feel that the load we’re lifting is endangering the aircraft, I just pull the safety back, push this red button and a blade cuts the cable: The cable you’re swinging from.”
He wasn’t smiling when he said that. I kind of got the point.
Picture here: http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com/2008/12/29/i-me...
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - Advertising with Rossc... · 0 replies · +1 points
One woman sort of grasped the concept of web advertising, but her daughter knew right away what was going on.
I don't mind the Google ads all that much. I normally pay about as much attention to ads - print, TV and electronic - as I do names in a Russian novel. I just bleep right past them. (No offense to any Russian readers.) Some of the Google ads are on-target and interesting. I did a review of bike taillights last week and clicked on some of the ads that popped up next to it. I was pleasantly surprised to find some vendors I may actually use some time.
My first Google check arrived from them this week: a huge $46.01 for clicks on www.palmbeachbiketours.com. Amazon brought in a little less than $200. Considering that was for about three months, I'm both pleased and disappointed.
Pleased because it's money I didn't have and disappointed because I had hoped to be able to afford a better brand of cat food for my wife and me. I guess she's just going to have to make do with the store brand for a bit longer.
My friend, a former newspaper food editor, and I wrestle with this issue all the time. In our Old World, there was a strict barrier between editorial, advertising and opinion. Since we are, for now, one-man/woman bands, it's a little painful to be a blend of those three entities.
http://www.jannorris.com/has been lucky enough to attract paid local advertising, so she's got a steady stream of income. She has, so far, resisted selling ad space above the banner, though.
I guess, though, that once you take money for it, there's no question about what you are. After that, you're just negotiating for price.
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - The System 122 · 0 replies · +5 points
"Oh, Bleep," Wife says. "He's peed in the refrigerator again."
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - The System 120 · 0 replies · +6 points
About five years ago, it became BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
In the last couple of years, its BRATTTTTTTTTTTTTT, BRATTTTTTTTTTT, BRATTTTTTTTT.
I'll admit that the family tradition back in MO was to open the back door and send a shotgun blast winging to the heavens, but we lived in the country.
Don't those folks understand that what goes up has to come down?
Let's hope for a better year next year.
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - Hang Onto Your Butts... · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Rosscott, Inc. - De-Dorked Bike Helmets... · 0 replies · +1 points
My goal is to do a bunch of two and three-day minitours that I can write up for www.palmbeachbiketours.com. I think the first one is going to be a West Palm Beach, FL, to Key West, FL, run. I get a lot of hits from folks searching for info on that ride and the last time I did it was before a bunch of bike trails were completed.