by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog
If you’re in the retail business, it can be helpful if your competition disappears . . . all over New England. “They’ve got people driving in from Boston, from New York. It’s the only place for them to go,” said Ian Freeman, concerning what appears to be the only...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog
This is a function of design more than technology, but geeks love good design, so let’s celebrate the outdoor public toilets in a small Colorado town that have been named America’s Best Bathroom by the corporate-identity firm Cintas. Reports the Denver...
by David Brooks | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
In 2009, in the spirit of finding something to write about when news gets slow over the holidays – no, wait, I mean in the spirit of providing an innovative service to readers – I calculated how many “peep-able” leaves exist in New Hampshire. I just did something...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog
My favorite part of the Game Jam held last weekend at NH Technical Institute in Concord are the house rules: Participants MUST sleep at least four hours, eat meals and take one shower every 24-hour period. Here’s the story.
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog
I have a story in today’s Monitor about collecting leaves in Concord which includes numbers – numbers! Granite Geek loves numbers, so here they are: A few numbers about leaf collection by the street department of the city of Concord: Amount collected:...
by David Brooks | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Until this week, I have never owned a car with 200,000 miles on the odometer despite our family policy of driving cars into the ground. We have owned lots of Subarus, which tend to rust out somewhere around 175,000, so congratulations to Honda for making a Civic that...
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