We’d been friends with benefits for almost a year when the benefits started petering out. That was my stated reason for leaving, but the truth of the matter is that I’d been looking for an excuse, because there’d never been, not even at the very beginning when the good looks and the witty rapartee seemed […]
Loud music and uncomfortable chairs are two of the ways — two among many? — that Jack-in-the-Box, Taco Bell and others of their ilk optimize flow-through. Ride ’em in, ride ’em out. Starbucks, though … Starbucks used to be different. A huge corporation, yes. Cookie cutter interiors, yes. Baristas happy-jacked to a fare thee well, […]
On August 3, I traded in my $75/month no-data Verizon plan for the unlimited everything plan offered by Republic Wireless, a one-year-old subsidiary of Bandwidth.com headquartered in Cary, NC. Their current business model is one plan, one phone, one price. $19/month. No contract. Yes, the phone (a Motorola Defy XT) is running Android V2.3, not […]
