The CrosbyReport blog is a sly SEO trick intended to “cast a wider net,” attracting more web traffic and increasing the number of subscribers to my email newsletter. My blog also provides an opportunity to write about topics that don’t really fit comfortably under the umbrella of a travel-oriented website—everything from technology to finance. Yeah, theme-wise, the CrosbyReport blog is kinda all over the board. Enjoy!
I wish I’d said that
Here’s a nice compilation of wisdom and insight from people who, today, would almost certainly be either incredibly old, or more likely, emphatically dead. Here are some excerpts: Ah, women.…
Tales of holiday travel suckiness, courtesy of American Airlines.
I hate to say that American Airlines sucks as an airline, but the truth is that American Airlines sucks as an airline.
Yeah, I still have a comic book collection. So?
Comic books inspired me to draw. I tried several times, unsuccessfully, to start my own comic book, but I was never any good at the writing part. My characters were…
An open letter to anyone considering the purchase of Concur Technologies software.
Concur’s software is needlessly costing its clients vast amounts of money in training, lost productivity, and employee aggravation.
Spreading Idiocracy.
Idiocracy started as a satire of modern life, but it has become a scarily prescient documentary.
How the Internet can help you avoid vacations in hell.
Before you go on your next vacation, cruise or anything anywhere in the world, check your accommodations out by visiting the one website that’s purpose-built to find you accommodations that…
8 things a Bond flick must have to be a real Bond flick.
While good, the new movie, Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, isn’t a real Bond flick. Here’s why.
Maybe there IS some truth to alien life on other planets.
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took an image that shows our place in the universe.
My favorite kind of wine: free
The fine folks at Mankas Hills Vineyards were kind enough to send me a bottle of their 2004 Amelie Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot. For free. Well, they did have one request: that I blog about it.
How much jail time do I get for murdering the Earth?
Here’s a fun thing to do: Go to Al Gore’s Carbon Calculator and see how you personally are responsible for the untimely demise of this planet. TIP: I found that…
Foie Gras is proof that the French will eat damn near anything.
Foie Gras. It’s a kind of food. As I understand it, the term means “goose liver” in, I’m guessing, French. (Who else would eat something like that?) Now, to me,…
What would Chuck Norris do?
My first Chuck Norris film was The Octagon (1980) at a drive-in theater.