For as much as I like Apple, I hold a certain disdain for their retail stores. I’m sure you have experienced the overcrowded, over heated, wall-to-wall people atmosphere inside an Apple Store. Like a meat market, you need to take a number to be served, then wait upwards of a half-hour or more to see [...]

It was a sunny, breezy Sunday afternoon. In fact it turned out to be a very lazy, sunny, breezy Sunday afternoon. Me and my friend Joe hung out at the beach which was being battered by 10 to 15 foot waves and swimming was not an option. So, after laying in the sun for much [...]

While shutterbugs in south Florida trying to snap photos of visiting celebs on Super Bowl Sunday, a large pellican enjoyed a few minutes of stardom as he made a unexpected appearance on the pool deck at the Boca Raton Resort & Club‘s beach club. After spending a minute in the pool, the large bird paused [...]

In marketing we love to use descriptors that make us feel good, such as “world’s greatest” or “America’s favorite.” But we all know it’s just one big pile of pig slop. Just look in your own neighborhood and count the number of sub shops that claim to have the “World’s Greatest Cheesesteak.” We buy into [...]

Thanksgiving. The day of the year that officially kicks off the holiday season where we’re all supposed to stop and give pause to everything we’re thankful for. It’s also the day where every business you’ve bought something from within the past 365 days sends you an email thanking you for being one of their valuable [...]

Just a little while ago, I’m sitting here at my Boca Raton, Florida “office” working on a bunch of different things while at the same time enjoying the warm sun, the ocean breeze and a frozen lemonade, when all of a sudden a flurry of green caught my eye. I grabbed my trusty Canon PowerShot [...]

[gplayer href="http://www.scottsanfilippo.com/wp-content/audio/blog-bird.mp3" ] [/gplayer] So I’m sitting at my cabana at the Boca Beach Club enjoying a simply gorgeous Sunday afternoon watching the ocean’s waves crash on the shore and suddenly I hear another crash I wasn’t expecting. A black bird, flew head-on into a glass panel that makes up the balcony. I had an [...]

The hurricane season in south Florida proved to be uneventful, which for me is good. However, just as we’re ready to put an end to the season, a wicked woman by the name of Ida is churning in the North Atlantic and the entire state of Florida is in the cone of probability. She is [...]

Headbanger’s Holiday Yesterday was Halloween, the one day a year when kids think the world owes them a sugar high. I don’t get the whole “Halloween thing.” Yes, as a child I too dressed up in ridiculous looking costumes, parading down the street and ringing doorbells at night singing silly ditties looking for a handout. [...]

What a wild weekend. I closed on my new townhouse in Delray Beach, FL on Tuesday and managed to move everything from my old condo in Palm Beach in just one day. Granted I felt like a gypsy driving a convertible overflowing with suitcases full of my belongings, but if it weren’t for a car [...]