Word: armchair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would Apple whet the appetite of millions of budding armchair directors, only to require a massive infusion of cash and equipment just when things start to get interesting? Maybe Jobs can devise some midrange software that will at least let you run searches on your clip file. In the meantime, I'm ready to start boring my friends and family with Carnival 2000--scaled down, less like a music video, but finished nonetheless. Let's hope those extras don't start demanding back...
...abrupt halt. Just saying hi, Swetland explains. "I'll forgo another four or five dollars just to maintain a social life out here." This 40 year-old Cantabrigian from Albuquerque, N.M., is another full-time public transport musician. Once in the "Carter Volunteer Army," this self-described "armchair traveler" has performed on platforms across the country including in San Francisco and New York, where he made his start. Swetland has had many an odd job in his time--foot messenger, fruit stand salesperson, film production assistant and sporadic stints as a writer. Claiming to have designed a rack of satirical...
...like flowers," says John Frankenheimer, pointing to a vase of flowers resting on the coffee table by the side of his armchair...
...start-up, financial site iExchange, which launched in October. Gross had been trolling online financial message boards one day last December and noticed that about 15 of every 500 postings had intriguing insights. So he decided to create a site that tracks the accuracy of stock-price predictions by armchair "analysts," allowing the advice of those with the best past predictions to bubble to the top. MORE...