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A bit of history in the making

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Rocket035238The pre-dawn sky lit up like sunrise and I followed the rocket's arc with my camera as it flew high above the Florida coast. Within minutes, the shuttle was a tiny glowing orb as it entered orbit. I was lucky to have witnessed and photographed one of the final shuttle launches after 30 years of flight. Click on the photo to watch the video.

   

Randy Garbin: interactive director, diner maven

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It's not every design studio that has a nationally recognized expert in something. Randy Garbin, our interactive director, not only knows web development, he knows diners.

In fact, Randy Garbin has waxed poetically about the great American diner to various exalted media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and his own publication, Roadside Magazine.

Randy at the Little Tavern Burgers. Photo by Michael Stewart.
Randy hard at work doing the research at the Little Tavern Burgers in Laurel, Maryland. Photo by Michael Stewart.

Randy started Roadside back in 1990, not long after he bought his first Macintosh. The new machine allowed him to combine his training in graphic design and his passion for food, travel, and history. He stirred all these ingredients at the counter of Henry's Diner in Boston, Massachusetts, and dreamed up his free quarterly publication devoted to the great American diner. The first issue, dropped on the counters in about a dozen diners in Massachusetts and Connecticut, grew to a regionally-distributed exploration of America's back roads and main streets that at one time had over 20,000 subscribers.

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