The Bark Park
September 30th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Home, Travelogues |
Experts agree that Maplewood’s new dog park is the cat’s meow.
Nice Place To Visit
September 27th, 2006 | 4 Comments | Art, Home, Travelogues |
My friend Andy took this picture of downtown Cleveland this morning. Nice, eh?
I have a few prints of his photos hanging on my wall. There are more here.
Ironic E-Mail
September 27th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
Not that I have anything against these guys, I’m on their list on purpose. But this particular solicition made me chuckle (but in a knowing and sympathetic way), because it’s for their Usability Seminar.
The Road
September 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books |
Post-apocalyptic fiction in its postwar versions has at least two common threads. One is, they tend to be cautionary tales. The most common of course being the threat of nuclear annihilation. There are too many examples of that to even list. But others themes include, “it’s not nice to mess around with germs” (”28 Days [...]
New Cormac McCarthy Book Releases Tuesday
September 25th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books |
I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw Janet Maslin’s review of a new book by McCarthy, “The Road,” on the front page of the Times’ Arts section this morning.
Hoboken Art & Music Fest
September 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Food, Music |
While not officially part of the festival, Big Train will be playing four sets between 3 and 7 p.m. at Scotland Yard in Hoboken. If you find yourself in Hoboken on Sunday, September 24, tear yourself away from the nobodys playing on the big stages for a little while and stop by and say hello.
The Manchurian Candidate
September 23rd, 2006 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Movies |
If you haven’t seen this movie, get up, go to the video store and rent it.
New Newsfeed
September 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |
My new newsfeed cherrypicks some items from blogs I read as well as news and postings on topics that I find interesting, such as astronomy, the New York Yankees and of course politics.
This Is A Bit Of Overkill, Isn’t It?
September 19th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
I was reading the news this morning, and I noticed this entry on Yahoo! News:
Now I find myself wondering: since when do you need a cute little icon, double underlining and a popup tool-tip to inform you that clicking on a hyperlink will give you “Related Information”?
Electronic Voting Revealed
September 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Politics, Tech Stuff |
This is in many ways the scariest story of the year. The problem of insecure electronic voting machines has long been dismissed as the ravings of the tin-foil hat crowd; but it is going to be huge in the next few weeks, as RFK Jr.’s lawsuit proceeds and these new findings by computer scientists at Princeton gain an audience. Now even Fox News has run a story on it. Stay tuned.
Borrowing Is The Point
September 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Music |
The Times’ story about Dylan’s borrowing of lines from a Civil War-era poet may find its way into your paper this morning. Don’t fall for the premise: The history of the creative arts is the story of one artist building on the works of another. Allusions, quotations, and borrowings are what makes literature, and especially, music so rewarding.
This is fairly arcane, but…
September 14th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |
A multi-day wrestling match with CubeCart finally ends. You can usually find the answer to a programming question on the net … the problem is figuring out what the right question is.
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