June 2008
18 posts
Down the Rabbit Hole he goes
It is always a wonder when something hits the ‘tubes and it comes across your viewfinder for the first time.
Struck by its awesomeness, perhaps you then find yourself forwarding it to friends with a short note to check out the cool/profane/kitschy/novel/time-wasting/ site/video/picture/application/song/etc
Most often, you recieve multiple missives back excoriating you for not being...
Blogging from 65 mph
I am a big fan of trains - the ease of travel, the ability to stretch your legs and grab food/drink/beer from the cafe car - the interesting conversations that you invariably fall into with fellow travelers - the scenery. The list is long, however today I’m traveling via bus.
Not just any bus mind you, but the BoltBus.
See - I had to travel to NYC earlier in the week for a meeting with a...
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Congratulations to Sir Salman
When I was in high school in Washington DC at Saint Albans, I had a wonderful English teacher named Paul Piazza who made me relish the wonders of good prose and the voices that crafted them.
Often times Dr. Piazza and I would talk about different books that I had read and it was at this time that fell in love with post-coloninal South Asian authors including Salman Rushdie. I think what was most...
“an essential part of any great concert is that fleeting thrill of sharing space...”
– I’m With the Band: Weezer’s Secret Show at Oaks Park.
“‘This Is Just To Say’
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the...”
– William Carlos Williams
A truly exceptional thing.
fred-wilson:
supernice:
Tim Russert’s son, Luke, asked Barack Obama and John McCain to sit next to one another at his father’s funeral Wednesday. And they did. From the NYT -
“Then, in remarks from the pulpit, he exhorted them and other politicians to “engage in spirited debate but disavow the low tactics that distract Americans from the most important issues facing our country.” At the end...
“Me and The Boys” by NRBQ. One of the...
“24,000 people are crowding this golf course for two players.”
– NBC announcers for the US Open during Sudden Death
Courtesy of the Internet Archive, I stumbled upon...
“The Hip thing to do in International Soccer is to find a Brazilian and...”
– ESPN Euro 2008 commentators
I hate WebEx....but this might be better →
Insomnia, Twitter, Mars & the iPhone
I couldn’t sleep last night. Probably had something to do with spending the weekend in New York - New York hours and all….so I played some Fifa, caught up on the news from my iPhone (Digg, CNN, /., etc) and then remembered something I randomly stumbled upon on my way to NYC a few days ago.
I had found the new Phoenix Mars Lander twitter page and left it open in Safari on my iPhone in...
