Couple Jumped Off Chelsea Pier
Non Glib: Trapped in No Man's Land
Yesterday was an exciting and mostly unproductive day in the world of traveling…just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. In a less kind country or era, I might be writing this down from the confines of (to use the words of one of my friends) a jungle prison somewhere, on the back…
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Non Glib: More Shelves. And an Owl.
Another day in my carpenter training!
Today I completed my second project, a set of boot shelves, again constructed out of scrap lumber and whatever cruft was lying around:
Not too shabby, eh? Dyson helped out quite a bit also - he did a lot of sawing of the short pieces, and hammered in…
The Travel Diaries: Ack! I’m so behind. Today I’ll be writing about last weekend (11/12)...
Ack! I’m so behind. Today I’ll be writing about last weekend (11/12) in an attempt to catch up, oh well.
Last weekend was crazy! I climbed an extinct volcano, zip lined over a waterfall, hiked down to that same waterfall and went to a volcano-heated series of hot springs. This is a picture of…
Dyson Travels: Day 20-21, Written 11/23/11
So I was SO TIRED (with caps for emphasis) so I didn’t write yesterday and the 21st. This should make it up. So aside from sitting on an algea covered rock for a hour, and having a black stain at the seat of my pants, there hasn’t been much to report. I have found a way to screw with the baby…
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
9/11 Exhibit, @nytimes lobby
The Baseball Project at City Winery
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass (via nefffy)
The Public Editor Joins the Cocktail Party
Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor of The New York Times, turned his attention this week to the newsroom’s use of Twitter. He quoted from an e-mail interview with me, which I am posting in…
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