February 2012
14 posts
This Old Book
I’ve started a second Tumblr — This Old Book — devoted to interesting, obscure or forgotten books that have been kicking around on my shelves for decades now. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it up, but I do have quite a few artifacts I’d like to share, if you’re into that sort of thing.
January 2012
1 post
Non Glib: Trapped in No Man's Land →
nonglib:
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…
November 2011
5 posts
Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone¬es= →
Collection of JavaScript bookmark lets
Why Do Amazon & Apple Hate Families? →
Non Glib: More Shelves. And an Owl. →
nonglib:
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... →
zanyelephant:
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 →
minecraft-montage:
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…
October 2011
2 posts
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…
Couple Jumped Off Chelsea Pier
September 2011
1 post
9/11 Exhibit, @nytimes lobby
June 2011
1 post
The Baseball Project at City Winery
May 2011
1 post
Time's Inverted Index (Ftrain.com) →
(via Instapaper)
April 2011
1 post
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
March 2011
4 posts
A Winning Film Formula in Indonesia - Porn Stars,... →
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…
The Public Editor Joins the Cocktail Party «... →
February 2011
6 posts
#ONAnyc Panel at NYTimes
Borders Bankruptcy Sale, Park Avenue
See the full gallery on posterous
“Bless him, really, that guy who put a camera in people’s phones. He liberated...”
– Wadah Khanfar, the director general of Al Jazeera.
(The quote was unfortunately cut from the story about cell phones and protests.)
January 2011
6 posts
‘What Is This Thing Called the Web?’ →
Fifteen years ago today, on Jan. 22, 1996, The New York Times — which already had a news service behind a paywall on AOL — started its free Web site, jolting newspaper publishers and…
NBC Puts Cape on NYC Statue
Time Traveler Needs Cat Sitter →
A friend from Pennsylvania forwarded this Craiglist job ad. If you’re interested, hurry before it expires.
So many questions: What is the business in June 1983? Perhaps a modest…
THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: Picture of the Day: You... →
cjchivers:
On the day of resolutions, resolve to be.
And along the way, and if you get there, or if you already are — put it to good use.
(Don’t understand? The photograph is not talking to you? Look again, this time more closely. Focus down around this athlete’s ankles.)
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH
It’s…
December 2010
10 posts
Central Park Carriages in Snow
(10408 KB) Watch on posterous
“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
– James Thurber (via nathanielstuart)
Does Wikileaks Represent The End Of Internet... →
spytap:
More important than whether or not Assange releases the encryption key, or even what’s in the insurance file itself, is the idea behind Wikileaks. It speaks to the inherent openness of the Internet that so many mirrors have popped up in the last few days following the site’s repeated difficulties in staying online. The sheer notion that you can put Wikileaks back in its little bottle is...
‘Half-Life’ Reading at Sparks on Dec. 11 →
Are you a poetry fan? Jane Rosenberg LaForge (my wife) and three other New York area writers — Lisa Marie Basile, Britt Gambino and Jim Meirose — will present a free evening of poetry…
