Archive for May, 2009
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Monday, May 25th, 2009Matthew Crawford’s weekend Times piece on the Zen of manual labor seemed to have struck a chord with many people. The writing’s as sturdily tempered, and precise, as the tools he describes using to repair Italian motor-cycles; if nothing else, it could tempt an information-worker or two to abandon the cubicle for a little bit [...]
The Devil Made Me Do It. I Have Documents
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009In the elevator, heading up to the apartment:
“How’d you find this person?”
“Craigslist.”
“You talked to them on the phone, right? We’re dealing with a normal civilian, not some criminal pervert who spends their weekends with a stack of Hannah Montana videos and a bottle of hand lotion?”
“I am so glad you’re getting your sense of humor [...]
Random Notes
Monday, May 18th, 2009Worth using, if you just happen to need a couple gigabytes worth of raw mathematical power.
Worth reading.
Worth buying; because there is no better cure for the blues than watching a certain alcoholic midget defend peace and liberty one ludicrously insane beat-down at a time.
The Too-Much-Information Age
Saturday, May 9th, 2009The other day an email dropped into my inbox from a student at my former high school. “We don’t want your money!” it proclaimed in the subject line; upon opening it, I found that a few current denizens of my former institution of higher learning were writing an article about my dad, who’s a teacher [...]
Moonshot from Sopranos-land
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009So I wrote an essay based on a blog piece I wrote based on my great-grandfather’s World War I journal, and it ended up published in the May issue of Lost, an online literary magazine of which I’ve been a passionate addict for years, ever since they excerpted Mary Roach’s excellent nonfiction tome “Spook” back [...]