Monday, August 21st, 2006 Posted in currency, ridiculous | No Comments »
I admit, I haven't been the most vigilant coin-collector nerd lately. But it's August 21, and I still haven't seen a Colorado quarter. The damn thing was released in June! I ... Read more..Monday, August 21st, 2006 Posted in personal, serious, travel | No Comments »
Finally got my first Flickr set online, with photos from our recent trip to South America. Enjoy! Read more..Thursday, August 17th, 2006 Posted in serious, technology | No Comments »
Just a thought... Read more..Thursday, August 17th, 2006 Posted in grammar, words + copy, ridiculous | No Comments »
Emdash did us all the favor of pointing out a vital copy error in a post by yours truly. From the corrector: "I would have a few copyediting cavils here if ... Read more..Thursday, August 17th, 2006 Posted in literature, non-fiction, serious | No Comments »
I finished the audible.com version of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything, which had me a few paragraphs into its introduction. A few things therein were nearly identical to ... Read more..Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 Posted in grammar, words + copy, internet/multimedia, serious | 5 Comments »
I work in words. For the last nearly seven years, I've worked at various magazines and websites, and for the last month or so, at a newspaper. My realm is ... Read more..Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in personal, public transportation, ridiculous, serious, travel | No Comments »
I've been back since last Wednesday, but numerous mundane pressures have kept me from editing photos and sitting down long enough to write about the trip. So I'm doing what ... Read more..Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in politics, serious | No Comments »
It almost seems a little late, but here's what figureheads on both sides of the conflict are saying now that the truce has been enacted in Lebanon (from the NY ... Read more..Sunday, August 13th, 2006 Posted in politics, ridiculous, serious | No Comments »
Okay, the title of this post pretty much describes my condition, more or less uninterrupted, over the course of the last five and three-quarters years. That said, the defeat of an ... Read more..Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Posted in politics, serious, travel | 1 Comment »
Just back from Venezuela, barely in time to avoid the nightmare that all U.S. airports must be right now. Grateful to be back, especially for having missed that. Which brings me ... Read more..