In Lewiston, It’s a Small, Small World
Maybe it’s because we carry notebooks and write things down. We are not sure what it is that makes the people in Lewiston so open and friendly, but it’s striking. Last night we realized that every person we’ve met during our time here over the past few days knows everyone […]
Lewiston, Maine: Full of Optimists and Big Dreamers
Jack and I arrived in Auburn yesterday and checked into the Hilton Garden Inn. Then we set out to explore this city, which combined with Auburn across the river has about 84,000 residents. The first thing we noticed were some of the biggest old mill buildings we’d ever seen. These […]
Porting is Such Sweet Sorrow
I don’t know about you, but my cable bill both annoys and worries me. It seems like the better the TVs get, and even though they keep going down in price AND getting bigger, there are little strings attached and they make the bill creep up month after month. Having […]
Reddit Keeps Me Reading Late Into the Night
Sometimes the most compelling and visited sites on the Internet are lacking in any kind of design sense, and simply provide the basic information that people are looking for. Two examples: Craig’s List and Reddit.com. Once I read a story about how all of these designers were pulling their hair […]
You Want a Book? A Really BIG Book? How About Genesis?
Ebooks, schmee books. That’s what Benedict Taschen, a Cologne Germany publisher must be thinking. Thinking Big. The latest publishing endeavor for Taschen’s company involves a gigantic tw0-volume behemoth series that will chronicle a Big Adventure into the wilds of the world. Sebastiao Salgado is a Brazilian photojournalist who for the […]
Stories at Parties
I love the stories that you hear when you’re thrown into a party with dozens of strangers and just a few oasises of people you know. I went to a rockin’ party last night and here are two of the stories. A woman said she was married for ten years, […]
Time to Dig a Garden…but How Big Should it Be?
Am I digging too big a hole? Too ambitious? Am I really going to take care of and weed this big a garden? Today I set out to start my garden. Last year I was pretty cautious, planting just five or six short rows, but as so often happens, now […]