This morning I decided to open the cafe to just Cindy and me. Despite a regular customer who popped by wanting a coffee, “Sorry, we’re closed,” we have the cozy cafe all to ourselves, and we made omelettes, read the NY Times and enjoyed lattes and good music from the […]
After the season’s first real snowfall, New England woke up with a smile on its face. Hunkered down in Green Lane’s basement, I read the Wall St. Journal account of how a new novel will be marketed. I saw the same book featured in the Costco magazine, so this title […]
Today’s Wall St. Journal included more evidence that yes, Wal-Mart is going green. This might be window dressing for the behemoth corporation that faces bad press over wages, but I think this is the beginning of a paradigm shift in how people view the environment. In a speech in London, […]
Today I’m up a little earlier than usual for a morning shift at the cafe. The light outside is golden, the air is chilled. I picked up the Gazette and found a story about a dog at work. This brings back memories of E-S Sports, where Frank Suher used to […]
I read about traffic cameras in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal in a column by Holman W. Jenkins Jr. He writes that the American Automobile Association has turned against them—it’s because these ubiquitous cameras, placed in the beginning to help police against muggings, have turned into money machines for governments. One […]
These sonic boom photos are by Andreas Zeitler, Flying Wings, and published on airliners.net.
You can hear a sonic boom when a jet exceeds the speed of sound. But have you ever seen one? I think these photos, sent to me by Eric Jayne, are indeed the real thing. He’s the type of guy who understands these things.
I always relish the chance to sit down with the latest issue of Wired Magazine. This month’s issue, with a new redesign that I’m not wild about, did not disappoint–I read about underwater logging in British Columbia. Back in 1954, Ootsa Lake was created to power a hydroelectric dam for […]
I wrote a letter to a local newspaper to complain. We get a stack of the local weekly newspaper here at the cafe, and every time someone goes to pick one up, a sheaf of ugly ad inserts falls out. There is no way around it, they always fall down […]
I am glad to know I’m not the only one who has this experience. I walk into my local Costco store to stock up on cafe supplies and often emerge with some huge extravagance that I had no intention of buying. Today’s NY Times had a story about ‘the Costco […]
Yesterday I grabbed a paintbrush and changed the color of my bedroom to an olive “GoNOMAD” shade of green. Francisco, my sturdy son-in-law, did most of the work but I helped turn my crappy white walls into a terrific new shade. Today we tackle the harder part of doing the […]
David Reynolds of Wendell is trying to develop and market a system of widescale geothermal power with a 100 mile long tunnel.