The AP had this story today. “An armless man stopped for speeding was driving with one foot on the steering wheel and another on the pedals, a policeman testified in court. Colin Smith, who was born without arms and has never held a driver’s license, appeared in court Thursday charged […]
We woke up late today at Nat and Val’s house in Blawenburg. The season is ahead of our colder New England climate, so her garden is in full bloom. One thing I’m always amazed about when I visit here is the smorgasbord of reading materials at hand. The New Yorker, […]
It’s already a steamy day, a Friday, a day of travel and anticipation. We’re on our way down to visit the family in Jersey, a ritual done at least every six months, but one that always excites me. I am the only member of my family who lives far away, […]
Laura Crimaldi writes with charming righteousness in the Boston Herald about an Andover woman who cheated welfare and stole panties from Victoria’s Secret. “A brazen lingerie hustler who lived luxuriously for years in an Andover gated community while bilking $117,500 in welfare from taxpayers is still tooling around in a […]
Paul Maidment writes in Forbes.com about a meeting of newspaper execs facing the new Internet publishing world. “Even the mighty minds behind Google took several years to realize that they were a media company, not a tech company. But they and their fellow West Coasters have invented a new way […]
Seth Stevenson writes in Slate about taking mushrooms in Amsterdam, the day before he was flying home to the US. “I’m in an H&M, on the edge of the socks and accessories aisle, when the drugs begin to take hold. My body starts to yell at me: “Something is happening! […]
I came home this afternoon and there was a rare message for me on the home answering machine. Rare because nobody ever calls me at my home number, they know I am always at the office or on the cell. I listened to the voice on the tape…it wasn’t familiar, […]
Ryan Seacrest was profiled in today’s NY Times by Lola Ogunnaike. The Idol host gets up at 4 am to do a radio show, then works for E! and has his hands in lots of other things–including hosting duties on the #1 show on TV. “Equity, ownership, production fees, license […]
Tonight I watched TV for a long while, beginning with the Making It Here episode that was taped in October about GoNOMAD. It was a rush to watch it after such a long time in coming. I kept expecting myself to stumble on a word, or botch up something but […]
On Sunday I read the entire new issue of Wired, and found many fascinating ideas to ponder. One was Crowdsourcing, a new trend that uses the masses to achieve what was once only done by professionals. In corporate R&D, for example, Procter and Gamble employ more than 9000 scientists and […]
Today is a grey day, but a great day to read the news on the laptop. The NY Times had a story about a tough summer for air travelers. “Airlines, still struggling because of high fuel prices, have been able to raise fares because of the tight capacity. David Strine, […]
