Then again he went down to the frozen waters of Big Moose Lake to see if he could be seen. And when he determined that he could not see or be seen, he returned to the lean-to of branches he built against the uprooted base of a fallen pine tree. He knelt, in the shelter, [...]
The few cured leaves pinch, With forefinger and thumb. Those little daredevils do tempt the wind to come. And as they float in place, The white sun does rise; They play it like a cinema for his looking eyes.
Sam sat on the ledge of building 400 on his college campus. He had kept a key after being a physics TA during his junior year and made his way to the roof when he needed mental space. Sam felt like he was on top of a great pinnacle. An old fashioned modern marvel of [...]
That’s Lindsey and me warming our hands on cold winter Sunday evening. The kind of evening that we should be inside making a pot roast and drinking red wine. Instead, we’re outside trying to make a small fire larger so that we can eat more sugar and chocolate . . . s’mores!!!! This is one [...]
Today, I learned that the lords of the internet will be approving for sale new top-level domain names. For example, the following are common top-level domain names currently permitted: .com, .net, .org, .biz. Many of us are accustomed to the dot-com boom (and bust) and the colloquialized terms and references relating thereto. What the introduction [...]
Another week of firsts in home ownership for us. This week we got the water softener up and running, which was as easy as adding salt to the bin. Now, in addition to shuffling 50-pound bags of sand and salt around the long driveway, I get to lug 40-pound bags of high-quality 98.5 percent pure [...]
The Elusive Big Idea – NYTimes.com. In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world [...]
One: Last night, Lindsey and I finished watching The Apartment starring Jack Lemon. It won five Academy Awards in 1960 and has a handful of good quotes. Here are a few: J.D. Sheldrake: Ya know, you see a girl a couple of times a week, just for laughs, and right away they think you’re gonna [...]
That lovable guy to the right is Monsieur Yogi Bear Rogers, and he is either testing the purity of the snow or expressing his feeling towards us for not naming the house after him. (The condo was named, “Chez Yogi Bear – Mr. Slobber Face.” Or something like that.) While Yogi was braving the blizzard, [...]