The last word on Matt’s, now Diane’s, iPhone. After sitting in the snow and slush for two months the only noticeable problem was a quirky keypad. The numbers 4, 5, and 6, when tapped, would register the numbers above or below, unless you hit the center of the desired number and held your finger to […]
Adam alerts me Sunday mornings to worthy reads in the Globe and the online edition of the New York Times. I look forward to his links. This Sunday he asked me if I’d read about Virgin Atlantic’s clubroom at Logan. I hadn’t but promised to have a look inside the Globe Magazine after dinner. As […]
“Pesky Godson of Chicago writes: “I cannot find the words splittist or splittism in my dictionary.”
Once I realized that the sunrise was not at that conjunction but over land, I raced down the beach, but I was too late to see the sun lift off the water. Oh well, there’ll always be another time. The real question is what do I do now that I’m up? I could take pictures […]
We’re back at the Pilgrim Sands in Plymouth. This photo’s from last night and now I’m up waiting for the sunrise hoping for a clear horizon of one the sun can burn off. The above view is northeast from our deck and the overnight guy, who works two jobs, the other in Boston, tells me […]
This morning I checked cnn.com, as I do everyday, and their headline photo showed earthquake damage in St. Louis. Captivated, I read on. The center of the earthquake was 133 miles east of St. Louis. I did the math and wondered why they didn’t say the center’s in Evansville, Indiana or damn close. Christ, why […]
I agree with some of what Louise says about Mark and Ginger’s daughter Molly’s latest play “Travesties,†but if I were writing the review I would have donated more page space to the acting, which to our minds (I’m speaking for Diane too), was extraordinarily good. The best we’ve seen in any of her plays. […]
Hey Michael, Below is an email from my youngest Hannah that I would like you to share with the blog. You may recall she is over in Lugano Switzerland looking at her first choice school, Franklin College. She’ll be joined by her boyfriend Willy on Thursday and they will continue on to tour Italy. They […]
From the letters to the editor of The New York Times Book Review. (Travis, please read) To the Editor: Pamela Paul’s riveting, ribald and sophisticated review of Mary Roach’s “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex†(March 30) is accompanied by an intriguing pink portrait of a hypothetical organic molecular entity. Perhaps this molecular […]
Adam’s photo from their rental on Bailey Island.
Michael, many of your readers have probably seen the #5 article, about the itinerant island chain San Serriffe with two main islands Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse, but just in case they didn’t (no pun intended, honest – I didn’t catch it until I re-read this), I do think you should publish it or a […]
As of today, April 1, 2008, Gmail subscribers will be able to pre-date messages, mark as read or unread, and do all those things you forgot to do, like sending late birthday wishes or graduation congratulations on time. Time is limited! You have only until midnight to take advantage of this free offer. –rakkity