Night and Day

Fluffy clouds and waxing gibbous moon over Miami. Things really are different in the tropics.

Risking Shrinkage for a Good Cause

I’m off to Miami this weekend to attend a wedding and maybe sneak in some additional cultural or culinary fun. While I’m in the sunshine state sipping mojitos poolside, some people here in Massachusetts (and elsewhere) will be immersing themselves in the...

Hooray, it's Pancake Day

As soon as I got the text message from C,  “Tuesday is national pancake day”  I knew where I would be tonight.  The fact that the International House of Pancakes was celebrating mere National Pancake Day was not about to rain on my buttermilk parade. And...

The Types that Bind

I was sitting in class, having completed an exercise a little early, and this doodle appeared, more or less unbidden, under my mouse. Cold and hungry, I guess. Notice what’s happening with the “ffl” in “waffles” That’s a typographic...

Wood is the new White

In computers and related devices, for a long time, things were pretty much grey, black and silver in some kind of rotation until the ipod and imac made white the new black. Periodically, a hot cell phone or other device makes a signature color briefly hip.  Then Apple...