by David | Dec 27, 2007 | culture, reading & writing, technology
I’ve written, sealed and stamped 53 of my new year cards. I have 43 to go, plus 17 more for which I have no postal address. I’ve cut the no address crowd in half using Google and superpages. I’ve been using Apple’s Address Book – oddly...
by David | Dec 22, 2007 | culture
As a follow-on to recent discussion about the paper accoutrements of pre-digital life, I sent my mother to the post office in the freezing cold to buy me 100 self-adhesive stamps today for my new year cards. OK, she was going anyway and I did give her money and it...
by David | Dec 17, 2007 | culture, economics, technology
Sadly, that’s not quite the same thing as “the last check I’ll ever write” but it’s not far off. I’m deep into the ebills thing. Deep. Kudos to my bank for making this service so sticky. It used to be you had to pay extra for your...
by David | Dec 9, 2007 | culture, economics
It’s winter. There’s no getting around it, denying it, bargaining with it, raging against it – it’s colder than a really cold thing. It’s also the “holiday season” when we get whipped up into a consumerist frenzy and fray our...
by David | Dec 5, 2007 | culture, reading & writing, technology, working
More synchronicities and reveries. Last week, I joined some good folks from two of my favorite TLAs, PRC and MIT for a reception at the new gallery space at MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics, which was created in collaboration with the Photographic Resource...
by David | Dec 1, 2007 | culture
I picked up J at her home on a quiet L-shaped street in Somerville and was blinded and reminded of the season by this house across the street. The proud family was gathered outside checking wiring and talking bulb sizes. People driving by stopped short, or pulled...
