by David | Apr 1, 2013 | culture, eating
You know I like a good sandwich and a good story. I was at Cafe Rustico in the Bullfinch Triangle pondering the menu and I noticed that all the sandwiches were pretty much named for their contents – pollo, rucola, meatball – but one was named for a...
by David | Mar 18, 2013 | culture, working
You know you’ve been working on a blog post too long when it gets published in The New Yorker written by somebody else. Marissa Mayer of Yahoo has gotten some flak for calling all her working at home employees back into the office, or else. Surowiecki writes in...
by David | Jan 31, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo
I am sitting in a room probably very different from the one you are in now. I am sitting on a metal glider swing in the front parlor of a Somerville home facing two intensely bright lamps and listening to recorded sounds of nature. It’s artist Lyn...
by David | Dec 12, 2012 | culture, design
It’s been some time since we had some decent ducking news around here, and drought was offically broken by @fartingduck with his retweet of this item: BREAKING: THERE IS A MASSIVE YELLOW DUCK FLOATING DOWN THE THAMES I retweeted too, because, well, who...
by David | Jul 23, 2012 | culture, design, economics
File under quietly brilliant. I needed to move some books, a lot of books, so I started to look around for some boxes. Professor M suggested twine. Check it out: a simple double loop of twine is a flexible, reusable, and perhaps most important, easy to store book...
by David | May 5, 2012 | culture, eating
Nothing hits the spot on a chilly spring morning like a warm mug of some beverage and a pastry. It’s even better if the pastry is warm too. Visiting the Netherlands back in the day, I got to know the stroopwafel, a cookie/pastry/waffle that sits atop your hot...
