by David | Jul 27, 2009 | reading & writing, working
You know how when you’re trying to work, every little distraction can be maddening? There were some fruit flies buzzing around my desk, so I lashed out, Obama-like, with the only weapon at hand. The vorpal index card went splat splat splat. Further evidence of...
by David | Jul 25, 2009 | culture, economics, reading & writing
I feel bad for whoever it was in the Amazon organization who first realized that they were about to remove 1984 from peoples’ kindles. “Why couldn’t it have been The Bridges of Madison County or something?” they must have wondered. They took...
by David | Jul 3, 2009 | reading & writing
Today’s word of the day is concision. Used in a sentence…
by David | Jul 1, 2009 | reading & writing, urbanism
I’ve been repairing cafe scrabble sets for over a year now, but this is the first time I’ve gone back to a set that I previously topped up. Last March I fixed up the set at Bloc 11 cafe in Union Square. When I checked the board again in late June, I...
by David | Jun 4, 2009 | eating, economics, reading & writing, technology, working
Tonight the estimable Ken George, social media powerhouse at WBUR and impresario of Public Radio Kitchen, hosted a food blogger microconference in the lunchroom of the station. I suppose I was a bit of an impostor, as limeduck is only about 30% about food, but I was...
by David | May 20, 2009 | reading & writing, working
People like to beat up on CEOs. I figure it’s part of the job, but recently in a short span of time, I came across one article saying that CEOs don’t matter that much at all, and another suggesting that they should be boring. The Atlantic trotted out some...
