by David | Apr 29, 2008 | design, reading & writing, technology, transportation, urbanism
Let me call to your attention two excellent maps that in my humble opinion should make sweet cartographic love and spawn a mashup of some sort. This confluence of maps, blogs and public transportation has got the limeduck quacking loudly. First up, Boston Blogs’...
by David | Apr 28, 2008 | culture, reading & writing
I used to think people who scoured the access logs on their personal web sites were a little odd. I know why you’d do that for work, but why do it on your own time? Well, now I’m one of them. And while looking over a list of recent limereaders, I found...
by David | Mar 30, 2008 | reading & writing
As you may recall, earlier this month, I discovered that scrabble players at Bloc 11 Cafe were not playing with a full deck, and resolved to do something about it. My ebay purchase arrived earlier this week, and today I went back to Bloc 11 and audited their scrabble...
by David | Mar 30, 2008 | eating, reading & writing
It recently came to my attention that I have become a spokesperson for Lake Champlain Chocolates. Specifically, they have taken a liberal quote from this very blog and featured it on their chocolaty web site. [Looks like Lake C have updated their site with a different...
by David | Mar 18, 2008 | reading & writing
Strunk & White are quite clear on the matter. 5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma. If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon....
by David | Mar 9, 2008 | eating, reading & writing
It’s been quite a literary and culinary weekend. Friday night was Book Club, featuring Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, backed up by poached salmon with couscous and red and gold beets, spinach salad, garlic bean soup and a purchased dessert assortment of...
