by David | Apr 6, 2013 | culture, reading & writing, science!
Via Jen 8 Lee for national poetry month, NY Times Haiku. I learned via professor N’s instant message that the estimable Jennifer 8 Lee tweeted a piece about the New York Times’ creation of a Haiku bot. I like that the Nieman Lab article felt compelled to...
by David | Apr 3, 2013 | photo, reading & writing
Minimal design and perfect material. Alvin Brass Bullet.
by David | Mar 10, 2013 | reading & writing, urbanism
Last week, I spent an engaging hour at True Grounds with the estimable YobYot (or is that yoByoT?) who wrote an embarrassingly nice post about that day on his own blog. It’s shameful that I only just noticed. I won’t bore you with the details of two guys...
by David | Nov 12, 2012 | reading & writing
You may think that domestic cats are nocturnal, but you’d not really be right. In fact, you’d be wrong, they are crepuscular, which means they are most active whenever you are trying to work or sleep during the twilight hours around sunset and sunrise. The...
by David | Oct 21, 2012 | reading & writing, science!, technology
I’ve been a huge fan of E ink for ten years now. I visited the company’s Cambridge office back when I was in business school and was very impressed with the technology. So when the original Kindle hit the market a couple of years ago, I was very...
by David | May 25, 2012 | reading & writing, technology, working
Do they teach email writing in school? They certainly did not when I was in school, perhaps because there was no email back then. I suspect they still dont’t teach anything about email except maybe how to change the fonts and click the send button. I’m...
