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 | Feb 20, 2013 | eating, urbanism
It’s like when you see a band make it big and tell all your friends about when you saw them at some dive back in the day. Some of my favorite food trucks are spawning brick and mortar establishments. Clover already has 3 or 4 falafel-dispensing locations, Mei...
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 | Jan 22, 2013 | design, technology, travel
en MacBook cover, that is. Last month, I treated myself and my new MacBook to a spiffy cedar plank of a cover from Karvt. This month, I did some flying, and that included everybody’s favorite drill, take out your computer and put it in a bin all by itself. I...
by David | Jan 21, 2013 | economics, technology, working
So, it has come to this. I am on the verge of buying a Hello Kitty flash drive and sending it to the cloud, aka Salesforce.com. Why would I so such a thing, you ask? I’ve discovered that Salesforce.com allots you 1,000 MB (that’s one gigabyte in...
by David | Jan 10, 2013 | economics, travel
With the winter holidays ahead, I decided to replace my dangerously dull moustache scissors with a fancy new pair. Stainless steel, comfort grip, finely serrated blades. My upper lip blinked and squinted in the sunlight. I recall once watching a grown man at a TSA...
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 | Dec 10, 2012 | design, transportation, urbanism
Staring at the MBTA map and letting my mind wander while waiting for the train, I noticed a repeated pattern of 4/5. There were five Green line branches, but only four survive today with the obvious gap at the start of the sequence B, C, D, E. I guess if the E line...
by David | Dec 4, 2012 | design
I think one of the greatest attributes of wood is the inherent uniqueness of each piece. I dont know why it’s not used more for mass-produced objects, since each one would then be a little bit different, just like people. Uniqueness is also coming to...
by David | Dec 3, 2012 | eating, urbanism
I got one of those mysterious messages from Lyons Communications (the people that brought you news of the giant Concord cheese wheel) that more or less said, ”you’ve got to see the gozi” will who could resist such a come-on? I set out last week with Sprout...
by David | Nov 29, 2012 | design, economics, technology
Those who were not set to sawing wood will remember that earlier this year I acquired my maguffin of wood-encased clock radio ipod dock goodness, the Vers 1.5R. I had some reservations and some revelations, and I’ve come to an accommodation with the device. For...
by David | Nov 16, 2012 | eating
Boston is a a city that lives in its past and gives directions with landmarks that used to be. So with as little irony as possible, I ventured out for lunch with gourmand B to a shop trading on the name of an 18th Century English noble, newly installed in a former...
