by David | Nov 2, 2009 | media, photo, reading & writing, technology
As you may have noticed, October was a pretty poor month posting-wise here at limeduck world headquarters. I was therefore quite excited to see a new inbound link in my dashboard. I followed it and found another example of an all-too-common blogging phenomenon:...
by David | Oct 31, 2009 | culture, design, media, urbanism
There hasn’t been a halloween themed post proper on the ‘duck yet, but a series of random events (and the annual invite to GP’s house o’ horrors) have conspired to make it so. I was up at Tufts for a panel discussion called Framed:...
by David | Oct 27, 2009 | culture, eating, urbanism
I’l love to blog about Somerville’s Ball Square Fine Wines & Liquors’ recent expansion and renovation, their superior selection and the expertise of their staff. Anybody who’s been there can attest to those. Instead I shall blog about...
by David | Oct 4, 2009 | photo, transportation, urbanism
I set out last week from North Station, taking the commuter rail with legions of downtown office-workers headed home to the suburbs like Don Draper. But wasn’t headed for scotch and family, I was taking my first car-free trip to the DeCordova museum for the...
by David | Oct 3, 2009 | design
It’s been a while since we had an interesting update in the wooden electronics department, but two recent developments in the not-so-typical use of wood hit the ducky radar last week: Wooden covers for humanizing The smart and stylish humans at iamhuman have...
by David | Sep 27, 2009 | eating, reading & writing
Eruv Yom Kippur. Butter, nova lox, eating the last bialy.
by David | Sep 26, 2009 | design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
Passport in hand and GPS in car, I crossed the river into Newton. The quest was to see The Two Silences of Heaven and Earth, an exhibition of photos and paintings by Sung Won Yun at the Andover Newton Theological School. Not a place that’s on my regular...
by David | Sep 22, 2009 | eating, science!
Perhaps it’s fitting that on this preliminary Boston election day it’s time for another Bacon Technology Update. Alert porkavore Tangyslice gave me these last week: Just so there’s no misunderstanding, let’s be clear: there is no actual pork...
by David | Sep 19, 2009 | transportation, travel, urbanism
Acela express Two train on the one train’s tracks Rise to Verdi Square
by David | Sep 16, 2009 | culture, design, transportation, urbanism
Alert micturator N brought this to my attention from the xkcd blag (no, it’s not a blog, and this is not a blig), although I suppose it’s something that men just know: If everybody uses the urinal farthest away from anybody else using one, some number of...
by David | Sep 12, 2009 | urbanism, working
Looks dangerous. I wonder how fast it’ll do the Kessel Run.
by David | Sep 11, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
In the name of new experience, I accepted an invitation from fab journalista and fashionista A to attend a launch party for a new fashion TV show at the ICA. And that was before I knew there was an open bar. Apparently StyleBoston is the new thing on New England...