by David | Jun 26, 2008 | culture, economics, media, reading & writing, transportation
Until the phone carriers and MBTA collude to spoil it, my daily subway commute is the only time that I’m completely unavailable to the outside world. No phone calls, no email, no social networks. At only three stops, the journey is too brief to really get into a...
by David | Jun 26, 2008 | working
Last week, I posted a bit of my side of Tangyslice’s story of Firstgiving’s selection of a new PR firm, and promised to talk about the thing we did that caused the most trauma to the folks pitching us. It’s hardly unique to PR that the people who...
by David | Jun 25, 2008 | design, urbanism
Walking home after dark, I meandered through Porter square along White street, and there it was, a store I hadn’t noticed before. It was closed, with no visible signage, but brightly lit within. Some kind of furniture store with lots of shelving, closet...
by David | Jun 24, 2008 | media, technology
If you’ve been following Tangyslice’s desperate quest for social media coolness, you know that he’s going on a social media bender, trying to join 100 social sites in 30 days. Back in art school, I worried about the people who seemed to be more...
by David | Jun 20, 2008 | eating
On Wednesday, as is my habit, I visited the Davis Square farm market at lunchtime, bringing along two of the office interns. After all, we have an obligation to educate them, don’t we? T picked up a potted basil plant and L some banana bread from Breadsong...
by David | Jun 19, 2008 | culture, eating, media, technology
I met up with some good folks I used to work with for our quasi-monthly “fest.” We chose Minado, an all-you-can-eat sushi and buffet joint in Natick across the street from the shiny new mall that’s too cool to call itself a mall, the Natick...
by David | Jun 18, 2008 | eating, science!, technology
OK, it’s not exactly a cheese sandwich with the image of the BVM on in, but as household miracles go, I’m thinking this one is much more useful if less lucrative. After dinner, I was looking around for a snack, and I found a nice bar of dark chocolate,...
by David | Jun 18, 2008 | photo, working
The sun came through the office windows in an interesting way this afternoon.
by David | Jun 17, 2008 | working
Perhaps you’ve been following Tangyslice’s series on Selecting a Web 2.0 PR Agency. Part one is here. [update: part III just published!] Upon return from a recent trip to London, Tangy brought me a gag gift, a 147-page, glossy, perfect bound guide to...
by David | Jun 16, 2008 | eating, urbanism
Due to some byzantine scheduling issues, I found myself at home at 11am on a Monday, hungry and needing to leave the house. Fortunately, J was also hungry, so we met up at the Central Square farmers market and then got some lunch. If you’ve been reading Grow...
by David | Jun 11, 2008 | eating, urbanism
In what is starting to become a Wednesday ritual, I visited the Davis Square Farmers Market today. It was much more lively than last week (and sunnier, too) and there was an impressive array of produce available, as the “menu” board proudly stated: I was...
by David | Jun 10, 2008 | photo, technology, travel, urbanism
As I contemplate driving 500 miles or so this weekend – more than I’ve driven in a month so far this year, I believe – my mind meanders back to cartographic matters. A random roundup of mappy clippings: I. The Globe Corner Bookstore has a Blog....
