█████ and I bought a 2000 Honda Accord LX early this afternoon. Less than three hours later, there was a boot on the left front tire. Chicago.
Just a quick note from O'Hare, where I'm on my way to Utah to visit my dad, who is gravely ill. If you're a member of Denvention 3 or were a member of Nippon 2007 and you haven't sent in your Hugo
A new natural gas setback here this morning. This time the leak is in a pipe in our front clothes closet. The pipe comes up through the basement, takes a bend through an elbow joint, and goes through a wall into the closet with our furnace. Well, the horizontal pipe
Last April I wrote the first draft of a story called "Care and Feeding of Your Piano." It's a short, humorous piece written entirely as excerpts from the interactive instruction manual for a bioengineered piano*. Armed with some suggestions from my writing group, I sat in
Late last week, I was going to write that the back yard is a winter palimpsest, with footprints and pawprints overwritten by successive layers of snow. I was going to write that frolicking in that world was like playing a god striding over plains and rugged mountain ranges alike, where
█████ and I have started seeing a personal trainer—and boy are my arms tired! (Bah-dum!) Of the many factors prodding us toward car ownership, this is the one that finally pushed us over the edge. It's an hour each way on the bus, with at least one
Speaking of animals, there's a cool article in today's New York Times about camouflage in cephalopods.
I would like to see someone create one of those quizzie thingies to help people tell whether their dog is a Democrat or a Republican. I'd do it myself but I don't have the bandwidth. The question occurred to me this morning as I was getting
Any Chicago folks here going to TECH cocktail this Thursday? Time Out Chicago says: [F]or Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, no element of TECH cocktail, their semi-annual networking party, is too grand. And this could explain the success of the free event for tech-industry workers, which holds
An anonymous reader points out that I did indeed hear Africa referred to as "the dark continent" on NPR last week, and that they apologized today on air: http://www.npr.org/corrections/
No, not in the sense that we're running back to New York City with our tails between our legs. But we are going to become car owners for the first time in 13 and 15 years, respectively. It stings.
I am a huge fan of the warnings and advisories from the National Weather Service. It's something about the matter-of-fact cataloging of the various ways weather phenomena can take life. These reports are marvels of terse concision, and I recommend them to anyone who delights in
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