I comment that most of us walk past celebrity on a daily basis and then my own family provides an example. We congregated in Cincinnati for the weekend, and one of our Philly cousins was at a loss to explain the chaos surrounding her flight’s arrival in the Queen City. “Some [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2005
Yes and the Round
Yes-heads will immediately note that the late 70s tour was “Yes in the Round” and I’ve botched the title. But I spent the early part of this evening thinking about the various circles of Yes-dom and how they intersect. I’ve previously written about the intermediation of various circles of interests, ranging [...]
New York Anonymity
Tim Bray and I met for lunch and a software synchronization in the Big Apple this past Wednesday. Getting us together in the same time zone is difficult, with my north/south travels and Tim’s shuttling between the Far East, the Northwest and center of the journalistic universe (city names have been elided so [...]
Ending A Streak
Much of what we do is physical, directed by the mental. When we’re on a streak, it seems the physical is dominated by the mental; we aren’t winning because we can’t win, or we are winning because, quite simply, we’re too {good, strong, smart, cool} to lose. This is true for [...]
Vacation Reading
Just got back from a week of much-needed vacation in Aruba. Our first time to that wonderful country, but definitely not the last. The confluence of Dutch, Spanish, Caribbean and American cultures is fantastic; where else can you see a 300 year old fort with a Dunkin’ Donuts across the street?
Spent most of [...]
