Calvin and Hobbes has been back in the Boston Globe ever since the demise of Garfield.
My mixed feelings about it at the time has taken a dive towards the
negative, not because the strips are no good, but because the syndicate
that’s now recycling old strips seem to be doing so with little respect
for the material. For [...]
While digging around looking for a letter of recommendation I had
once
written for someone, I stumbled across a website I had written based on
the freelance coaching and editing I’d done after college for folks
applying to college, business school, and law school. Looking at it
now, I think the advice is pretty sound, and what’s more, a lot [...]
Well, the house is gone with only the basement left to mark its passing. That, and some poor laborer’s partially severed leg…
Apparently, on Friday morning, one of the laborers taking apart the
house cut his leg badly with a saw (this, I admit, is hearsay from the
neighbors). This picture taken on Thursday morning (you can still [...]
Right before our vacation we received a letter in an envelope with
the words “Demolition Notice” on it that appeared mildly threatening.
Upon inspection it turned out to be a legitimate notice that the house
behind us would be demolished in the upcoming week. I was somewhat
disappointed to be missing this demolition, as I had visions in my [...]
We got our photos back from the shop
today and started the arduous process of editing and loading them to
our website. (There are only so many captions you can come up with for
“Climbing up the mountain”). With a little more elbow grease (except
that elbows don’t have much to do with computers) we should have them
all loaded [...]
A week ago yesterday Rachel and I completed the Sportshoe Center
Maine
Half Marathon. Coming in at 1:49:01 and 2:04:58, respectively, Rachel
and I weren’t exactly speed demons (we placed 425 and 834 out of 1296),
but I think I set a PR. While I can’t find my time in the San Francisco
Chronicle Half Marathon (it was screwed up [...]
