I saw in this morning’s Times-Dispatch the celebratory headline that Richmond’s standing in annual crime ratings has improved: City ranks as safer in crime survey. According to the Morgan Quitno Press, we’ve gone from the fifth most dangerous city in America to the 15th. Progress is progress, I suppose. On the other [...]
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Reporter Piper Weiss - I love that name - penned an article in today’s New York Daily News titled What a tangled Web we weave: Being Googled can jeopardize your job search. I read the headline and thought that was a pretty obvious thing, but she raised a point I hadn’t thought of before.
Brief [...]
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3:35pm today:
Cold caller: “Hi, this is Tiffany from Girls Gone Wild. Mr. Sterling, do you watch adult entertainment?”
Me: Ha! How did you get my, ah… I mean, why are you…oh my God! [Deep breath] Look, I really don’t want to be on your call list. Please take my name [...]
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Last night I went to Barnes & Noble looking for a book of poems to buy for the son of a friend. Some of my fonder literary recollections from childhood are verses of Ogden Nash, so I figured that was a promising route.
I went to the poetry section, but no Nash was to be [...]
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I saw that sac mentioned “Stacy Noblog” in a sort-of recent post and it piqued my curiosity about the durability and spread of the “Stacy Noblog” meme.
Some background, first. “Stacy Noblog” is a monicker crafted by me and Eurotrash a few years ago during a night of drunken excess - the only kind [...]
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There’s a terrific investigative article by Matthew Fleischer in the most recent L.A. Weekly. Called Navahoax, it unmasks the celebrated Navajo author “Nasdijj” as a Michigan-born Anglo named Tim Barrus.
Sherman Alexie is quoted extensively in the article, as probably the first prominent literary figure to realize that Nasdijj was full of crap. [...]
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…Captain Lou Albano has his very own Wikipedia entry.
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I recently installed a piece of open source software called phpGedView. “GEDCOM” is the database tagging system developed a few decades back by the Mormon Church, which is big into genealogy and retroactive baptism of the ancestors of its converts. The phpGedView code base takes existing GEDCOM files and makes them easy to [...]
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We soft-launched R804 this morning.
And by “we” I mean myself and the five or six people who have helped me with their insight and criticisms over the last month or two. I had the product ready to go a month ago, but tweaking here and there as a result of the input [...]
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All three of my uncles and my maternal grandfather Harry Ten Broeck made careers of electrical work or electrical engineering. One of my uncles helped build Telsat, and my grandfather installed the electrical conduit that powers the lights atop the Chrysler Building. Harry’s father Charles was a book printer on Manhattan’s Lower East [...]
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