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Monthly Archives: March 2006
iPod Ching
My mini iPod knows all, sees all, tells … some.
Happy feet
People have many reasons to be glad that Nordstrom is coming at last to the Pittsburgh area. You can guess why I’m excited.
Get off of my cloud
Did you think I’d be able to stick to my “I’ll add only 15 books to LibraryThing each day” promise? If you did, I hope you didn’t put money on it, because you’ll have to pay up. I couldn’t sleep last night, so I added a few more books — about a hundred. I think …
Either dreams or swords
I am incredibly busy, as evidenced by my lack of recent posting here and here and here. And so when Syntax of Things described the time-consuming diversion that’s slowing his packing for an impending move, I seized on it like a drowning swimmer. And so now I’ve started cataloguing my collection of booksin LibraryThing. Check …
Gladwell online
Recently Pittsblog pointed out that ESPN’s Page 2 had published a two-part email interview by Bill “The Sport Guy” Simmons of Malcolm Gladwell, an interview which mentioned Pittsburgh sports a few times but ranged from baseball to writing to the horrors of Las Vegas. You know I have my issues with Simmons, but I agree …
I bought you a present
The latest advance in espionage is sonar-controlled spy sharks: The Pentagon is funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into ‘stealth spies’ capable of gliding undetected through the ocean, a report says. The research, outlined in this week’s issue of New Scientist builds on experimental work to control animals by …
iToaster
Yesterday Apple Computer released a snazzy new product. It looks like this: Very clean and pretty, but what is it? A boom box, like the one I listened to nonstop from 1982 through 1985 (until I finally invested in a multi-component stereo system with one of those new-fangled CD players — sweet!) Some kind of …