In The Revenge of Analog author David Sax surveys a variety of businesses that were supposed to be dead by now.
Vinyl records? Sales are growing. They aren’t going to become a major force in music distribution, but it’s a significant niche with real businesses creating real jobs …
Chesapeake Requiem is a portrait of the insular community that has lived on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay for 200+ years. If you live in the eastern third of the US and have ever enjoyed a soft-shell crab you can thank the Watermen of Tangier for that crab.
Written …
Colson Whitehead’s previous book, 2016’s Underground Railroad, won a Pulitzer. The Nickel Boys might be a better book. The story follows Elwood, an African-American teenager in early 60s Tallahassee FL that dreams of going to college and living a life Dr. Martin Luther King would be proud of. That plan …
I finished up the 1619 podcast yesterday, which is a companion to the 1619 feature from the NYT. I can’t recommend this podcast series enough. It’s only 5 podcasts, about 30 minutes each. A couple of things I learned, or in some cases maybe had reinforced.
At it’s peak, slaves …
With a forecast of 59 F and blue skies on Saturday there was no way I was sitting around the house all day. It was a crisp 35 F when I started on the trail at 10:15 AM.
Overlook to the east about a mile into the hike. There …
It’s been a while since I posted a 2006 blog style rant. It’s probably full of 2006 blog style typos too. Enjoy.
Facebook: Do I even need to go here?
Google: Dropped the “Do No Evil” schtick years ago.
Apple: Uses Chinese prison labor to make $1000 status symbols
AirBnB …
Is your ink jet printer not printing well, and running the ink jet clean cycle just consumes ink without fixing the printer? I have the solution, and it’s not buy a new printer.
Hit Amazon and buy EMPTY refillable ink cartridges for your printer.
When the cartridges arrive, put 8 …
I’m pretty much over the zombie genre, but this book caught my attention because it’s a really unique take on a zombie story. The book is written from the point-of-view of the animals that are left to rule the earth as mankind dies out from a zombie virus …
I saw a blog post or email from author Dan Pink with a list of the 20 most influential books on his life. The list was mostly what you expect, except for The Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover. I had never heard of the book. Being a huge baseball …
Not really Elizabeth Warren, but me, applying her 50/20/30 budget formula to that ridiculous $350K family budget article that has been all over social media this week. Although if Senator Warren is reading this and wants to guest post here on ODonnellweb she just needs to email me …
