Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!
We aren’t camping …
About 30 pages into this book, I had a brief thought that I didn’t care that the book won a Pulitzer, there was no way I was reading 400+ pages about surfing.
I finished the book. Surfing is the star of probably 90% of the pages in the book …
Set in 1969 and 1989, South of Broad is essentially a love letter to Charleston. It’s a sweeping story of a set of unlikely friends that meet in high school in 1969 and are still friends in 1989, although given the asshole factor in some of these characters you certainly …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
