Of the two boys that I know that have lived in my house as small children, exactly 50% know the difference between Nepal and Tibet.
Sadly, the one who knows is the one still in Kindergarten and learning to read; the one who does not has a nice office in the West Wing of the White […]
Zaha Hadid, who designed an addition to the Price Tower Arts Center, has been chosen for a possible addition to the Guggenheim stable of museums.
The architect Zaha Hadid was selected on Wednesday to design a proposed museum, above, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The competition is part of a feasibility study by the Guggenheim Foundation and […]
Opening day
Because Minor League baseball is real baseball — the majors exist only to give the great minor league players the rewards they richly deserve.
Go Hens!
One day, the story of how, on the eve of my unemployment benefits expiring, I had an interview with the mayor of Toledo, Ohio — for a great, well-paying job — and then totally blew it will be very funny. But that day is not today.
Also, the estimate to replace my roof is $8,000 — […]
Update The upgrade is finished, and it looks like I didn’t break anything too badly. I still have to work on the tags and categories, but I won’t get to that until later today and Monday.
If you have any trouble, let me know.
I will be updating the software running this site tomorrow morning. If it’s […]
Arthur C. Clark died at age 90.
Clark wrote, with Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odessey, the masterpiece of modernism.
Richard Perle in Sunday’s New York Times:
I had badly underestimated the administration’s capacity to mess things up.
A) Ya think?
B) If anyone knows screwing up, it would be Richard Perle.
Are you smarter than a dustmote?
The volume of existing-home sales is expected to hold steady through late spring, with a gradual recovery during the second half of the year as the mortgage situation improves in high-cost areas, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of Realtors®. Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said many buyers […]
With the Ohio primary approaching, Hilary and Obama nearly omnipresent on the TV, newspaper and radio (McCain seems to be afraid of unemployed manufacturing workers — nearly all of Toledo) and Gabe has decided he wants to President when he grows up.
He even made his first policy pronouncement: he wants to mandate the study of […]