I followed a link recently and found this interesting blog post at The Art of Manliness. It explores the ways that twenty famous men used pocket notebooks-perhaps the equivalent of today’s ubiquitous smartphone. The use of such notebooks at one time was very common, according […]
I know it sounds old school, but I love Tweed–Harris Tweed to be exact. But from what I read in the latest Esquire magazine, Tweed is in again this fall. It goes to show that if you hold onto something long enough, it comes back […]
I recently stumbled across this Web site: Bookshelf Porn. For the bibliophile, it surely is. Each day a new set of bookshelves is highlighted in a collection of photos. Click through this link, and you can see an amazing 3D panoramic shot inside this library.
I’m still waiting for the new 3G version of the iPad to arrive in stores. (Word has it that they will be available at the end of the month.) I’ve been seeing a lot of video of the iPad in the wild, but this has […]
It’s almost time for outdoor baseball once again in Minnesota! Go Twins! (I love the cameo by former Vikings coach Bud Grant)
I’ve been a Pat Metheny fan for a long time, so I was really excited to learn last year that he was working on a new project. His CD is out, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s called Orchestrion, bringing new meaning to […]
It’s been a very busy month, so I am sorry I haven’t posted in quite some time. Part of my time away was due to a trip to this year’s U.S. Open. This has to be the shot of the tournament; the shot of a […]
I turned 40 today. I’ve been thinking about my 40th birthday over the past few weeks. It’s one of those birthdays that makes one stop and take note-at least it did for me. What would I say to people should they ask me why I […]
A co-worker sent this to me this morrning; this is hilarious. What if Nora Ephron directed The Shining instead of Stanley Kubrick? Here’s the trailer. Now I want to see what he would do with a Jerry Bruckheimer film.
