Yearly Archives: 2009

Books with Video?

The New York Times has an interesting article about a new breed of electronic books that showcase video and other multimedia. It’s an cool idea, and encouraging that it’s being driven by publishers, which have historically been slow to innovate. … Continue reading →

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Landlord Lessons: Where Not to Go to the Bathroom

This sign appears on the door that leads to our apartment building’s garage. Although the Landlord doesn’t live in the building, he spends every day in the garage/workshop area, where the recycling lessons and laundry lessons can be found. The … Continue reading →

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My Writing, Now in .pdf

I have a collection of articles, including some of the work I’m most proud of, trapped behind pay walls at various publications. I recently asked a friend with the know-how and technical tools to extract and transubstantiate them into .pdfs. Here … Continue reading →

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Landlord Lessons: How to do Laundry

While Jill and I are upstanding tenants when it comes to recycling, we evidently lack laundry skills, and were most likely the cause of the overloading and spilled-detergent lessons as well as a two-week “lock down” (not pictured) of the … Continue reading →

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Drinking Recycled Urine in Space

According to NASA, “when it comes out, it’s cleaner than most of the drinking water you have on planet earth.” Lately I’ve been obsessed with NASA video from STS-128, the current shuttle mission. Some of the video doesn’t have sound, … Continue reading →

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