Once again, I find myself too busy to write up reviews as much as I’d like to. So here’s a simple list of books I’ve recently read.. Think On My Words, by David Crystal: A discussion of Shakespeare’s use of language. The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson: The life of Pythagoras and the [...]

My son has been obsessed with the trading card game Magic: The Gathering for a couple of years now. So, this weekend, I set up a blog on the subject for him. It’s the Dragon Guardian Magic: The Gathering Blog. He and one of his friends have been filling it with great content. If you [...]

I just added an interesting toy to this blog, that I read about in an I, Cringely column. It’s called the Talkinator, and you can see it in the upper left hand of this page, in the Wordpress sidebar. (Of course, I may get bored with it sometime in the future, and take it down, [...]

Lisa and I have been doing work on a site we created a few years ago when we were redoing our home, called The Short and Long of Home Renovation.

My son spent the week at Boy Scout Camp Barton, near Ithaca. I took the day off on Friday to drive there and pick him up. It’s about two hundred and fifty miles away from our home on Long Island. On the way up, I made a detour into the Poconos and took a [...]