First, I survived the commute yesterday. The right combination of clothes makes everything better. Slate’s Chris Suellentrop outlines what the Social Security debate should be about. Today’s Post-Gazette has an interesting piece on Pittsburgh’s third places.
Posted on January 18th, 2005 by admin
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There are mornings when I just don’t look forward to riding to work. This morning is one of them. I don’t even want to check the weather, because there’s no good news there. I suspect the temperature is hovering just about zero, minus the wind chill. At least the city made the rounds on the […]
Posted on January 17th, 2005 by admin
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Mother nature is currently throwing the kitchen sink at me, trying to get me to relent and take the bus. The local paper noted that during the first eleven days of the new year, we had eight days of rain. This week has been generally rainy, with terrible conditions yesterday (constant rain and temperatures in […]
Posted on January 12th, 2005 by admin
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Posted on January 11th, 2005 by admin
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Jen and I don’t frequent Mimi Smartypant‘s weblog much anymore (for various reasons), but I happened to look at her site the other day and came upon this astute observation: Things are kind of hard right now. I feel a dreadful split (oh great, now I am the one being all Lord Byron/heavy metal dramatic. […]
Posted on January 9th, 2005 by admin
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The group blog project is on the move, and it should be up and running sometime next week. The initial email message I sent about the project started a huge, engaging discussion about what the focus and goals of the blog should be. The biggest point of discussion was whether the project should be explicitly […]
Posted on January 7th, 2005 by admin
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I’ve been mulling the idea of some sort of neocalvinist (for lack of a better word) group blog, something in the vain of Crooked Timber, where like-minded, culturally-aware Christians could exchange ideas in a single location. Today, after Gideon Strauss’ discussion of the concept of the blog as the dialogical coffee house, I decided to […]
Posted on January 4th, 2005 by admin
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It seems some geeks and tech-heads have banded together to help restore internet connectivity to areas hit by the tsunami. While this sounds noble, isn’t it true that the people most effected by the tsunami and the earthquake are least likely to have been connected (as in connected to the internet) in the first place? […]
Posted on December 29th, 2004 by admin
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The news coming from Asia about the amount of destruction caused by a tsunami is staggering. Slate had this bit of information this morning: The Los Angeles Times online initially used the term “tidal waves” (as did TP), but as the Wall Street Journal explains in a tsunami Q&A, these waves weren’t caused by tides. […]
Posted on December 27th, 2004 by admin
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Challenger Excellent electro-noise pop.
Posted on December 26th, 2004 by admin
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