The design of this site has been pretty much the same since I bought the domain in 2000, when I hastily put the site up to help with a job search. I’ve been wanting to redesign for years, and lately wanted to add new features and switch over to PHP. Anyway, I finally decided to …
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld (Slate) Until now, the secretary’s poetry has found only a small and skeptical audience: the Pentagon press corps. Every day, Rumsfeld regales reporters with his jazzy, impromptu riffs. Few of them seem to appreciate it. But we should all be listening. Rumsfeld’s poetry is paradoxical: It uses playful language to …
“Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you’re about as likely to find someone else interested in it.” — The Ultimate Blog Post (Lore Sjöberg @ Wired)
Flickr has added a pretty cool feature to their site: geotags let you can point out on a map exactly where you took a photo. (FlickrBlog has all the details.) For example, take my photo of the Zakim Bridge: Under “Additional Information” in the right part of the page it says “Taken in East Cambridge, …
You might already know that I’m a fan of sidearm & submarine pitchers. Yesterday Jill & I took Amelia to Fenway Park (for her first time) to see “Futures at Fenway”: a doubleheader of Sox minor league teams Lowell Spinners and Pawtucket Red Sox. We only stayed for the Spinners game (who won 3-1), but …
Great Sox game last night! When the 9th inning came around with the Sox down by 2, I told Jill “If Ortiz gets a chance to bat, he’ll either tie it or win it.” Of course, I’m not the only one who thought that: But when Ortiz stepped to the plate last night, everyone in …
Amelia got some new umbrellas for her birthday, so she and Brian tried them out.
Screw this guy and his photos that make mine look like total crap.
I haven’t seen my old riding friend Keith McElhinney since he moved to Pennsylvania, but he’s clearly been doing a lot of riding at Woodward. At the Dew Tour’s 2006 stop in Denver, Keith pulled the world’s first ever front flip flair (which he has named the lawn dart) — check out the video. Update: …
I keep getting asked for them, so here they are: more Jeremy photos!