Tim Wakefield, Movie Star: An Interview with the Directors of Knuckleball! (Surviving Grady) In Knuckleball!, directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg follow Wake through his last season in the game, juxtaposing it with Mets up-and-comer RA Dickey, who will be MLB’s sole knuckleballer this season. Of course I’ll have to see it. I’m especially intrigued by …
In a world of driverless cars, there’s be no reason to stop at intersections. Cars would just flow through constantly without crashing: What Intersections Would Look Like in a World of Driverless Cars (The Atlantic) “There would be an intersection manager,” Stone says, “an autonomous agent directing traffic at a much finer-grain scale than just a …
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This past weekend was the Worcester Cup Bonspiel, a curling tournament at The Country Club in Brookline, MA. The South Shore Curling Club sent three teams (I was on South Shore II) and all three made it to the finals on Sunday, with our team playing for the Worcester Cup! We were pretty proud that our …
Two months into it, and I’m still going. I figured I might lose steam in my second month of taking a photo every day, so to force myself to keep it up I followed fatmumslim’s photo a day: a topic is provided for each day, and that’s what you have to shoot. But for March I think …
Way back in the 1980s, my brother and a couple friends started a BMX `zine. It focused on the New England riding scene at the time, and evolved and grew over the years. I made a lot of friends and learned a lot about design and writing, but after 18 issues of Radazine and 9 …
I’ve been wanting to do a project 365 (taking a photo every day) for the past few years, but I just couldn’t follow though. I just never had my camera with me at all times, and I wouldn’t even get through January. There was also the issue of trying to take a great photo every …
Being old and out of touch with the BMX world, I’ve never heard of Mark Webb. But after watching this video, I’m convinced he’s gotta be the best rider around. Any one of these tricks could be amazing “video-enders”; I’m not totally convinced that all of these tricks are possible (even though I’ve watching it …
It’s now year seven of my annual soundtrack project. I ended up with a lot more new music (actually released in 2011) than in past years. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify The Mills Brothers: “I Heard” Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm: “Getting Nasty” People Under The Stairs: “Gamin’ on Ya (Dub)” Beastie …
Queen: Queen II
Well, how about that… The fourth day’s gift is often stated as four “calling” birds but originally was four “colly” birds, this being another word for a blackbird. The fifth day’s gift of gold rings refers not to jewelry but to ring-necked birds such as the ring-necked pheasant or to “five goldspinks” — a goldspink …