I’m the kind of person who forces myself to finish a book even if it’s boring, so I now find myself stuck in the middle of two snorefests. I’m reading Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli on my iPaq, and I’m listening to The Name of the Rose by Umbert Eco on my iPod. Neither has been [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The calendar says it’s spring. Opening Day for Major League Baseball is tomorrow, stores currently have patio furniture, gas grills, and gardening items prominently displayed, and college students are now returning from Cancun, Daytona Beach, and other top spring break destinations. Yet it certainly doesn’t feel like spring. The weather’s terrible, there’s snow in the [...]
Are you participating in a bracket pool at your office? If so, how are you doing in it? I have to admit that this is one of the things I miss most about working with other people: gambling pools for major sporting events! Anyway, in case you’re interested, the Elite Eight for this year’s NCAA [...]
We just bought a tiny ATV for our son to practice riding on. He’s too short to touch the ground on our CRF50, and he probably wouldn’t be able to balance anyway, so we decided to go with an ATV for him instead. That way, he can start to learn throttle control and braking, and [...]
I’m not really a big fan of the NCAA tourney, but I do get caught up in March Madness a bit. This year, the biggest news of the tournament (besides Davidson advancing to the Sweet Sixteen) is the fact that Stanford sophomore Robin Lopez is dating golf sensation Michelle Wie. I’d never heard of this [...]
There’s no sugarcoating it now: the economy is definitely in the toilet. Prices are rising on almost everything out there, income levels are flattening out (at least in my neck of the woods), and foreclosures continue to skyrocket in major cities across the country. At a time like this, what’s a good investment to make? [...]
Here’s this week’s Booking Through Thursday question: While acknowledging that we can’t judge books by their covers, how much does the design of a book affect your reading enjoyment? Hardcover vs. softcover? Trade paperback vs. mass market paperback? Font? Illustrations? Etc.? I’m used to reading electronic texts these days, which I love because of the [...]