A time for everything

A full accounting As many of you know, I’ve been biking a lot this summer.  Since my office moved in March and turned my daily bike commute from 8 miles into 35, I have logged over 3,000 miles.  At the beginning my breakfast was a piece of toast and coffee, my clothes were shorts and…

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The more things change

Never assume the French make sense In World War II, prior to the Normandy invasion, the Allies sent planes with cameras over France to take photos of the countryside.  This was important and dangerous intelligence-gathering which provided invaluable information to the Generals planning the attack, but it had a few drawbacks. The Normandy countryside is…

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The Better to See You With

The eyes having it I spend five days a week looking at a large computer screen, and when I’m not looking at that large computer screen I’m looking at a smaller laptop screen, and when I’m not looking at that I’m looking at an iPhone screen.  Or reading, which is thankfully still a low-tech book…

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Working it out

We keep it in the basement We have an unfinished basement in our house that is decidedly awesome because, A: it is utterly dry, all the time, B: it is easily the largest single space in our home, C: it has no heat, finished flooring walls or ceiling, so the city’s property taxes ignore it.…

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