June 2011
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February 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
Empathy 101 →
November 2010
2 posts
One meal follows the other
October 2010
4 posts
The Tipsy Diaries: Finding the Frisco Cocktail →
September 2010
1 post
Urban wild
As I sit on the couch in my living room, I hear the neighbors across the street exclaim to each other, “Is that a wolf‽ It looks like a wolf. Maybe it’s a dog and the owner is around the corner? No, look, it’s running away from us… I think that was a wolf!”
My windows don’t allow a view far enough down the street to see for myself, and by the time I make...
August 2010
3 posts
Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble →
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Fine Gin & Tonics
I had an epiphany the other week: why mix your damn fine (and expensive) gin with cheap tonic?
Oranges
Occasionally I’ll find myself in a quiet, dimly-lit kitchen in the still hours of the morning hunched over the stainless steel sink slurping on ripe orange wedges as the juicy fruit satisfyingly pulls away from the peel.
I expect that might be the case again tonight with the oranges still left over after squeezing three dozen for fresh juice.
The priced to sell, very ripe Valencia...
July 2010
2 posts
Recipe of the Day: Cornbread →
June 2010
4 posts
A Pacemaker Wrecks a Family's Life →
A heartwrenching story about medical overtreatment.
3 tags
Boots well worn
When I moved just a few weeks ago, I decided to toss the pair of Columbia hiking boots above. I kept them around for a bit past their lifetime, even though I replaced them at the beginning of the year with a pair of above the ankle Keens that still have cushioning and don’t have holes in them.
The low-tops above served my feet very well over the past four years, hiking in the rolling...
April 2010
5 posts
Average daytime temperature for my birthday week...
March 2010
7 posts
Conquering 46-Part Goal, Peak by Icy Peak →
“Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to...”
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Read the rest of the NYTimes blurb.
Essay: How Not to Depict a War →
Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical →
February 2010
3 posts
Elliðaey, Iceland
I posted a photo of a house yesterday. A little sleuthing this morning turned up it’s location as the island Elliðaey in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago just off the southern coast of Iceland. What looks like an Icelandic tourism site has more information and photos (translated). Here it is as seen on Google Maps:
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A Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors →
January 2010
2 posts
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their... →
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned →
Ugh. This is disgusting.
December 2009
5 posts
Radio
A recent discovery: Field Notes on WFCR, the local NPR affiliate in Western Mass. I love listening to radio programs and spoken word storytelling a la The Moth and The Memory Palace. Sometimes I think producing radio pieces like these field notes is something I’d like to do. Especially if I could turn them into multimedia pieces for the web using photos and video shot while recording...
Images of Tehran Before the Turmoil →
I hope the documentary makes it out with English subtitles — I’m really curious and want to watch it.
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A Taste of Music in the Pioneer Valley's Puerto...
Since September I’ve been working pretty intensively on an ethnomusicology project on Puerto Rican music in the Pioneer Valley. Every week was marked by new recordings and interviews and usually some great Caribbean food. All of this work culminated in a 20-minute documentary film, photos, snippets of extra video and audio field recordings, and numerous bits of writing, all of which is...
November 2009
5 posts
Dan Saltzstein →
My Near Death Panel Experience →
Washington
Noah L. →
From Prague
October 2009
7 posts
Summer fieldwork in Montana
Finally processed and uploaded these to Flickr. All taken with my Mom’s point and shoot Canon during my month of doing geological fieldwork in Montana in July and August.
Summer day up on Tuttle Hill.
Waiting to board
Fall color in Christchurch.