Category: General

I just did for the first time what I’m sure most occasionally bored folks have done many times before: googled themselves. Like the classics from Dave Letterman’s timeless “Top ten things that sound dirty but aren’t” list, Googling oneself sounds lecherous but really isn’t; it just means typing your own name into google.com and seeing …

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The Somerville Gates If you had any doubts about how truly silly the “artist” Christo is….

Proof of Principle Computer Controlled Coffee Roaster Well, not my hands, but this guy, who’s converted an old popcorn popper (combined with an even older DOS-based computer) to make a home coffee roaster. Maybe there’s just not a good coffee shop around…

Here’s a caricature of Katherine and me done by Jon Towle who (coincidentally) is also a cartoonist. He kindly sent this to me just for fun–we Towles are liket that, you know. Jon lives on the west coast and you can check out his site here. (Click for larger image)

As proof of my belief in the “spring is coming” predictions of local pig L’il Bit (see a few posts below), I decided to bid farewell to my beard today… but not without a bit of fun in which I removed small sections at a time in order to yeild the most ridiculous facial hair …

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