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The American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week every year in late September. This year Banned Books Week is officially taking place from September 26th through October 3rd, which, by my count, is eight days. And why not add an extra day to that week? Banning books is an important subject. Personally I’m all for [...]
There were a few times in high school that I was called a nerd, a label that never quite fit me. I was a geek. And there is a difference, although such labels are sometimes meaningless. In spite of what movies try to tell us high school, like the rest of life, is not really [...]
In college I had a Smith Corona word processor. I’m showing my age here, but this was before laptops, so the word processor–with its eight-line, gray and blue LCD screen, and disks that could hold up to 32 KB–was a pretty fancy piece of technology. And I named it Edgar, after Edgar Allan Poe. A [...]
We all know Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, but he also said,
A co-worker of mine just held up a copy of the September 14th, 2009 Times (London) with the big scary headline 20,000 children put at risk by dithering at E. coli farm. While I don’t want to laugh at at-risk children, I had to laugh at the use of the word dithering. It makes it [...]
The other day I was in my office and my boss called and said, “I’ve got a huge project for you. I’m in the coffee shop right now. What can I get you?” And I mused, something mocha. Even though I have no clue what mocha is. I can’t remember the first time I heard [...]
To say I grew up listening to Peter, Paul, And Mary would be an understatement. My mother played their albums on a daily basis. When I got my first tape recorder I had a lot of fun recording my best friend belching, but what I really listened to–in bed before going to sleep almost every [...]
Here in the United States we call them cookies. Across the pond, in Britain, they’re called biscuits, and biscuit comes from the French word biscuit. Spelled the same, but it sounds differently, which the Oxford English Dictionary calls “a senseless adoption of the mod.Fr. spelling, without the Fr. pronunciation.” Maybe that explains why millions of [...]
“I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”-Carl Sagan
Finding the Bathysphere in an outdoor scrap yard under the Cyclone in Coney Island was like coming across a Mercury space capsule among rusting tools and nicked furniture at a flea market. |
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