My vacation in Florida is going swimmingly, in every sense of the word. So far, I’ve been swimming every single day (either in a pool or in the ocean), I’ve eaten shrimp almost every single day, I’ve had Key lime pie everywhere from Key…
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On the eve of a very different vacation, I’ve finally posted the last bit of my Bologna travelogue. It was a fun thing to write; I liked reliving my trip to culinary heaven.…
Wrapping up a weekend in Bologna the Red.…
I can’t for the life of me remember where I originally saw the link to the online Tristan Times, but ever since finding it, I’ve been involved in a little Tristan da Cunha obsession.…
A fancy new pen shop has opened up in the center of Brighton. I have previously mentioned in passing that I’m a stationery fetishist, so when I spotted the shop yesterday, I was inside in a nanosecond, my face pressed up against the cases of very fi…
I want to apologize for my whiny remarks about not being able to go on vacation in the Keys because of the hurricane. Hurricane Charley wound up being the worst hurricane since the devastating Andrew in 1992, and according to the New York Times (login:wrr…
Well that’s not good. (That bit at the tip of Florida that’s all highlighted in red? The bit that’s right in Charley’s path? That’s the Florida Keys.)…
Sorry about the lack of interesting updates, folks. I’ve been diligently trying to get my term paper done, so most of my waking hours have been devoted to thoughts of computer-assisted language learning (fascinating, I know). One funny thing is that…
I first blogged about Amazon’s "Search Inside the Book" feature last October when it was introduced. Almost a year on, as I sit in front of my computer at midnight, trying to write a term paper and finding myself in need of looking up this…