Signal surfing: the act of making your way across NYC (or any city w/grid system), plotting your course based upon the traffic signals that happen to go your way. For example, you gradually make your way in a North Eastwardly direction, but the exact turns and street-crossings are determined solely by which lights turn green…
Fun & Games
I Want: Titanium Jewelry for Women
For those of us with nickel allergies — and there are a lot of us — the jewelry options are pretty limited. I mean, I don’t mind platinum, but it just isn’t an everyday item. Still, I shouldn’t be made to suffer because of my faux-punk teenage indiscretion. (I’m convinced wearing safety pins as earrings…
Ode to an iPhone on the Occasion of its Demise
From Shauna: “…I loved it and it was very useful. I will miss my Mr Plow ringtone and how a photo of Gareth flipping the bird popped up when he called…” A sad tale of loss and love for an electronic device. Shauna, I feel for you.
Skills to collect
Making sugar from sugar cane. Rounding up hogs. Making clothes out of flour sacks. These are some of the skills that helped my father’s family through the Great Depression on their ranch in TX. One of my favorite things to do is ask him about those days, and hear about how self-reliant the family was,…