Blowing & Drifting

By popular request – or at least the request of the person being imitated – here is a photo of Genevieve with “Wob ha-oh,” by which she means hair that looks like Northfielder Rob Hardy’s curly red hair. (I love my girl, but Rob’s hair is much better. I haven’t looked closely enough to compare [...]

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Following a chain of links, I came across the website of Bliz Eyewear, which the almighty internet says is “the leading mid-price eyewear company in Scandinavia.” Nothing remarkable, really, except that all of the company’s shades are named after cities in Michigan, including the two towns where I (mostly) grew up. Here are the shades [...]

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An oldie but a goodie: Young Democrats from Christopher Tassava on Vimeo. This was shot in September, on the Sunday of the Defeat of Jesse James Days, but both of these kids look so young to me!

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Carleton’s Sayles-Hill campus center versus the average airport concourse Similarities Lots of people idling away a few minutes or hours between time-fixed commitments. Many laptops open and sucking down wi-fi bandwidth. Almost everyone eating or drinking something. Long lines at the coffee bar. At least some public sleeping, no matter when you’re there. TVs blaring. [...]

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As I head out for an hour’s skiing in the Arb, I’ll enjoy the false certainty of Weather Underground’s forecast for Monday:

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The snow that was predicted to fall today finally arrived around noon, and kept up right through dusk. Beautiful, and perhaps a sign that skiable snow is here to stay. The trees out front of the Carleton library, late this afternoon.

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I love pretty much everything the science-fiction novelist William Gibson has written, and there’s no exception for this (seventeen-year-old!) take on “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” which spoofs not only that hoary work but also Gibson’s own writing style. Brilliant. Cyber Claus In the night of 12/24/07, though sensors woven through the very fabric of [...]

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Julia has loved the folk-rocker Dan Zanes for a long, long time. His albums are full of great, complicated songs that happen to be as delightful for kids as for parents. I mean, the man sings (or helps sing) Great Depression ballads so well that Julia begs to hear them again and again, and knows [...]

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Making a snowman – or two, identically named “Frosty Most,” after the girls’ two favorite holiday songs, “Frosty the Snowman” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” – is a good way to raise the average of an otherwise ho-hum day.

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My skis and poles are out on the patio, enjoying the snowfall right now. I’ll be out with ‘em tomorrow morning.

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From bottom to top and outside to inside, here’s what I wore this morning for the bike ride to work: cycling shoes running socks under dress socks lined waterproof windpants khakis long underwear over regular underwear windbreaker midweight fleece jacket dress shirt undershirt bike helmet sunglasses thermal hat heavy ski gloves By my count, that’s [...]

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