Monthly Archives: May 2012
The capricious gods of work and weather
Sometimes I think the ancient Greeks had it pretty good: If something wasn’t going the way you wanted, all you had to do was identify the offended god, sacrifice something (100 bulls, say, or your fourteen-year-old daughter who thought she was about to be married to Achilles) to appease that god, and then things would go right again. […]
Building Dancers
I hadn’t expected to walk out of work today and see people dancing on the facade of the clock tower across the street. And yet there they were. Totally bizarre and cool. I love public performance art. (You’ll see the dancers better if you maximize the video.)
Baltimore: Kinetic Sculpture Race
Baltimore is an odd city with a lovely inner harbor. Nautical tranquility is nice, but that’s not why I went to Baltimore on Saturday. The goal of the visit was to see the craziness that is the annual Kinetic Sculpture Race. Think of this race as what you might get if the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had a […]
Booked!
And the destination for this year’s grand adventure will be . . . [drumroll] . . . Spain and Morocco! It’s quite a shift from the original plan of doing Russia (the goal had been to start in Berlin and end up in St. Petersburg), but since Amanda is going to be in Spain anyway this summer, this switch […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 