Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Travel on September 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Only a few days left before I head for Pittsburgh and the 2007 International City/County Management Association Conference. The conference program, and location, varies from year to year. In addition to the educational programs, which are often very good, there are opportunities - both formal and informal - to learn a bit about the host city (and county) [...]
Posted in Drink, Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, News, Travel on September 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In my usual scan of the New York Times Dining & Wine section today I saw the headline “In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking” and I thought, “Cool - um, I mean, really? A golden age of dining and drinking right in nearby Portland, Maine?” But, no. Alas, the story is about Portland, Oregon. [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Government, Health, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my mail at work the other day I received a copy of “For I Was Hungry,” an editorial series run this summer by the central Maine newspapers the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. The series is about hunger in Maine, manifested in what has come to be called “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is, depending [...]
Posted in News, News and Politics on September 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A young woman wearing a computer circuit board, wiring and what turned out to be Play-Doh, over the black hooded sweatshirt she was also wearing, was arrested this morning at Boston’s Logan Airport.
I don’t know if this was meant to be a protest of some sort, a prank, somebody’s twisted attempt at humor, or what. [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Photography on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From “The Gallery of Regrettable Food” it’s food styling circa 1959 with, clockwise from the top left, “Holiday Salad” (anything pink with fruit in it was a sure show-stopper, apparently, especially with what look like - I think - green candied cherries on top), “Chicken Curry Salad” (is that what that is?), and the ever-popular [...]
Posted in News, News and Politics on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Making my regular check of news on The New York Times web site today I was greated by some good news. NYT’s TimesSelect premium online news service has been discontinued as of today:
Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered significantly. Readers increasingly find news through search, as well as through social networks, [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Entertainment, Life on September 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yes, it’s another birthday, this time for Batman. Well, okay, not so much Batman as Adam West, who turns 79 today. Though he has never really been able to escape his association with this particular role, in later life he seems to have made peace with it and has turned the 1960s Batman into a cult [...]
Posted in Health and Wellness, News and Politics on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Went to the doctor last week - time for my annual physical. I’m one of the lucky ones, not just because I have a good doctor, and not because my blood pressure is good, or my cholesterol (albeit chemically-assisted) is 150, but because I have a good employer-provided health plan.
Employer-provided health insurance seems to be [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Hobbies, Music on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In a previous post, I remarked about how Rush vocalist Geddy Lee’s voice had not held up particularly well over the last twenty years or so. Since happening across the R30 DVD about this time (or a little later) last year I have been getting reacquainted with my favorite Canadian band (my second favorite being, of [...]
Posted in Food and Drink on September 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Often on a Friday night we’re looking for something tasty that’s not too much work. Almost as often this means some variation on the cheese and crackers (or bread) theme, with assorted crudités and/or fruit. This is good enough, but also gets to be routine after a while. With the fondness among several members of [...]
