filed in Randomness on Aug.26, 2008
Every once in a while I have to clear out the scraps of half-digested almost-posts that I have collected. Usually I read something interesting, e-mail it to myself, start a post, and then lose interest. So here are a few that qualify as too good to lose yet not worthy of a full post:
1. I [...]
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filed in Books on Aug.24, 2008
Rarely do I read a book that completely changes the way I view the world. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus provided that uncommon feeling. The premise of the book seems straightforward: The Americas before Columbus were intensely cultivated and massively populated, and the sparse, scattered tribes encountered by later explorers were the [...]
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filed in Sports on Aug.16, 2008
The funny thing about being a world soccer fan is that you don’t have a natural team to support. Yeah, it’s possible to support a United States MLS team, but (1) they’re not the quality of other teams, (2) they don’t play in cool things like the Champions League, and (3) I’d have to root [...]
filed in Travel on Aug.12, 2008
In my continuing fascination with public transportation, I couldn’t wait to try out the Megebus with Sam last weekend. (Yes, public transportation attachment is perhaps a distinctly American interest, since in any other country public transportation is a way of life and not a novelty. This explains the bored looks from 9-to-5ers that contrast with [...]