My mother has had what we in the scientific community would classify as “poor vision” for a while now. It was especially hard for her to see well at night, and she couldn’t read the cable guide (even on a 27″ TV). When walking somewhere after sundown she needed somebody to help with things like [...]

From a post on superdelegates:
Since we joined with our partners to begin the Superdelegate Transparency Project, we’ve seen a number of proposals on how superdelegates can follow the “will of the people.” DemConWatch characterizes one group of supers who will vote for the “pledged delegate leader” the Pelosi Club, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Representatives [...]

I had a great Saturday in D.C. this weekend. An old friend from Silver City is a fellow at the National Academies of Science, and she’s spending four months here in the city. With our busy schedules, of course, it’s been hard getting together, but Saturday the stars aligned.
Being a fellow, she was able to [...]

Here’s the cats hanging out on the new chair up at Meredith’s place. The photo is a week old (as most of my cat blogging pictures are) but I was so in love with this shot I wanted to post it for you.
The new furniture was definitely a big hit (see below) with the [...]

So, since I last blogged I went to Brooklyn, saw The Little Mermaid, went to the Natural History Museum, walked across Central Park (again), went to the Met, saw the Guggenheim (wow, oh wow, was this an incredible exhibit), had a slice, went to the UN building, went to the top (well, almost) of [...]

So, yesterday I walked around Manhattan. Like, all of it. You can see the route I took below:

There’s more photos at the Flickr page, but here are a few of my favorites:

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So, I’m heading to New York this morning, to spend four nights in the Greatest City in the World™. I hope you’re all duly impressed. I’ll be doing my best to blog, and you can bet I’ll be snapping photos during the trip, so please stay tuned during the coming week.
Ta ta for now!

My favorite political cartoonist, Clay Bennett, has resumed work. He recently left the Christian Science Monitor (where his cartoons garnered a Pulitzer Prize) for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. I’ve long loved his artistic talent, but more than that I love the way he so easily pulls the thrust of a situation into the open. [...]

No less than four women called me “Mr. Fancy Pants” when I relayed I had been interviewed by the New York Times yesterday. I imagine they must teach this term during girl’s physical education classes in grade school,1  since I don’t remember it on the general curriculum and its use seems confined to the female [...]

It’s not a huge deal or anything, and I’m not a flashy part of the story, but still, kinda cool.

Last night marked the 30th anniversary of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society’s “Evening of Irish Music and Poetry” in Columbia, MD. We learned about it during Meredith’s recent reading at the launch for the third issue of the Little Patuxent Review (which featured one of her poems).
While Michael Collins, the Irish ambassador to [...]

Well, it was an amazing year for me. In 2007 I had my first Digg experience, continued to work on my photography, finished my second year at the Silver City Daily Press (before moving to Washington D.C.), and fell in love. Looking back, and reflecting on the current state of being, I’m pretty much living [...]