… that I was buying into the lifestyle of a busy executive on the go, the kind of executive who might, at a moment’s notice, jet off to Baltimore – first class!
Around our house if we say, “Shall we freeze the rest of that?” what we usually mean is, “Huh. That wasn’t very good, but there’s nothing so notably bad about it that we can just throw it away, so let’s put it in the freezer, and barring a global economic collapse or food shortage, throw [...]
I like Yelp, the site that crowdsources people’s opinions and gives ratings on restaurants, stores and service businesses. I also have the Yelp application on my iPhone. I don’t use either one of them much at home, because I pretty much know which restaurants I like and where they are. But I’m in Seattle this [...]
I love a good meme. This one was started by Christopher S. Penn, picked up by Olivier Blanchard and then by my friend DJ Waldow. Here’s how Chris defined it: We strive desperately to look for the next big thing, the next big secret, the magic wand that will make everything better. What we tend [...]
I’m working at home today so that the plumber from Bud Matthews Service in Chapel Hill can install our new faucet. We pretty much call them for anything. If they did car repair and baby sitting, we could just write them one big check every month. Scott, who is installing the faucet, just said, “Sorry [...]
