My bull riding experiment has provided no small amount ofamusement for friends and colleagues (as evidenced by outbursts of hilarityduring which my interlocutors, after having heard the story, crumble withlaughter at the thought of me flying through the air, upside down, to be dashedat high speed against the padded walls of the bull pit).I can [...]
Tonight at Gilley’s I couldn’t resist riding the mechanical bull. The guy running the controls had an evil glint in his eye right from the start — probably thought, "who is this geek with the yankee accent and the cowboy boots? I’ll show him cowboy boots…" The bull tossed me twice. The second time I [...]
Last evening, after some great seminars and many vendor chats and demos, demos, demos (some of which may well bear fruit!) I went to the Edgie Awards where the NAA
Day one of the NAA Future Leaders, the Leadership Academy presented by Michael Kane of the Lansing State Journal and Steve Wilders of Jackson Wilders Group was awesome.
Set up by the NAA’s Rob Runett, the Connections 2005 Blog is going to follow the Connections (New Media) sessions at the conference… which begins officially at 8 a.m. this morning.
No matter how often I have traveled, and how well I ought to know howtime and energy consuming travel is, I somehow convince myself rightbefore every major trip I take that the trip is only as long as theflight. In this case the flight was a two stage journey
Continue reading about Travel: Fast In My Mind, Longer In The Real World
Always find a cool link when I drop by Mixolydian Mode… This time it’s an interviewwith writer Sandra Miesel about the place where science fiction, fantasy andCatholicism intersect, or maybe how they manage to mesh, orperhaps…
Listening to the new TomWolfe book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, during my workouts. (I remain adevoted fan of Audible.com — man, if it were not for this digital audio booksubscription service and workouts and long commutes, I would have little timefor new fiction, at least not without seriously sacrificing sleep!) Terrific writing, butalready I can [...]
A new column on Poynter.org is: "Exploring the future of on-screen type, including 8 things you can do to improve readability and a preview of 6 new fonts." The new fonts look cool, and are a welcome addition to the three current, designed-for-screen-reading fonts available: Verdana, Georgia and Trebuchet.
It took two and half years of parenthood for Kristen to finally make it to a "playgroup." She describes the experience with her usual, warm charm (what, am I not supposed to be biased?) over at Milkweed Hill.
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