by David | Apr 29, 2009 | photo, technology
If you’ve been following my microdrivel lately, you know that I’ve been actively fundraising for the Photographic Resource Center at BU. On Monday, we (by which I mean all my donors and I) hit the $2,000 goal. This is a big step, achieved ahead of...
by David | Apr 28, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, reading & writing, urbanism, working
It’s not every day you go to a social media event in a cargo container sponsored by a shoe company and hear somebody invoke Thoreau when talking about Twitter. Today was just such a day. But first, I’ll back up to last night, when J (have I mentioned...
by David | Apr 28, 2009 | eating, urbanism
This weekend I blunched with fashion blogger A at the eccentrically capitalized LiNEaGe restaurant in Coolidge Corner. We were both a little shell-shocked at the sudden heat and immediately ordered up pomegranate Bellinis. While discussing the next Crisis in Denim...
by David | Apr 27, 2009 | culture, design, economics
As I often do as laundry day approaches, I dropped into the Gap to buy some black t-shirts the other day. While there, I also picked up some socks and underwear. The smallest purchase, the underwear, came with a disturbing array of packaging waste: a cardboard band, a...
by David | Apr 26, 2009 | eating, reading & writing, urbanism
Last week, I dined with professor M at Mu Lan, an unassuming looking Taiwanese restaurant not far from Kendall square in Cambridge. We ordered #54, sauteed shrimp with asparagus and #133, soft bean curd with green mustard and some brown rice. The shrimp and...
