by David | Jan 31, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo
I am sitting in a room probably very different from the one you are in now. I am sitting on a metal glider swing in the front parlor of a Somerville home facing two intensely bright lamps and listening to recorded sounds of nature. It’s artist Lyn...
by David | Jan 22, 2013 | design, technology, travel
en MacBook cover, that is. Last month, I treated myself and my new MacBook to a spiffy cedar plank of a cover from Karvt. This month, I did some flying, and that included everybody’s favorite drill, take out your computer and put it in a bin all by itself. I...
by David | Jan 21, 2013 | economics, technology, working
So, it has come to this. I am on the verge of buying a Hello Kitty flash drive and sending it to the cloud, aka Salesforce.com. Why would I so such a thing, you ask? I’ve discovered that Salesforce.com allots you 1,000 MB (that’s one gigabyte in...
by David | Jan 10, 2013 | economics, travel
With the winter holidays ahead, I decided to replace my dangerously dull moustache scissors with a fancy new pair. Stainless steel, comfort grip, finely serrated blades. My upper lip blinked and squinted in the sunlight. I recall once watching a grown man at a TSA...