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Plug in
As Leta likes to remind me, the carbon footprint of an electric vehicle (or anything else powered by mains electricity, for that matter) depends on the underlying energy source used to produce the electricity, be it solar or nuclear or … Continue reading
Snead & Co.
I finally had a few minutes’ opportunity to pause at the old Woodies building for the beautiful ironwork that’s been recently repainted. As can be clearly read now, the manufacturer was the Snead & Co. Iron Works of Jersey City, … Continue reading
Side Man
1st Stage delivers a clean, tight rendering of Leight’s memory play on the twilight of jazz bands. Patrick Bussinck gives a street-wise, wry reading to the narrator Clifford, one that’s much more connected than previous portrayals I’ve seen. Lee Mikeska … Continue reading
Arias with a Twist
Drag performer Joey Arias dresses up her cabaret act with inventive scrim projections and other effects by Basil Twist. Alas, Twist’s vintage puppets have more engaging personality than Arias’s persona. Unfunny banter, and there’s only so much mileage you can … Continue reading
Weird public thick-book spine point
Mark Z. Danielewski looks for love on OkCupid. ᔥ The Morning News
Cardinalis cardinalis
The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginia redbird, is quite common in the same localities, though more inclined to seek the woods. It is much sought after by bird-fanciers, and by boy gunners, and consequently is very shy. This bird suggests a … Continue reading
No bathroom breaks?
That would do me in immediately. Andrew T. Baker lays down the DC Metro Challenge. He recently traveled to all 86 stations, from Shady Grove to Largo Town Center, in 7:27:49. Can you do better? ᔥ Greater Greater Washington
The 1 mm forest
My final writing assignment for my current course, a book report on The Diversity of Life, by E. O. Wilson, is complete. The hallmark of life is this: a struggle among an immense variety of organisms weighing next to nothing … Continue reading
Calling all botany geeks
I invite you to participate in the development of a Q&A site for questions about botany. The site would be part of the successful Stack Exchange network, of which Stack Overflow is the flagship. One of the features of a … Continue reading
August: Osage County: an update: 1
I do expect that this will be the only series of posts with three colons in the title. We are running big chunks of the show, generally off book and off prompt. This afternoon we did a full run, which … Continue reading
Get on the boss
Julie Sedivy summarizes recent work by William Labov: there is evidence that the spread of a vowel shift that’s working its way through the northern parts of the Rust Belt (sort of an Albany-Buffalo-Detroit-Milwaukee axis) is being curbed by more … Continue reading
En route: 1
Last night’s quick storms and rain helped these Mayapples (Podophyllum peltatum) to pop out of the leaf litter. I spotted them on my morning walk to work.
At the park: 49
On this morning’s nest box walk, we noticed a big patch of freshwater snails in the shallows off the boardwalk on the way to the observation tower, snails that we hadn’t seen even last week. I blasted the contrast in … Continue reading
Hat tip
ᔥ The New York Times: Marco Arment shares in my confusion about the difference between a “via” link and a “hat tip.” Maybe the answer to the question of the second kind of attribution is to be explicit: if someone … Continue reading
Via
Scott M. Fulton III explicates the idea behind Maria Popova’s Curator’s Code project, and gives a name to a practice that I try to avoid (with little success): LWIR. Popova proposes the Unicode ᔥ [CANADIAN SYLLABICS SH (U+1525)] as a … Continue reading
