Photos
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Views from the New Bike Route: Jamaica Pond
One of the best perks of living in JP is the ride from here to work each morning. The 20-25 minute journey takes me down the backroads of Brookline and Chestnut Hill on what feel like country roads. Along the way I pass three bodies of water, the first of which is Jamaica Pond, the…
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Carmina Burana at the Sanders Theater
Friday night we took in a free performance of Carmina Burana Harvard's Sanders theater. Our friend Arnie was in the chorus, so it was a good chance to hear him sing and experience this great piece live for the first time. The performance was outstanding, and I can think of few better places to hear…
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Peter B. Lewis Building, Cleveland
I’ve spent most of my day today in the Peter B. Lewis Building, a Frank Gehry building which houses part of the Wheatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH). I’m here for the New Media Consortium Conference, and I’ve taking advantage of the wireless connection to finish my presentation. But over…
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Easter Images
A little late in coming, but here some Easter 2006 images in the recently revamped Whereproject photo gallery. These photos were taken in and around St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge, MA using my new Sony Cybershot W50.
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If the Jetsons designed a church…
…this is what it would look like. Or at least that’s what came to mind as I observed this "steeple" on my ride to Cafenation Wednesday.
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Harold Connolly Scupture
Earlier this week as I was biking to Brighton Center, I noticed a statue in front of the Taft Middle School that I had never paid attention to before. It depicts Harold Connolly, an 1956 Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw who grew up in the area and attended Taft, Brighton High, and Boston…
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Thundersnow
This afternoon I’ve been working at home during our first snowstorm of the season. About half hour ago I was startled by a flash of light–muted but very distinct–that seemed to come from outside. Then, a second or two later, there was thunder. Cunning naturalist that I am, I turned to google to figure out…
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Portait of the Artist
Some evenings when I walk up the steps to our house, I can see Dave sitting at his easel painting, his figure framed by the window and lit by his nearby lamp. He’s a portait painter, and the faces he creates fill our dinning room with color and life. A couple months ago, I purchased…
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Longfellow Epitaph
17 There is no Death! What seems so is transition; 18 This life of mortal breath 19 Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 20 Whose portal we call Death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Resignation" (1886-1991)On a gravestone in Mt. Auburn Cemetery
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Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford
Since Wednesday I’ve been in Palo Alto at the Computers and Writing 2005 conference, and tomorrow I’ll be heading back to Boston. The conference has been good–I feel like I got what I came for–but now I’m ready to get back to Boston and finish this rather taxing trip. On Friday night we had a…