Monthly Archives: October 2004
Wedding Bells in the Blogosphere
The Blogosphere is abuzz with the news that The Redhead and The Acordian Guy have decided to get hitched! This is truly a match made in Blogging Heaven, and we wish them all the best in the world. Ah, young … Continue reading
Pharma Karma
The thing we don’t get about cheaper drugs from Canada is how come they’re so much cheaper? If Canadian pharmacies are selling US manufactured drugs for less than half of what they cost in the US, it means that they … Continue reading
House That Ruth Lived In Demolished
In keeping with our committment to report on stories close to home, and with some pride that our new hometown is so enmeshed in the history of "The Curse", the following story is worth a read. Who knew that the … Continue reading
We Come in Peace
One enduring benefit of living in the intellectual Hub of the Universe is the availability of free lectures by some of the smartest experts in some of the most obscure and useless areas of knowledge known to man. This week, for … Continue reading
We Can’t Go Through This Again
Some superior sportswriting this morning in the Globe, about the upcoming baseball jihad between Boston and New York. Please, can this be happening again? We haven’t gotten over last year yet…First, by Dan Shaughnessey: And so one year after they jousted … Continue reading
The Smoking Louse
Scientists unraveling the genetic history of head lice have found startling evidence that early humans mingled with a clan of hairy, distant cousins as recently as 25,000 years ago in Asia — a previously undocumented meeting that appears to have … Continue reading
The Apple of Our Eye
Today, Phil’s Apple Farm, Harvard, MA
See No Evil
Loved this picture first seen in this morning’s Boston Globe. Looks even better in color. Relatives of 20-year-old Palestinian Sager Sager, cover his sister’s face to avoid seeing his body during his funeral at the family’s home in the Khan … Continue reading
Do the Wild Thing
At this juncture, a pregnant pause on the baseball calendar while the eternal enemies the Red Sox and the Yankees are girding their loins for the latest installment of baseballs bitterest battle, it is worth taking a moment to celebrate … Continue reading
The Three Second Rule
*Note: Readers who are constitutionally opposed to meandering posts which don’t seem to make a point or lead anywhere are excused from reading the following. Recently at a stylish soiree we overheard an impeccably dressed Dean holding forth on something … Continue reading
Give Us Your Tired, Your Rich, Your Tourist Dollars
Once again the tour buses full of foreign leaf-peepers are backed up for miles at the New Hampshire toll booths on Rte. I-95. Once more the full fall festivities in Harvard Square are being captured on hundreds of digital cameras … Continue reading
Tiger Tale
A Royal Bengal tiger cools down by taking a bath in a pond at Dhaka’s National zoo. It has nothing to do with our life, politics, debt, blogging or teaching. We just liked the photo. Photo by AFP