When Dropbox started adding pro-torture, anti-privacy war criminals to their Board of Directors, I started looking for an alternative online storage and syncing solution. (I found it, by the way. It’s Bitcasa, which offers a full...
According to the folks over at Skyscanner, travel in 2024 will include: holographic virtual assistants who notice you’re working too much, plan perfect trips for you, and subtly motivate you to take them by injecting images from those...
We said goodbye to Chelsea today, our most faithful friend these last twelve years. Just six months ago, the vet diagnosed Chelsea with aggressive liver cancer. Since then, the tumors have spread to her lungs and lymph nodes, making it...
Lilly, our very sweet, very old kitty, passed away today. She was over twenty years old. Like her brother, Tiger, who died in 2008, Lilly came to us when we lived in the McCoy Avenue house in Jackson, Mississippi. Tiger had the bolder name, but it...
On Saturday night, we brave near-hurricane force winds, walking two blocks to the BurgerFi. The space is wearhousey, with high ceilings, lots of sharp and pointy decor, dangerous-looking chandeliers made of giant fishhooks and free-swinging bare...
Noah is remarkably ill-conceived: an anti-technology, anti-human, pro-environmental, pro-vegan fantasy epic. Too unfaithful to the Biblical record to please the religious and too talky to please the action-movie crowd, it lurches from scene to scene...
Pseudoscientific analysis. When reporters start probing for hidden messages in Obama’s signature, listening for stress in a pilot’s last communication, or revealing personality through posture, they’ve stopped reporting news and...
We’re in Murphy’s, the breakfasty-brunchy joint “where Virginia Highlands meets.” (You know — it’s the place Thrillist.com claims is the best restaurant in the Highlands neighborhood.) We’ve been here...
We’re in Lima, with just a few hours to go before we head back to the airport. Rodrigo, our guide from Peruvian Local Friends, suggests we spend the sunset and early evening hours at the Park of the Reserve, in the shadow of Lima’s...
