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Life in the Woods

I read Walden on a tiny electronic screen, primarily socked away in the back of trains, planes and automobiles, and missed out on all the classic typesetting and ink prints that might accompany a quality hardback. But the content was there, and I think Thoreau would have understood. The book

New Views

I started using Picasa as a gallery.  The features are similar to Gallery2, but the process of tweaking and uploading albums is an order of magnitude faster.  You can go directly to the new gallery with the New Photos tab above.  Or click the small text on the image boxes

Reading E

I finally succumbed to the necessity of a crackberry and found myself spending a lot of time in airplanes and subway cars. After reading the same Sky magazine for the fourth time, some new reading material was in order. I tried ebooks a few years back, uploading raw text files

Concrete Dwellers

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Garden State

For the past month I’ve been working in New Jersey. My morning commute is an hour long and identical to the Soprano’s intro. Under the Hudson and straight through the Meadowlands and Newark, this vast stretch of brown industry, acres of cranes and stacked containers and overpasses. So

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