Archive for November, 2005

Steel City WiFi

Monday, November 28th, 2005

So I’m sitting at gate A15 of the Pittsburgh airport, enjoying the uncommonly free wireless internet access during my three hour layover, and I want to hug whoever’s idea it was to not rape their customers by partnering with a life- and wallet-sucking evil cell phone company to provide wifi. Damn you T-Mobile, for charging [...]

Buying a Book For Its Cover

Monday, November 21st, 2005

So we were at Barnes & Noble this weekend and among all the interesting book covers, this new edition of Voltaire’s Candide stood right out. One look and illustrator/storywriter/”graphic novelist” Chris Ware’s amazing cover treatment grabbed me (and if you’ve ever had the pleasure of sitting down with Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, [...]

An Unsettling Day

Friday, November 18th, 2005

From even before I got to work today, there was more activity than usual a little ways down the street. We watched from the window as police taped off the cute little house with a water view that had been for sale for a few months. Neighbors milled about, cars were turned away, and someone [...]