The "All 22": A View from 50,000 Feet

Every play in every NFL game is filmed by the League from multiple angles, ReedAlbergotti tells us in the Wall Street Journal . On its way t...

One Camera, One Picture and a Time Machine

Suppose I gave you a digital camera with enough memory for exactly one picture.  One and only one.  Oh, and a time machine. In fact, suppos...

Odds and Ends

We had the chance to see Benjamin Zander , conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, live and in color last week at a local PTO event.   He is e...

Fun with Holiday Cards

Our Christmas cards are finally posted in the U.S. Mail.   As I toted our little bundles of joy into the post office yesterday morning (unde...

Old Things New: Some Ideas Whose Time Has Come (Again)

The other day the WSJ ran a story on a low-tech craze sweeping Silicon Valley —entrepreneurial evenings devoted to the board game “Settler...

In Praise of Home Delivery

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we had a milkman.   Johnny the Milkman.   Never John, or Johnny, or Mr. Connor.   He was al...

Some Chilling Tales for Halloween

Big Mac Departs Iceland :   Effective this weekend, Iceland is losing all three of its McDonald’s franchises.  Victims of the nation’s fina...

The Great Imponderables

One day, sitting around the dinner table, one of your young children will ask what heaven is like. Or what happens if there is no heaven. ...