Slept a little fitfully last night. Woke this morning out of a dream in which (mostly) benevolent and unbelievably powerful aliens arrive on Earth and do little things like reroute rivers, create playgrounds where there were none before, and give everyone on the planet an iPhone. Most of their astounding feats happen [...]
Wikipedia entry on Judge Learned Hand
The J-school requires all American students to take a class on First Amendment law. (Foreign students take a class called “The U.S. as a Foreign Country.”)
In the First Amendment law class, we’re reading a lot of court cases, one of which had a really stirring quote from someone I’d [...]
… no, really, we are. And while I’m thrilled to not have to reach for the box of matches when I want to cook something, I do miss the insanely high BTUs that come from propane. Boiling water for morning tea over the camp stove took less than 3 minutes. Boiling the [...]
VOA Pronunciation Guide
The Voice of America provides a searchable pronunciation guide to the names of news-making people around the world.
Our tax dollars at work, but in this case, they’re working on something that’s totally awesome!
We’ve been settling in more, albeit slowly.
The hospital Kate works at has had its name change frequently over the last 10 years as various schools and corporations have merged and sponsored it. The ambulances say “New York / Presbyterian,” people commonly refer to “Columbia / Presbyterian,” signs around 168th St say “Columbia [...]