I really enjoy my walks home. It’s about five miles, which usually takes me about two hours. I realize it’s a lot of time to take out of my day, but I still aim to do it three times a week.
The thing is, I don’t just walk, I’m listening, too. In fact, I’d forgotten how [...]
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North Olmstead
When I was very young, we lived in North Olmstead, Ohio. Presumably, right about here, on Summerland Avenue. In fact, looking at that map, the street names are all familiar. It’s funny how street names can do that.
Anyway, I have some pictures to share. These were mostly loaned to me by my mom, so that I [...]
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But Will the iPad Kill the Kindle?
Since Apple’s introduction of the iPad earlier this week, much speculation has naturally fallen on the subject of the Kindle. It seems that Amazon knew that the iPad was coming, and put some effort into moving units before the announcement. And sure enough, Steve Jobs demonstrated the iBookstore and its reader app on the iPad, [...]
On The Beatles
As shared by Jason Kottke, this is a photo of the Quarrymen in 1957, better known as the band that would eventually become The Beatles.
What’s maybe the most striking to me about this picture is that it’s seven years before they actually came to America. These three guys were playing together for probably five years [...]
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On Craftsmanship
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”
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On Trains and Ice Cream
When I was rather young, I loved trains. I was probably in elementary school or younger during this whole time, so I was still rather young. But I just loved trains. I have pictures of me as a child wearing my “conductor hat.” We lived a couple blocks from a railroad, and I used to [...]
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The Oldest of Pictures
Late last year, my mom loaned me a bunch of her old pictures to scan in. I’ll be posting them here as time goes by, they’re going onto Flickr as we speak. This is the first batch – they are all from long before I was born. I mean, there are pictures of my grandmother [...]
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