Sent by Eleni: In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from the University of Toronto. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently […]
Read moreMonth: September 2009
Bowling, Revisited
Linhong Zhou just e-mailed me a photo she took on our bowling night. I love it so much I want you to see it, even though it’s old news. Frying one’s computer is not only expensive but taxing on time and spirit. Critical files have gone missing: passwords, financial records, four years’ worth of e-mails… and my entire address/phone book. They’re not on the hard drive I yanked from the bowels of my old computer. […]
Read moreHappy 5770!
—”Yesterday I spilled half a glass of lemonade into my computer,” I told Sehoon, the SIT tech person, this morning. “Why isn’t it working any more?” He gave me the look that technical people with five monitors on their desk give the proletariat. —“What did you do when that happened?” —“I turned it upside-down and shook some of the lemonade out.” —“Did you turn off the power?” —“The power? No. It turned itself off. Well, […]
Read moreThe Joy of Soapstone
Last night I read about a hike scheduled for today to a now defunct soapstone quarry on Bear Mountain. I love soapstone. Dad always had it around and made cool things with it: lamps mostly, and an elaborate tunneled mountain about 18 inches tall for my brother’s snakes to crawl in. Whenever one of my pet mice died, he’d give me a piece to carve for a gravestone. I still have Minute Mouse’s headstone from […]
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