A friend’s new two-refrigerator kitchen: | Continue reading
We have a new (better?) Congress as of today. The Uber driver who picked me up recently in “North Bethesda” (Rockville!) happened to be an immigrant from Venezuela. His parents and sibl… | Continue reading
A California Democrat on Facebook posted a link to “College students say they can’t send in their absentee ballots because they don’t know where to buy stamps” (Business Ins… | Continue reading
… but not Mexico? “Barbra Streisand Can’t Get Trump Out of Her Head. So She Sang About Him.” (nytimes): How are you feeling these days?I want to sleep nights, if we take the Hous… | Continue reading
Folks: What are your election outcome predictions? So much of the ballot in our town is taken up by candidates running unopposed that I haven’t put much effort into considering Massachusetts … | Continue reading
… part of the collection at the New England Air Museum (also a B-29!): | Continue reading
… by voting for Democrats. From “Letter from [MIT] President Reif: Consoling each other and helping to heal the world”: As our nation once again confronts heartbreaking mass viole… | Continue reading
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows identifies the presence of refugees and immigrants as a sign of an American town’s success. What’… | Continue reading
I flew the Cirrus recently to Gaithersburg, an airport that supposedly sees only 131 operations per day (airnav). On the flight from Allentown, Pennsylvania to KGAI, the controllers did not even on… | Continue reading
I’ve recently finished Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James and Deborah Fallows. James is a Cirrus pilot and the couple traveled around via light airplane so I… | Continue reading
The deCordova museum hit the financial wall recently and is being absorbed by a more successful nonprofit. From the press release: Like many non-profits, deCordova has an endowment that has not gro… | Continue reading
A Swiss surgeon recently came to Boston for a conference. East Coast Aero Club prices are 1/3 to 1/2 what it costs to rent a plane in Switzerland so he decided to spend a week before the conference… | Continue reading
I’ve been going back through some old blog postings here as part of the migration effort from Harvard’s server. Here are some things that I got wrong… Media Lab has boomed along w… | Continue reading
As technology takes over American lives, literally in the case of Facebook, I wonder if voting Republican tomorrow isn’t the best way for Americans to #Resist total domination by their smug r… | Continue reading
A subclass of employees of Google today will stop working and “walk out” (to where? a suburban parking lot?). The management of the company says that they support this walkout. Can we i… | Continue reading
A big law firm partner shared the following (friends-only) on Facebook: I have something to say to all the young girls out there. Love yourself. Appreciate your body. Tell yourself that you are bea… | Continue reading
This year we voters in the Land of Righteousness (i.e., Massachusetts) get to decide… Question 3: whether the government should continue to be able to imprison people for up to 1 year and/or … | Continue reading
An East Coast Aero Club customer from Switzerland wanted to burn up some Cirrus SR20 time. So it was off to KHVN and the Yale University Art Gallery. Walking around the campus we saw signs preparin… | Continue reading
From a coastal elite venture capitalist friend on Facebook: When these 5,000+ migrants inevitably arrive at the US / Mexico border and begin to force their way across, what if we rallied 10,000 Ame… | Continue reading
I think it is time to plan a new Bahamas/Caribbean trip. The last one was in 2003 in a Diamond DA-40 (write-up). Back then I wrote “The bible of Caribbean flying is the Bahamas & Caribbea… | Continue reading
Folks: As you may have noticed, as of today this 15-year-old blog is now integrated into my regular philip.greenspun.com server. Can you please test signing up for email alerts, commenting, and any… | Continue reading