Category Archives: miscellany

August 21, 2006 – 5:00 am

The Trials of Lunch

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In my neighborhood, it’s one week until the start of school, and I’m already happily anticipating not making lunches!  Which is why I was very interested to read “The School-Lunch Test”, by Lisa Belkin, in Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine.  It speaks of a district in Florida that is trying to find out whether changing the makeup of […]

August 11, 2006 – 5:00 am

Friday Five

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I’m taking a week off from blogging – catch you next Friday with the Five!

August 10, 2006 – 5:00 am

While you’re online ….

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…. learning more about today’s thwarted terror plot, as well as which items you can no longer carry on an airplane, check out these happier articles as well (courtesy of the NYTimes) 1.    Happy Meal Hummers I found this Happy Meal toy an interesting choice – and it seems that the NYTimes agrees.  (Sadly, […]

August 8, 2006 – 5:00 am

Loving the data

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As we have previously established my suckerdom for all forms of marketing, let me rave about my new Nike + iPod setup.  Love it!  For $29 (plus new Nike+ shoes) I now have pace and distance information at the touch of my iPod’s center button.  The Nike armband that fits the iPod’s added adaptor is […]

August 7, 2006 – 5:00 am

Rose wines

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The NYTimes SundayStyles had a nice feature yesterday on Rose wines – the hip wine of the summer (although you wonder why they waited until August to tell you about the summer’s hip wine).  There was a nice picture of Sofia Rose to start the article – Domino magazine had featured Sofia earlier this summer as […]