The future is as exhilarating as I thought it would be, though I am not wearing a silver unitard. Yet. My wife found a great deal on a Roomba online, and it arrived a week or so ago. A…
Yearly Archives: 2009
Cockpit Cool
In case you are ever worried about your safety aboard an aircraft, take a listen to the exchange between LaGuardia Tower Air Traffic Control, Teterboro Tower, and Captain Sullenberger of US Airways Flight 1549. What you’ll notice absent is…
Why Crows are as Exciting as Elephants
This Sunday, Baby Harbat (daughter), wife, our friends’ 2-year-old daughter and I all went to the zoo. First half: dozey-eyed staring at every exhibit of birds, monkeys, and sleeping pandas. Middle: lunchtime of either frightening continuous consumption (my daughter), or…
Bread! Bread! Circus.
I’ve started to make bread. In the last 6 months I’ve made several types by various methods. It’s the smell…if there is such a thing. The smell of baking bread! It began with the no-knead bread recipe in Cooks…
What is That Stabbing Pain in My Gut?
Is one question I want answered. Preferably by someone who knows more about medicine and anatomy than me. My mother-in-law pointed out, with patience, that my stomach was not low and on my right side, but high up on the…
Get Some Air
Here’s some real craftsmanship. Let me set the scene. December 17, 1957. There’s snow on the ground, Christmas shoppers are flowing in and out of Macy’s, Gimbal’s, and the sidewalks of Manhattan are humming. Jammed in a small booth…
Sump pumped!
Aha! Craftsmanship found! In the most unlikely of places. Let’s flash back to last December. Our Big Rain Event of 2008 left the sump in our crawlspace almost filled up with water (the sump is a 18” wide concrete…
Impounding Headache
Home ownership is something my wife and I have looked forward to for a long time. The chance to truly customize our own nest, to be lords of our very small manor. (As of now, we only have one unruly…
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Those People
Already I’m making my first veer away from craftsmanship. Toonces, no! (For anyone who doesn’t know who Toonces is, shame on you! Of course, in twenty years, this will be like not knowing who the Katzenjammer Kids are today. Go…
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So it begins.
Craftsmanship? I'll find out what it is through this blog. Well-crafted music can come from folks like Yo Yo Ma. Well-crafted speeches can be spoken by Obama. Yesterday, incidentally, we got both. I want to dig, explore, sip, scratch, and…
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