An item in the Washington Post yesterday caught my attention … and annoyed me on several counts. It’s a discussion of single spacing vs. double spacing at the end of a sentence. All the emphasis seems to be on readability,… Read More ›
Who do you trust?
Apparently we have a president-elect who likes or even prefers communicating via Twitter to whatever audience frequents and gets its sometimes-fake news from social media. For better or worse (I think worse), they all seem content to bypass our mainstream media. Not that the… Read More ›
Saddest news of the week
As a child I spent hours camped in front of yellow stacks of National Geographic magazines. I don’t think my parents ever threw out a copy. Each was cherished as a repository of scientific fact, a ready reference for all the… Read More ›
Walking back the news, or not
The issue came up this morning on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” The story in question was the one about allegedly drunk Secret Service agents crashing into or through a White House security barricade. At least that’s how the story was blasted… Read More ›
Readability and those pesky paywalls
There are ways around most paywalls.
Changing fonts to save ink dates back as far as 2008
You may recall that about three weeks ago a teenager made national headlines by coming up with an idea to save on printing costs by changing the font used. As it turns out, young Suvir Mirchandani was not the first to have… Read More ›
Go with Garamond, reduce printing costs
There’s a fascinating story on the CNN website today. Fascinating, at least, to those interested in reducing printing costs. Hard to believe no one thought of it before. A teenager, 14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani, was trying to think of ways to save money and… Read More ›
Crimea and the Clancy coincidence
Shades of Tom Clancy. The Russian Navy. The Cold War. The Cuban missile crisis. Putin. Ukraine. Sochi. Russian invasion. All running through my head this afternoon. Déjà vu, etc. Reports vary, but it appears the Russians may have invaded Crimea,… Read More ›
Clancy’s inspiration for the Red October music/singing
I’ve no idea how the subject came up a few days ago when I was talking with my son. But suddenly he was telling me what Tom Clancy had told him a few years ago*: In the movie The Hunt… Read More ›
Becoming Tom Clancy: My letters from Tom – Part 4 of 4
Tom Clancy, self-described “boy writer,” recounts his life immediately before and after the publication of his first novel, “The Hunt for Red October.”
