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Postmodern Pancakes
01.27.2005
On Saturday morning, just as the snow forecast was turning truly apocalyptic, I took the train over to Greenwich Village to eat breakfast at the famous with , and watch the snow start falling.
Many bookish people mention a sad moment in ch...
Little Tragedies
02.21.2005
For all its frustrations, this Boldino autumn was also the most productive period of Pushkin's life - and calling Pushkin productive is like saying that
Genghis Khan had a bit of a mean streak. In betwe...
Dabblers and Blowhards
04.04.2005
I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would *really* like to avoid it - Paul Graham, posting on
About two years ago, the Lisp pro...
The Unbearable Thinness of Crust
04.20.2005
The most overrated pizza in the world requires a little bit of a road trip, to New Haven, Connecticut. (not a typo, just an affectation) is only two blocks down from , a perfectly wonderful pizza place, and both places claim to have invented ...
A Rocket To Nowhere
08.03.2005
There are , firmly or tentatively, through 2010, when the current orbiter is supposed to retire in favor of a yet-to-be-designed replacement (which will not fly until 2014). On the eve of this launch, NASA put the likelihood of losing an orbiter at 1 in 100, a somew...
A Voyage Down The Gowanus
09.15.2005
Built in the 1860's to give Brooklyn more access to barge traffic, the Gowanus was once the busiest shipping canal in the United States. It brought in most of the brownstone used in the 19th century building boom, and it remained a major commercial canal right through ...
A Different Kind Of WTC Story
10.12.2005
There is a I work on nearly directly under the Queensboro Bridge, on the east side of Manhattan. My painting spot is next to the service entrance of a tall condominium tower, so I usually interact with the building's more infirm residents, and with the small army of Hispanic and Polish suppor...
Meanwhile Back In Space
10.24.2005
The most striking thing about the newly updated from NASA is what it leaves out. Other than the sensible decision to reuse the main engines and solid rocket boosters, it's as though the Space Shuttle never happened. Earlier proposals for a crew exploration vehicle (CEV) had sh...
Dating Without Kundera
11.16.2005
One of the terrors of dating is Milan Kundera, and specifically, , the sexually-transmitted book that this Czech-born author has inflicted on a generation of American youth.
Given these requirements, it's not surprising that many people have gravitated towards . Th...