Clippings

A trip to my archives

Recorded in March at Tumblr   

“Writing things down enforces slowness, and by extension, thoughtfulness.”

Elizabeth Spiers on keeping a notebook in the digital age. Complement with Joan Didion on keeping a notebook, Virginia Woolf on keeping a diary, and Mary Gordon on writing by hand. (via explore-blog)

Glass and Androids

I've been curious about Google's Glass for a long time now. AJ Jacobs really got my attention this morning with a coupler of assertions in this tale of his own experience with Glass: You cannot stop technology and his final We are on the long slow march to becoming part Android.  (Well, alright, when he spoke about how polarizing Glass is he said "You either love it or hate it—It's like Hillary Clinton or cilantro.") As if to confirm his prediction Jefrey Cufaude and Eric Topol made sure I paid attention to an article in The New York Times this morning:



Thanksgivukkah

Doesn't sound like this story from Metropolitan Diary last year would gain much traction this year.

Dear Diary:

Around this time of year, many Jewish parents of young children find themselves saying something like: “We do not celebrate Christmas! We are Jewish. We celebrate Hanukkah. And, no, you cannot have a Christmas tree.”

So it tickled my New York soul to hear the following as I entered the subway station at West 86th Street and Broadway: “We do not celebrate Hanukkah. We are Christian. We celebrate Christmas. And, no, you cannot have a dreidel.”