How to Call Pirates
BBC reporter Mary Harper was having a hard time contacting pirates on the telephone. Enter her 12-year-old daughter to lend her a hand. Isn’t it fantastic that women can have such interesting professional lives while raising kids? Witness this conversation taken from the BBC article:
It was a cold, dark, wet and miserable Sunday afternoon. I [...]
Dreaming the Dead in San Juan Bautista
I felt a little ill after going through the mission at San Juan Bautista. What were those mission bells used for, did you say? It’s easy to see the beauty of a mission’s architecture and easy to overlook the exploitation that took place during the Spanish conquest. Paid my respects at the gravesite, where [...]
love & technology: chat, text, & tweet as often as you brush your teeth (hopefully 3-4x/day)
How much can technology help a relationship? A lot. Chatting, tweeting, and texting are fun, flirty things to do. Make your sweetheart feel loved and give them attention they’re craving. It reveals aspects of yourself and your romantic target that you didn’t know about. How are you using your computer, cell phone or any other [...]
The Sweetest Election: Media Deluge?
Yesterday, when my boyfriend and I sat down to watch the election results, I felt naked because I hadn’t brought my babygirl. So, he lent me his lush new MacBook Pro so I could settle into my media: the NYTimes blog, NYTimes election dashboard, WNYC liveblog, and Chicago Tribune blog. We surveyed online versions of [...]