On all of my drives back and forth between the ATL and the AUB (don’t ask) this week, I kept hearing about the trials and tribulations being heaped on Toyota due to sticky gas pedals, faulty brakes, and general all around failure to move swiftly enough to keep from being just the right whipping boy that American manufacturing has been needing for a long time. It has to be a “funny” place in which Toyota finds itself; I still remember from childhood those slightly unnerving commercials that…

A couple of days ago I was reading an article in the New Yorker where the author used the word “recursion.” I wasn’t quite sure what it meant (seems I remember something about two mirrors facing each other?) so I did what I always do: I Googled it. At the top of the search page Google asked, “Did you mean: recursion” as it always does when it thinks you have misspelled the word or phrase for which you are looking. Since I am such a bad speller,…

Friday began with dark clouds scudding in from the southwest and progressed on to a pretty good, full-fledged snowfall by about 2pm in the afternoon. It snowed into the night, and when we woke up on Saturday it was absolutely glorious! Not a cloud in the crystal clear blue sky, and a crisp 25 degrees. I was finally feeling (almost) back on my game, so JT and I decided to go out for a walk around the ‘hood. Our first stop was of course Kavarna Coffee…

Due to my atypical schedule this week, I enjoyed the rare opportunity to listen to Frank Deford’s regular Wednesday morning sports commentary on NPR during my morning drive to work. He of course was talking about the Super Bowl, but true to his high standards of journalism, he never even mentioned  Tim Tebow once. Instead, he discussed the Super Bowl’s fixation on numbers, which by my estimation seems to be rivaled only by just about every single baseball game ever played. Although unmentioned by Deford, it…