Beatles For Sale
For Christmas I got 6 Beatles albums, giving me a complete set. Most of what I got were the early albums: Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, and Beatles for Sale. I also got two late discs I’ve never really listened to: Yellow Submarine and Let It Be. In iTunes I’ve arranged them chronologically and I’ve been going through them this weekend. I knew that in those early albums there were many covers, some of them very well known. There have also been plenty of songs I’d never heard before. The Album that’s surprised me the Read more…
Wherein Erik heartily recommends “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”
I stayed up late last night to finish Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." I feel a little late to the party with this one. I first noticed the cover at Powells when I was there in November. And then suddenly everyone seemed to be reading it. And rightly so! It was a great mystery and a great read. As I'd been warned, it starts a little slow: the mystery seems to be about financial industry shenanigans, but Larsson moves past it and explores a mystery that becomes engrossing, though also graphic and brutal. Forewarning: the original Swedish Read more…
Worldwide development
Somehow I found myself working on a job with developers in New York, NY; Charlotte, NC; Santa Monica, CA; Bozeman, MT; Sydney, Australia; and London, England. Very happy my phone can keep my time zones straight.
Looking ahead
2010 is starting off quickly. We've got a big dinner tonight for City Club and there's plenty of work for Mary Holste Design. It's a good combo. But I still want to do a little reflection here. At the tail end of 2008, I wrote that I wanted to become more civically active in Tacoma. That took off in a big way with City Club. A non-profit dedicated to civic dialog and discussion? Sign me up! I didn't know how I was going to do it exactly, but I do feel that it was one goal (I hate calling them resolutions) Read more…
A short trip to Carleton
I had a great time on our epic tour of the Midwest (4 states, 12 nights) but it feels great to be home. One surprise bonus right at the end was a day trip to Carleton. Here are some pics of the college under a lot of snow and temps in the single digits. First time I’ve been back in the winter since 2003. See the full gallery on Posterous
The new Satellite on Market
via weeklyvolcano.typepad.com Looking forward to getting back to Tacoma so I can check out the new Satellite Coffee by the downtown Y! Looks very cool.
The long slow journey home begins …
We’re leaving Madeline Island today for out last stop: Minneapolis. We won’t be there too long, just enough to see some friends before we fly back Monday. The picture is where we are right now. It’s 3 degrees, so this was taken through a window. The white “shore” you see in the distance is actually ice built up against the real shore, which is well out of sight. In two or three weeks, most of Lake Superior will be frozen over.
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