The Limit
There is, it seems, for each of us, a fixed number of words. During the course of one’s life, there is a maximum. I tell you this not as a fact, but as a warning.…
Price Tower
(January 17, 2009) At a Lambda Alpha meeting the other day, at a table full of architects, the subject of the Price Tower came up. I’m not a fan, and I said so, calling it…
Too Much Coffee
October 7, 2016 Our school had a fair every year, sort of a mini-Renaissance Fair called the Rites of May. It took place in, well, May, in the courtyard of the school. This being Hyde…
Romeo
The new release of West Side Story, I’m told, doesn’t include the big duet of Somewhere that’s in the 1960s movie. It was a big deal, with Natalie Wood and whoever the dude was singing…
Mount Desert Island
Too much to say about this place, but it’s officially an FAQ so here goes: Flights You want to fly into Bangor (BGR) approximately 75 minutes from here, or Bar Harbor (BHB) approximately 10 minutes…
Japan Tourism Ideas
Dear Eli – Congratulations, you’ve asked me a Frequently-Asked Question and I have time. General So where to go / what to do in Japan? A few disclaimers – I don’t look for the best…
Cicadas
(With apologies to H.P. Lovecraft – as I walked this morning listening to the cicada hum, the noise gave me a creepy feeling of dread, and I wondered how he would write about the bugs…
Grandpa Dan’s Peanut
February 25.2022 “I don’t care if it did happen that way. Change it. It’s boring.” – My sophomore creative writing teacher. I don’t know if this story is true. In retrospect, I doubt it. It’s…
Key facts from the shop manual
This isn’t the whole manual, just a few key elements that you really need. For example, you don’t really need to know what the speedometer does, but adjusting the brakes and clutch might be nice.…
Sports
OK, this is the new version of this page. It was the oldest page in Shlaes.com, and dated from the “type your own HTML” days in the 1990s. Yet people begged me to leave it…