The Week is a Great Magazine

I get way too many magazines sent to my place, but one that i read every week is The Week.   It’s a great mix of all news and i recommend it for anyone.  There was also a great little article in the New York Times about how it got started and why it is different [...]

Running in Kenya

There’s a Sports Illustrated article this past week about running in Kenya profiling Alberto Salazar.
As big as we are, we have fewer people to draw on. In Kenya there are probably a million schoolboys 10 to 17 years old who run 10 to 12 miles a day. . . The average Kenyan 18-year-old has [...]

Chris Rock on Music

I read the new Rolling Stone over the weekand Chris Rock has some good lines….
Chris Rock: Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you’d spend getting great songs together, you’re busy doing nine [...]

D.C. Driver’s License and MetroCard to merge

I just read this article which mentions that a new DMV program that would install SmarTrip chips into every new D.C. driver’s license and identification card beginning in October, 2008. This is sweet. Another card i won’t need to carry around in my wallet and hopefully it’ll get more people riding the [...]

Einstein’s Cosmos

Just finished the book Einstein’s Cosmos, which is a great look into the life of the genius physicist Albert Einstein.
The book has lots of interesting facts about Einstein.  Some that i remember: He was born in Germany but he had such a bad experience in his youth, he renounced his citizenship when he was 17
He [...]