I’m sitting in a Borders bookstore, sipping coffee and running my business, thanks to T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi network and a Sony Vaio laptop that is more powerful than the 2.4Ghz Pentium IV sitting in my office back in Arlington, Virginia. I’ve been on the road for a while and the Vaio and Wi-Fi networks have...
End of a long love affair
Drove our TR-6 for the last time Saturday, taking her from our home in Arlington over to her new owner’s home in Alexandria. The exhaust gave out a sweet sound as we drove along the George Washington Parkway. Drivers, as they always do, paused to give the French Blue two-seat British roadster a second...
Technology changes but stupidity remains the same
In 1972, I stood in the freezing weather and snow outside the offices of the Manchester Union-Leader in New Hampshire and watched Senator Edmund Muskie break down in tears and destroy his Presidential campaign. Muskie, the clockers and watchers said, didn’t have what it took to be President. Potential Presidents of the United States...
Back in the fold
Yeah, yeah, I know. We haven’t updated in a while. Been busy, very busy, opening a new studio and gallery in Floyd, Virginia. The studio, called Blue Ridge Creative, becomes the focal point for our operations. For those of you who don’t know, Floyd sits in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains, just...
And these guys are supposed to keep us safe?
Charles Brady, acting chief of the Transportation Security Administration at Washington’s Dulles International Airpot, was supposed to be on duty during the hightened Orange security alert on New Year’s eve. But he was drunk instead. Brady should have been on duty at 1 a.m. New Year’s Day but was spotted driving erratically on Virginia...