Author Archives: WorldWideWeber

Artisanal

Posted on February 8, 2012 by WorldWideWeber

You’ve heard of artisanal food, right? No? Good for you! But surely you’ve been told not to play with your food. I see you nodding. You did it anyway, right? Good for you! Sometime last year, some folks in Italy really … Continue reading →

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Numerics

Posted on January 7, 2012 by WorldWideWeber

The Dell Inspiron mini, maddeningly, does not include a numeric keypad. This is what you need to enter so-called Alt-codes to produce special characters (e.g., ê, —, “). The workaround you see most often is to use the Character Map … Continue reading →

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Impropiety

Posted on December 29, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

From the You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up Dept.—headline, 28 December 2011: Police storm Church of the Nativity to break up brawling priests That’s the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. Not Pennsylvania—the Holy Land. It seems the Armenians wanted to use Spic and Span, but … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced

Posted on December 26, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Some guy at Slate went to a lot of effort to let us know the ten worst catchphrases of 2011. I confess that the only reason I looked at it was to see if it included an annoying tic I … Continue reading →

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Hitch

Posted on December 20, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Alas, poor Hitchens. I knew him. We all knew him, in a way we rarely come to know other journalists and pundits. I’d also met him, but that doesn’t give me special standing.* He met thousands of people, and they … Continue reading →

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Generation

Posted on November 10, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Will Occupy Wall Street be able to keep up the pressure through the winter? Well, that depends on a lot of things, and not just the weather. Even if enthusiasm remains high, you’ve got mayors and police forces to deal … Continue reading →

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Jobs

Posted on October 7, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Steve Jobs died on October 4, and much is being said about him. There’s no doubt he was an interesting guy. Although I have never owned an Apple product, I don’t care to get into the hoary and endless Mac … Continue reading →

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WWGD?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

There’s nothing like an execution—especially the execution of someone who is probably not guilty of the crime he was charged with—to give the lie to the claim that America is a “Christian nation.” There’s no need to belabor the point. We … Continue reading →

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Dumbstruck

Posted on August 31, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

It’s not that nothing interesting happened in August. Maybe because it was unusually busy, or maybe because I’m becoming increasingly lazy, it will all go unrecorded for now—my faithful reader will have to wait. Bits of August 2011 will undoubtedly … Continue reading →

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Nyawking

Posted on July 16, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Random stuff from a recent brief visit to New York City … There seemed to be more bicycles on the streets than in years past. Two things set them apart from the DC variety: many seats are covered with plastic … Continue reading →

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