The release this week of the 1940 Census brings the past a lot closer to us — the 1930 census was just far enough away that it seemed like ancient history, but the 1940 census is filled with people we might actually [more...]
The advent of the contextual web ad has produced some interesting juxtapositions… like this one I saw last night on the Apple Insider website, a page devoted to Mac news and rumors… and a little bit of [more...]
Well, I’ll be damned. Here I’ve been thinking about planting a dogwood in my front yard to remind me of home, and all along I’ve had a reminder of DC right outside my kitchen door: a Japanese Cherry [more...]
