The story of George de Hevesy’s (Hevesy György) buried treasure sounds faintly familiar; I think I’ve heard it before. But clearly it isn’t repeated often enough to be common knowledge, and so the story bears repeating. Earlier I’ve written of the heroic self-smuggling of European scientists out of Europe before and from beneath the advancing […]
The ants have returned. You can drive the little buggers back with poison and flamethrowers and boots, but there can be no permanent victory over one of nature’s most successful families. At best, you can weaken a colony to the point where another moves in. I think that’s what happened since last year, when I […]
The ants have returned. You can drive the little buggers back with poison and flamethrowers and boots, but there can be no permanent victory over one of nature’s most successful families. At best, you can weaken a colony to the point where another moves in. I think that’s what happened since last year, when I […]
Someone’s making another go at a privately-owned, for-profit snack bar tucked in a corner of the Montclair Public Library. I think it’s the third attempt I’ve seen in, oh, fifteen years or so, and I wouldn’t bet heavily on any greater success than its predecessors. With several coffee shops, snack stands, and the like just […]
I’m running out of pockets. How can this be? How many pockets does a guy really need to carry his essential stuff—which is to say, how much stuff really is essential? Front left pocket: key ring, car key (which must be kept on a separate key ring, since we share the car), spare change. When […]
I checked out “Summer Wars†from the local library this week. Anime has lost a lot of its sparkle for me, as it does for a lot of fans: what is at first a radical new animative form with amazing explosions and camera swoops, wacky humor, and plenty of cute eventually becomes familiar, and from […]
Over spring break, we took an overnight trip to Boston, partly to visit my high school buddy Brian and his wife, Nattie, but mostly for the food. We went overnight in large part because I wanted to visit two Chinese restaurants of my college days: Mary Chung’s, which Eileene has tried and loves, and King […]
Over spring break, we took an overnight trip to Boston, partly to visit my high school buddy Brian and his wife, Nattie, but mostly for the food. We went overnight in large part because I wanted to visit two Chinese restaurants of my college days: Mary Chung’s, which Eileene has tried and loves, and King […]
We attended Jen’s Passover Seder last night. This was our third or fourth year, so the rituals are becoming familiar by now, though I’m sure we’ll never master the songs. (Foreign words I can handle, but they don’t rhyme, they don’t scan, and often they repeat without prior indication.) One of the rituals, at least […]
We watched a stage performance of Frankenstein last night, and it was time well-spent. (Technically, we watched a live broadcast of a stage performance, but since we had to go to a theater to see it, I figure that’s close enough.) The rendition was fairly faithful to the book, and thus had little in common […]