Category: Orthogonal

  • Low Flo

    Fall’s accelerating activity both weather and otherwise has slowed my ‘blog flow. It hasn’t been all work and no play as E. and I stretched our 7 year record of being the last out at the Exchange Pool. Don’t worry, I have plenty to say on Carolina North, UNC’s Leadership group (of which I recently […]

  • Hot Spot U.S.A: Apparently Boone, NC

    Following Mark K.’s lead in succumbing to some mid-Summer zaniness…. It appears Appalachian State University, located up in the North Carolina mountains [MAP], is also HOT! HOT! HOT! Click to watch. On a more serious note, what fearful impulse lead ASU to add a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) link to the bottom of each […]

  • Hot Spot U.S.A.

    With tomorrow’s temperatures forecasted to be above 100 degrees, Chapel Hill is going to be one very hot spot. As if centrally scripted, local news folks, punching up the drama of the weather story, have been issuing dire warnings not of the “real” heat but of the “felt” heat. “Think it’s going to be hot […]

  • Trebek: Robocop, not Terminator

    Also, from our July 19 column: we regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek’s robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a “cyborg,” not a “robot.” Ken-Jennings.com regrets the error. Version 2.0 suggestions.

  • “The List” Part 2: From Whole Cloth

    Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. “The Trial”, Kafka Stumbled upon this troubling account from Denver’s ABC 7: You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal […]

  • “The List”

    From the Boston Globe The federal government has inflated the “No Fly List” to 200,000 names. But the list has nabbed more members of Congress than it has terrorists. US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and US Representative John Lewis have been inconvenienced by it, and anyone named David Nelson is likely to face a major […]

  • Ruby and Brian sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G

    “First comes love, then comes marriage“, then comes what in that Web 2.0 carriage? Two of our strongest local blogging activists, Ruby and Brian are tying the knot today (forever memorable because it’s also my wifes b’day). Congratulations and fondest good luck on what promises to be a sweltering July 22nd.

  • Madcap Laughs

    Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett died July 7th (as announced today). Syd’s influence on Brit rock was comparable to the Beach Boys’ Wilson’s (whose Pet Sounds often appears neck-n-neck with “Madcap Laughs” in lists of influential albums) on the US scene. My copy of “Madcap” is sorted into a special sub-section of my album collection along […]