While at O’Hare this morning, a curiously typical financial transaction occurred.
[Nick throws a dollar bill in my lap]
Michael: “What’s this for?”
Nick: “You gave me a dollar for the vending machine last night.”
Michael: “Oh yeah, I forgot.”
[Michael hands the dollar bill to Tim]
Tim: “What’s this for?”
Michael: “I owe you some money for the cab driver’s tip.”
Tim: [...]
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Inside Tim’s brain
Today I had the pleasure of driving with Tim from Easton, PA to Dulles International Airport. Overall the drive was uneventful. Tim surfed for NPR broadcasts and eventually ended up playing “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me” podcasts from his iPod.
For those of you just tuning into “Thirteen Ways” I feel compelled to reiterate that [...]
eighth blackbird: A Year In Texts
I have an iPhone, which I love. Among the many cool features, it has a pretty much unlimited capacity to store text conversations. Being bored one day, I was flipping through the text exchanges I had had with members of the group since I bought the iPhone last October. What follows are highlights and some [...]
