So, this was dessert. We made a stack of pizzas tonight. This was the last one. I even have the blister on the back of my wrist where I brushed the hot oven wall to prove it. But apple pizza? Thirty years ago in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia there was Pizzeria Tomaso with Mr. Tomaso still …

The Great Lakes from space earlier today. Look at all that good cheddar.

I heard the news about Aaron Swartz like everyone else. And then I heard another way as way back when I started blogging I belonged to the Berkman Thursday discussion group through the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I still get the digests via email when something is …

I missed December. Blame the bastardly disorder that has had me and half the town since November. Never seen such a thing. Been sicker. Never so sick for so long. It don't go away. Remember 2011-12? That was good. Except, me, I had pneumonia.

Another in the occasional series showing how my place of work was protected by a seawall... or a lake wall at least with cannon. I like how this drawing by George Harlow White from 1876 gives a sense of scale of the wall's height.

Hurricane Sandy. Sounds too benign to be a real threat. It's only a category one at the moment. Nothing like when Juan bashed the family cottage nine years ago. Not like Gustav the year before that knocked down the big old birth at the farm house. But still a big water dump is a coming. Six cm or …

I better make some comment on this election, make some statement given the history around here even if the digital world has deemed blogs to commentary what 8-tracks are to fine audio media.  •  I was over in the states yesterday and found an active economy. My favorite lunch spot, the Fairgrounds …

As I described six years ago, it was a sunny beautiful day like today. Here is what I wrote in 2003. Here is what I wrote in 2004 including comments I wrote at Acts of Volition in September 2001.

h/t kottke.