In the last two months I have written about serifs, in this piece about “Stig of the Dump” and this piece about readability. Perhaps I should have clarified what a serif is and what it does. Webopedia, here, describes it as a “small decorative line added as embellishment to the basic form of a character”… Continue reading More about serifs
My sleep patterns are flexible, much more so than when I was younger. I wrote about it last year in this piece, “Usually I’m Anthony Trollope, but not this week”. I am capable of staying up till 3am, or going to bed before 9pm and waking up between 3 and 4am. These days I’m usually… Continue reading Cup Final Foolishness
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] 18 years ago today I returned to London from my first trip to New York City. As I noted a week ago I can piece together… Continue reading New York City 21 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] I woke before 6am, in the guest room of my old school-friend’s home in Old Greenwich Connecticut. I had breakfast with him and his wife. A… Continue reading New York City 20 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] After a quiet Tuesday, Wednesday 19 May 1999 was busier and more memorable. We woke before 9am for the first time since the previous Saturday, and… Continue reading New York City and Old Greenwich Connecticut 19 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] So far, in recounting the first four days of my first trip to New York City I have relied on my memory. I haven’t even dug… Continue reading New York City 18 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] Monday 17 May 1999. We woke late, having stayed up till 4am at Rocky Sullivan’s. We returned to Café Gourmet on Fifth Avenue for breakfast just… Continue reading New York City and Hackettstown New Jersey 17 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City. To start at the beginning of the story, please click here, “New York City 14 May 1999”.] My subject is memory. I can piece together details from every day of my first trip to New York City, 18 years ago this week. Sunday… Continue reading New York City 16 May 1999
[Continued from yesterday’s reminiscences about my first trip to New York City] When you travel west from London your sleep patterns adjust pretty quickly. We had left Heathrow on a Friday morning and crashed out before 10pm Eastern Time, 3am London Time. The following day all three of us woke early, before 6am, and headed… Continue reading New York City and Hoboken New Jersey 15 May 1999
It was 18 years ago today that I first set foot in New York City. I had been to Utah a couple of times for the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the 1990s, and had walked a few hundred yards in Minnesota, changing planes at Minneapolis St Paul airport en route to Salt Lake City.… Continue reading New York City 14 May 1999
The Compartments 