Sunday, November 28, 2004

Elijah asked that people make donations to the Greensboro Urban Ministry instead of giving him gifts for his bar mitzvah...but some people just couldn't help themselves, and a pair of Panthers tix for today's game with the resurgent Bucs were handed unto him, and it's supposed to be sunny and 60 degrees in Charlotte this afternoon, and...see ya when we get back. 9:47:41 AM    comment []

Much of this morning's Times mag was dedicated to the proposition that Lisa and I are the worst parents in the land, or maybe the best. We don't let our kids have TVs in their rooms. We routinely say the words "no," "go outside and play," and "because I said so" to the offspring. Yet the paper of record runs a whole issue of its weekly insert educating neurotic parents on the kiddie consumerism we are trying to ignore. 9:20:05 AM    comment []

"I made the assumption...that everyone...was smarter than I was. What I realized later is that everyone makes that assumption, and it allows everyone to learn from one another, which is really cool." -- 17-year-old Robert Gens on working at the MIT Media Lab, as quoted in the Times mag. 9:16:03 AM    comment []

David Wharton: "Greensboro's sexual geography is a little different." 9:12:15 AM    comment []