Today in 2013, the last traditional telegram message went out, decades after telephones and smartphones and text messages and so on. So why were there still telegrams here in the 21st Century?
Summer is usually shorts weather, but there’s some new research on pants that’s worth a look, especially when you know that the pants at the center of this work are from 3,000 years ago.
This week in 2005, Kyle MacDonald of Montreal had a red paperclip. This week in 2006, MacDonald had traded away the paperclip, and, after a few more trades, ended up with a house.
There was a story out of Italy where a driver got a ticket for driving 437 miles per hour. That's almost three times as fast as the car could legitimately go.
The four year old says he's texting me. On a block of cheese.
Of all the homes/neighborhoods you've lived in, which is your favorite? Why?
Franklin Pierce Dollar, a photo by bcarlson33 on Flickr. My coworker Stephanie loaned me this piece from the now-scaled-back presidential dollar series.
I was really caught off-guard when you wonderful backers made the DC trip goal in 46 hours. Could you tell? I could barely speak, I was so excited. I also [...]
There’s lots of action in the house these days. We’ll start with upstairs: The construction team has installed all the windows and finished all the framing, including the closets. On [...]
This is just framing, really - we're having the new stair treads cut for us. But it's cool to see the new staircase frame in place.
