Daily Archives: April 25, 2008

The urge to go small

I’m not sure I understand the urge to “go small” with everything. I recently bought an Insignia 4GB MP3 player, mostly for music and audiobooks. But the thing has about a 1.6-inch screen and is capable of playing videos. On a 1.6-inch screen? Are you kidding me? About the smallest I could imagine going is

Of typewriters classic and modern

The days in which I needed to worry about acne treatment are now behind me, but back in those days I remember buying my first typewriter. Growing up in rural Minnesota, I worked my first job picking rocks out of a field on a local farm; I was injured on that job (run over by