by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 12, 2010 | Asides
Not that the dictionary next to my bed isn’t working and not that I was going to stop reading DFW because he makes me work, but: Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in dictionary or Wikipedia, or to search for it throughout the book and on the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 14, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 14, 2007 | Asides
I had the pleasure of reading, in its entirety, the latest issue of Outside Magazine today while I sat around Nail World waiting for my oldest daughter and one of her friends to get Man’d and Ped’d for an 8th grade formal tomorrow night. In the issue there...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 3, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Or, why I still won’t allow my wife to make a list of things for me to do… For the last couple of days I’ve been working on a review of a program that implements David Allen’s Getting Things Done techniques using your Macintosh. Now, I have to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 24, 2007 | Beacon Dispatch, Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
The Howland’s beautiful Matire d’ At this very moment I’m working (actually I’m procrastinating and posting here) on an article for the Beacon Dispatch about Florence Northcutt who is the president of the Howland Cultural Center. I also took...
