Houston
I work at the northern terminus (UH-Downtown) of the new MetroRail line and I commute on public transit, so I've been looking forward to the opening of the line. I rode it yesterday and today, between the UH-Downtown station and the Main Street Square station. I
History
Josh Marshall excerpts an interview with Peter Drucker, who argues that India will be a greater economic power in the future than China. I've long believed that India rather than China would be the nation to eventually supplant the United States as the world's leading superpower,
Food
Earlier this weekend, I had the best pizza I've had since moving to Texas (admittedly not a high bar to clear). Sicily Pizza & Pasta's pie won't make anyone forget New Jersey's finest, but if you live in Houston, it's
Miscellany
I spent Christmas in Meridian, Mississippi, which is a city of 40,000 people surrounded by countryside for 60 miles in every direction. My brother and I talked a bit about how rural Mississippi is, which made me wonder whether it was the most rural state. So I pulled out
Remarks
(The below was written in 1972, 12 years before the Bhopal disaster that it unintentionally and eerily prefigures.) There's a Little Bit of Union Carbide in Everybody's Home Supermoney
Miscellany
One test of a friendship or a love affair: All other things being equal, are you happier because you know and see the person? More importantly, is he or she happier for knowing and seeing you? The difference between infatuation and love: If you're infatuated, you're
LIS
According to one of my library school professors, doctoral candidates could make money back in the day by writing article abstracts for the article-abstract databases that libraries subscribe to. She told us that students would often write these abstracts while hung over on a Saturday or Sunday morning. I
Politics
The signal-to-noise ratio of political blogs and Usenet political newsgroups would soar if their participants would remember this simple point: The world is full to the gills with stupid people who say awful things on the Internet. Pointing this out doesn’t constitute a political argument. One of
Music
Cover songs can be fun, which is probably why everyone has been writing about them lately. Three kinds of covers stand out for me: Covers that re-make. Gifted musicians can take a song with a good basic structure and translate it seamlessly into a different style. Stevie Wonder'
Houston
The University of Houston football team will play in the Hawai'i Bowl on Christmas Day, but few Cougar fans will make the trip. As a result, the UH athletic department (apparently taking an idea from CoogFans) is allowing people to buy tickets to the game for soldiers and
Houston
Took the day off work to finally see The Heroic Century, the MOMA traveling exhibit which will be at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through January 4. Highlights for me were the two Seurats, Van Gogh's "The Starry Night", Dali's "The Persistence
Houston
After work yesterday, I walked down the new light rail line on Main Street from the UHD campus to Midtown. The difference between Main Street now and what it was three years ago is astonishing: The rail line and the stations, of course, but also the new sidewalks and pavement,