Sports.. What a Preakness! It took almost the whole home stretch for I’ll Have Another to catch Bodemeister. Did you pay to watch on tv? It was available for free over-the-air on NBC. Going low-tech… TrainGranny is new blogger. Nice post on the simple pleasure of looking out of a train window: Looking Out Train [...]
Human (and wind) Powered News Sailor Matt Rutherford welcomed home in Annapolis after sailing solo around the Americas For 10 months, as he completed a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the Americas aboard a 27-foot sailboat — a feat certified as unprecedented by the U.S. Sailing Hall of Fame — Rutherford had scarcely had any human [...]
Living History “The Hatton Ferry is the last pole operated ferry in America. America moved west on these ferries and it is only fitting that the last one is still working on America’s River, the birth place of the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown on the James River.” Sports The Kentucky Derby is on free [...]
Low-Tech Toys: In praise of the simple, low-tech LEGO THE TOYOLOGIST: Loving low-tech Investigate Further: Old fashioned toys and games Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
Quote of the Week from Chris Terry of Ford in NPR’s Stop Downshift In Manual Transmissions story: It’s about actually having a connection to the mechanical part of the car. Related: What do Barack Obama and John McCain have in common? Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js [...]