MCRI Spokesman and frequent commenter sent me this link — the Michigan Court of Appeals has overridden a vote of the Board of State Canvassers and ordered the Secretary of State to put the proposal on the ballot. MCRI opponents are expected to appeal the decision to the Michigan Supreme Court.
You Are Either in Michigan or Near Washington, D.C.
The other day I stumbled across gVisit.com, a website that gives you some simple javascript to plug into your website whereby “You will be given your own URL that lets you track the visitors to your website using Google Maps.” Prett neat, I thought, and plopped it in. Today on a whim I clicked on […]
Gadgets, Get Yer Gadgets
Today I broke down and purchased a Treo 650. Before I wasn’t exactly in the technological dark ages, but using a slightly obscure smartphone manufactured by Samsung called the i500 (all the way on the left). The phone worked fine and had a solid OS, but like many older phones didn’t support SMS messaging. To […]
Inward Looking Places
This is the sort of topic I suspect has been written about elsewhere, just nowhere I can find through some preliminary Googling. Like many urban neighborhoods, my neighborhood of Shaw has been gentrifying slowly for a number of years after experiencing heavy disinvestment in the 1950s and 60s. That means many blocks contain not only […]
The Chestnut Tree Cafe
The Chestnut Tree Cafe was a short-lived project of mine to collect pithy quotes about society on an anonymous Blogspot blog. Like many an ill-fated blog project, it was abandoned in the face of more pressing obligations. If I may be humored the point, it became as neglected as its namesake, yet like the purloined […]
Because You Asked
In January I will be starting as a Research Historian at History Associates Incorporated, a company that conducts historical research for both public and private sector clients.
What’s An Editor-At-Large?
Today I announced my resignation as editor in chief of DCist. I plan on following the footsteps of SFist’s Jackson West and LAist’s Jason Toney and become an editor-at-large of the site. Except, I am not quite sure what that means and have not been able to find a good definition on the web. I […]