My over 900 articles on this site have rarely gone viral in that they amass thousands of responses or get picked up by national media. I’m just not that big. (And I don’t try to be; after one unpleasant experience, I vowed never again to pay to boost visibility of blog posts via social media
Cute little dog! A French bulldog, it seems? It’s got those bat ears. Are they still both the most popular and most expensive dog breed in the country? Doesn’t matter. I wrote a feature about regulating animals in privately owned businesses barely a month ago; I don’t usually return to a topic that quickly. And
Bear with me. This article is almost too dinky for a mini-post. Really more of a Tweet (what do they call those now, after the renaming?), so I’m stretching the content to its limits, inversely, by posting fewer words than just about ever. But the previous article on the Durham Can Opener took me way
It’s been a long time coming. But only within the last few weeks, after encountering a big sign at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), did I achieve full awareness of a condition that has crept across the American social domain: indoor dogs everywhere. Here was my indicator: If it’s not immediately obvious, the overhead
I don’t want to belabor a point, which is why I rarely avoid two articles on the same subject in rapid succession. And besides, my May writeup on shopping cart security breaches didn’t generate a whole lot of buzz, perhaps because most readers are one step ahead: I was pointing out a feature that was
Saying “I like Trader Joe’s” isn’t very edgy; it’s not going to instigate a revolution anywhere. They aren’t exactly fighting words. Ranking right up there with California phenomenon In-N-Out Burger as one of the least controversial chains that dole out food, a person is far more likely to provoke fisticuffs for saying “Trader Joe’s is
I can’t exactly claim to belong to some sort of refined or elite contingent when I say I’m a big fan of small, old, and neglected cemeteries; lots of people think these relics are pretty cool. But I try my best to at least document them when I stumble across them, elevating my interest to
After over 800 articles penned, I have consistently asserted that the point of this blog is to put forward empirical arguments. I try to extract greater meaning from what I observe. Data and second-party research supplements or substantiates the arguments I try to make. Not every blog post uses outside articles, legal documentation, and/or statistics.
Slaters Lane is a disproportionately important street in Alexandria, Virginia, considering its brief length. From end to end, it measures only a half of mile, and an additional 500 feet of that length is a stub that dead-ends into an office/residential complex near the Potomac River a bit further eastward. But the other ~2100 feet
It’s a busy time of year and I need to meet my monthly blogging goals, so I’m going to cheat a little bit and piggyback on my previous article. To be frank, it’s a double-cheat, since I usually try to avoid featuring the same state for two blog articles in a row. But here I
My over 900 articles on this site have rarely gone viral in that they amass thousands of responses or get picked up by national media. I’m just not that big. (And I don’t
Cute little dog! A French bulldog, it seems? It’s got those bat ears. Are they still both the most popular and most expensive dog breed in the country? Doesn’t matter. I wrote a
Bear with me. This article is almost too dinky for a mini-post. Really more of a Tweet (what do they call those now, after the renaming?), so I’m stretching the content to its
It’s been a long time coming. But only within the last few weeks, after encountering a big sign at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), did I achieve full awareness of a condition
I don’t want to belabor a point, which is why I rarely avoid two articles on the same subject in rapid succession. And besides, my May writeup on shopping cart security breaches didn’t
Saying “I like Trader Joe’s” isn’t very edgy; it’s not going to instigate a revolution anywhere. They aren’t exactly fighting words. Ranking right up there with California phenomenon In-N-Out Burger as one of
I can’t exactly claim to belong to some sort of refined or elite contingent when I say I’m a big fan of small, old, and neglected cemeteries; lots of people think these relics
After over 800 articles penned, I have consistently asserted that the point of this blog is to put forward empirical arguments. I try to extract greater meaning from what I observe. Data and
Slaters Lane is a disproportionately important street in Alexandria, Virginia, considering its brief length. From end to end, it measures only a half of mile, and an additional 500 feet of that length
It’s a busy time of year and I need to meet my monthly blogging goals, so I’m going to cheat a little bit and piggyback on my previous article. To be frank, it’s