Jack is Back
The jack-in-the-pulpits have started appearing along the trail to the meadow. There aren’t as many as the bumper crop we had two years ago, but its better than I feared after all of the...
Author: Mike Garrity
Mother’s Day
Every year in Boston, the arboretum has an event called Lilac Sunday. It’s on Mother’s Day, and you can go picnic in their amazing lilac collection. Unfortunately, some years the lilacs bloom too early....
Joshua Bell
This afternoon we went in to Symphony Hall to see Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto. It was a pretty amazing performance. The violin...
The Quickening Art
We went to an interesting play last night. It’s called Yesterday Happened: Remembering H. M.. It’s about the life of Henry Molaison. He’s famous in the medical literature as HM. In 1953, experimental brain...
Tower Park Battle
This weekend is a busy one here in Lexington. Patriot’s Day is celebrated on Monday, but there’s stuff going on all weekend. This afternoon there was a battle reenactment at Tower Park. It was...
Engineering Competition
The competition for Tom’s engineering project was at the High School this evening. Here are Tom and his partner Matt arriving at the scene. One of the rules is that the machine had to...
Tom’s Engineering Project
Tom’s physics class has been working on an engineering project. They need to build a machine which will put 11 corks into a box. There are a bunch of rules about size and placement....
The Blog as Commonplace Book
I really enjoyed this article on The Millions by Shaj Mathew which compares blogs to commonplace books. I think that it’s a really good analogy. At least that’s pretty much how I use this...
Out of Print
Did you hear the news? The Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. The 2010 edition was the last paper version. Isn’t that sad? I spent hours pouring through it in the library when...
