New Year’s
We didn’t stay up late last night. We did celebrate a bit after Tom hit submit on another college application. It’s not his last one, but he’s getting pretty close to the end. Today...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
We didn’t stay up late last night. We did celebrate a bit after Tom hit submit on another college application. It’s not his last one, but he’s getting pretty close to the end. Today...
We went to see the Pompeii exhibit at the Museum of Science today. I’m at the museum several times a week to work, but I don’t actually get to see the exhibits until we...
Ok, we did end up getting a ridiculously large roast. On the other hand, it cooked up beautifully. I followed the process described for Classic Prime Rib, but rubbed the outside with the spices...
Have you ever seen an ice spike? They occur sometimes when the surface of a body of water freezes quickly. When the water below the surface freezes, it expands and forces itself out through...
We hope that your family’s Christmas Eve has been as nice as ours has this year. The weather in Lexington has been wonderful this year. On the first day of winter it was in...
It’s been a very busy year at our house. Peter finished middle school and moved up to the high school. Tom is now a senior, and a lot of the year was spent in...
The 2011-2012 season may not get started until Christmas Day, but yesterday was the first time that Celtics fans could get a look at this year’s potential Celtics at an open Practice held at...
Last night we went to see Vijay Iyer’s trio at the Berklee Performance Center. They were really something. Their music is really complex, with lots of different threads orbiting around each other. But it...
I really enjoyed this BBC documentary called 1959: The Year that Changed Jazz. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 It’s focuses on the albums Kind of Blue, Time Out, Mingus Ah Um,...
This is a great visualization of all of the asteroids discovered between 1980 and 2011. I’m linking to it instead of embedding it because you’re going to want to go play it at really...
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