2010
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The Official Peanuts Strip of Salt in Wound
August 21, 1977
I Highly Doubt You Have Any Interest in What I’m Watching on TV
But I’m going to tell you anyway. I have never been ashamed to admit that I’m extremely fond of television. Oh, I know, it rots the brain and making weak for form writeal of languaging. I don’t care, I likes it! So here are the shows I’ve been watching recently. CURRENT FAVORITES Boardwalk Empire (HBO, […]
Don’t Walk
I have always been staunchly pro-pedestrian. But earlier this week when the city installed audible walk signals in the intersection outside my house, there was a problem: they were loud. At least the westward-facing one aimed our way. Seven shrill chirps every 90 seconds, like a partial cycle of a 1980s car alarm. Not quite as […]
My First Job
Many people might think that I was born at my current place of employment. The truth is, I did have a previous job at a different company for 10 long months. “I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible,” as Morrissey once crooned. I’d been hopelessly unemployed the summer after […]
Good Thing We Know Nothing is Less than 99 Cents
A lower price bound is always interesting (taken on my commute) UPDATE: I got this email from a friend: So since the store exists we assume that the set of items in the store with prices is non-empty. The sign provides a lower bound. Thus in the real numbers we are guaranteed to have an infimum, but […]
Another letter to the editor…
…exclusive to Salt in Wound! To the editor: The slogan on your masthead, held in a fierce-eyed eagle’s beak, reads, “the information source for the Capital Region”. And yet Andy Rooney’s column is the precise opposite of information. I know, I know: he is a local institution, 91 years of age, has been doing this […]
Societal Training
I readily admit that I get a little too hopeful about women in train stations, on trains, and on other modes of transport. Some might label it delusional. Others might deem my actions a tad on the creepy side. But to paraphrase a favorite public-service announcement, “I learned it from watching YOU, America!” As evidence, […]
Devolution
Yesterday I learned that during the gubernatorial administration that was in control when my son was between 1 and 9 years old, the word “evolution” was not permitted in any displays or exhibits at the New York State Museum here in Albany. Obviously I’m greatly disappointed by this, not simply because it happened but because […]
Jack Silbert, curator