Frank B.

Frank B.

Snapshot: The Election

Spotted in a Los Angeles office complex:

Disneyland

Isa and I were invited by friends to Disneyland this week. We’d never been, so we accepted the offer. We parked, and waited in line for a tram. Then we waited in another line for a security check. Then we waited for tickets. The inside of the park: We walked down the fabled Main Street, […]

Holy Photoshop!!! II

Bob Costas, circa Athens Bob Costas, circaBeijing (I’ll leave the punchline hanging like a nice Chinese Olympic curveball)

Holy Photoshop!!!

Three photos. Same Carrie Underwood. Doesn’t she look like someone completely different on the left/cover photo?

The Hypotenuse?

I use a G5 (Mac). I’m amazed by its stability but my background was web programming so I maintain (for sport) other boxes on my little home network; I have linux and windows machines as well. John gave Isa an IBook for school this year (his old one). It’s a decent thing, but it clearly […]

Dead Bees, More Flies… Why?

Okay, so by now I’m sure you’re all aware -through various stories in the media- that honey bees are apparently dying mysteriously all across the country. Well, not knowing a damn thing about bees, I sort of assumed it was mainly the kinds of bees that are employed by beekeepers. You know, that breed of […]

Process Diagram

This appears on my screen whenever I am prompted to change my password at work.

The Nightstand Drawer

Last week we loaded up the mini van with 2 kids, the dog, mom, dad and plenty of dvds and off we went to Northern Michigan for our vacation. We have never been there before. A lot of midwesterners recommended Michigan so we rented a house in a little town nestled between two lakes. In […]

Brush with Celebrity

Brushes with celebrities are a recurring theme at Salt in Wound. I haven’t had much to add to these posts. For one thing, there are few celebrities in Albany. For another, much of my knowledge about celebrities (Lee Israel? Bernie Brillstein?) actually comes from Salt in Wound So imagine my excitement when I found out […]

Goodbye, Bernie Brillstein

It was reported today that Hollywood heavyweight Bernie Brillstein passed away recently, of causes that I did not retain. I’m not sure of his exact age, but I do know he was pretty old. Bernie, I didn’t know you, but I did know of you, sort of. When I saw the headline today saying you […]

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