Frank B.
Hipness is relative
from the Fort Lauderdale (FL) Sun-Sentinel: Hip new movie house adds social hub to FAU Once known for its placid nightlife, Florida Atlantic University is giving students and the community a reason to be on campus after dark.
Crime and Incident Report
When I was in college, the best part of the student newspaper was the crime and incident report. 20 years later, the tradition lives on. Here is an item from today’s The Miami Student (Oxford, Ohio): Officials find male with head injury At around 2 a.m. Tuesday, Oxford Police Department (OPD) officers were dispatched to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I need a hat
…for all-around general wear, and to keep the top of my head from getting too cold or too sunburned. A baseball cap, specifically. I’ve considered other styles, but all have their shortcomings. A fedora or trilby or pork-pie demands more global wardrobe changes. An Irish wool cap might be fine, except my son wears one. […]
Rogaine team name needed
Next weekend I’m competing in the U.S. Rogaining Championship near Watkins Glen, New York. My teammate is an IT guy from Cornell whom I have yet to meet in person, though we’ve talked on the phone quite a bit. He’s left the naming of the team up to me. The team name is all but […]
Test post
My phone got a bit wet over the weekend, and an hour later we noticed it was automatically dialing Micaela’s phone over and over. When we flipped it open, the normally blue background had turned red. Random malfunction or a cry for help?
Dodge ball!
Last week in Albany a group of local guys set the world record for longest continuous dodge ball game. This event appealed to me in a number of ways. Not the world record part, even though the Guinness Book loomed large in my childhood: in 1976, I was part of the world’s largest kazoo orchestra […]
Jack Silbert, curator