Constantina Tomescu I watched a marathon in real time last night. The women were grinding it out in Beijing, starting off slow in the humid air, but inexorable in pace. The leader at the half-way point took off, and there was drama in each footfall past the TEmple of Heaven and the Forbidden C ity. […]

I lit a candle last night, not because the power to the main board at Big Pink failed, but because The King died this day in his bathroom at Graceland. It is my version of the “Candlelight Vigil,” and drew very few Elvis fans to Tunnel 8.   In Memphis, of course, they lined up […]

Lt General Mike Maples Describes the New Building Daily Progress Photo/Megan Lovett   The Hubrismobile roared out of the Bat Cave under Big Pink just after seven, en route the 29th Division Highway via I-66 and points south. I glanced at the azure waters of the pool, still cloaked in morning shadow as the high-performance […]

This is a complex bit of business. The Olympics are dominating the headlines, followed in short order by the very important matter of Senator Edward’s privates, and where they had been for a short period in 2006.   Coffee first. When your body craves unconsciousness as much as mine does, and the tempo of life […]

There is not a great deal better than making the Saturday List on a sunny day in August.   The possibilities were endless, or nearly so. There was the mundane, of course, the scut-work of putting together the Quarterly, checking the office stuff that would pile up, but there was no Project hanging out there […]

09 August 2008   Time    I have known, as you have, that there is a new force in the world, but I knew it intellectually, and from statistics. Not from the gut. I do now. It had something to do with the nature of time. Halfway around the world, the games were actually in […]

08 August 2008   Cardio   The proposal that was crushing us at the office is done, the pricing complete. It is a nice piece of work, and I am confident it is as good as we can get it.   It was a bitch to move forward, since there were a lot of moving […]

Ah, Thursday. It has an imperative all its own, though this day is ruled by what has been, and concluded, rather than as a launch pad into a desultory Friday and the weekend. What does one do on an August weekend, except pray for the sun, and count the diminishing number of summer days in which […]

  I was in the dental chair late yesterday. Perfect place to be in the summer swelter, and a late appointment, so all the emergencies of the day were there waiting for some spare time to fill in.   Ann is a plump blonde dental tech- a woman of a certain age, if you will, […]

Economist Pa ul Krugman was not down at the pool yesterday, though he should have been. He would have liked it.  The humidity was down, there was a mild breeze and the rays of the sun were warm and inviting, not scorching, and the water was cool and refreshing. I had been downtown, to the […]