13 Reasons You Should Start Biking To Work
The ponds at Huffhines.
Since I wrote this blog entry, the weather has cooled off a bit and now I’m able to ride both to and from work. I shoot for about two to three times a week. Now, though, it’s getting dark sooner and pretty soon it’ll be dark when I leave for work and dark when I come home. I have put lights on my bike but I’ll have to think hard about fighting rush hour traffic pre-dawn and post sunset.
Alice Munro is about to have a new book of short stories come out. I’ve always said I think she is the unquestioned master of the form. Her writing is beyond language.
You can read one of the stories, “To Reach Japan” – Here.
This clip is a few years old; I remember the good old days when this is the biggest problem we had to worry about.
Call Me Ishmael
Joe Queenan on how a harmless juvenile pastime turned into a lifelong personality disorder.
TEXAS Tells UN Poll Watchers: Don’t Even Try It
Sheaffer Inlaid Nib
Notes about Notes
Fountain Pens
A surprising number of very technical people have recently re-embraced the fountain pen for everyday writing. They’re drawn to fountain pens not from nostalgia or from a desire for expensive jewelry, but because they enjoy the way the pen feels in their hand — or the way their writing looks on the page.
Sheaffer Triumph Nib
Sheaffer Dolphin Nib
It’s nice to see an Oak Cliff Restaurant, Smoke, get this sort of attention. Nice burger too.
Best Bacon Burgers in the US – Dallas – Smoke
ONN’s Presidential Debate Gives Average Americans Totally Unsupervised Airtime
Bill Chance 
Nothing wrong with a good cold beer.