Out of Ambit
Archive for September, 2006
Will New York ban transfats?
Will New York ban transfats? …Should be interesting to see how this plays out…
John M. Ford: gone
But not ever going to be forgotten around here. Old friend, houseguest, fellow writer: we genuinely will not see his like again. Mike had the unique gift of making the people around him feel (and be) wittier, smarter, more creative than they usually were. So being in Mike’s company left one in an unusual state [...]
Start the Ryder Cup without me
(sigh) I was going to be up bright and early this morning to watch the golfing proceedings start…but in the wild post-hurricane weather of last night, power lines went down all over eastern Kildare and northern Wicklow; with the result that we lost our electricity about eight-thirty last night, and it’s not back up yet. [...]
Changes at EuropeanCuisines.com: stop by and kick the tires
I’ve been thinking about the redesign of EuropeanCuisines.com for a while now: while there’s a lot of data there, the site’s started to seem very static in terms of what other food sites have to offer. So we’re starting to make some changes. We’ve started a new version of the site based on the open-source [...]
And the needle on the Irono-Meter whacks right up against the stops
Duane “Dog” Chapman of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” fame has just been released on bail after an arrest on foot of an extradition request from Mexico. They want him on a charge of illegal detention: apparently he chased a criminal to Mexico and caught him there. But bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico. The part [...]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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