LGA to Stamford, CT?
What's the best way to get from La Guardia airport (LGA) to Stamford, CT during the evening rush hour? A lot of details inside. My flight arrives at 5:20pm on a Thursday. I will not have checked...
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Part of my current job involves manipulating a large amount of data. I need to learn how to do this more efficiently and on a larger scale. What should I use? What should I learn? What is the best...
View ArticleHalf-remembered quote about poets
I read, somewhere, a quote about poets to the effect that even successful poets have day jobs, collect disability payments or come from money. I vaguely recall that this was said (or written) by a...
View ArticleWho is this picture of? (Yes, I know, "Of whom is this picture...")
A friend found this picture in the basement of his apartment building, and it's killing us to try to figure out who it is. A roomful (OK, a barful) of people were convinced that it is "someone", but we...
View ArticleWhat is that book of cover art from self-released records?
I feel like an idiot "wasting" a question on this, but it's driving me crazy and I am experiencing uncharacteristic google failure. Some time in the last few months I read reviews of a book of cover...
View ArticleWhat is this tree/shrub thing?
I am trying to identify a tree (or shrub thing pruned into a vaguely tree-like shape) that I walk by every day. It has purplish/magenta-ish blossoms and it smells lovely. No it is not a lilac. It is...
View ArticleMusic to write by
I'm getting sick of writing to the same music. Suggest me new stuff please. Nitpicky particulars and what I'm listening to right now inside. I don't know that there's a word for the type of music I'm...
View ArticleWhat to eat, see and do in the "other" Portland
We will be spending a few days in Portland, Maine, at the end of August. What should we do? Where should we eat? What shouldn't we miss? "We" is my wife and myself. We live in Portland, Oregon, and...
View ArticleHelp me remember a half-forgotten quote about crickets and silence
I've been trying to remember both the wording and the source of a quote I once heard to the effect of "If you want to make a loud noise, be so quiet you can hear the crickets, then take away the...
View ArticleShort American horror fiction by authors who aren't white men?
I'm teaching a unit on American horror fiction to 11th graders, and the curriculum I inherited is made up of 100% white, 100% male authors. I would like to to supplement that with other voices. I'm...
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