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May 9, 2024: Fuzzy ducklings and their watchful momma in the Public Garden.
Apr 24, 2024: Finished reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 📚 A perfect read for Gen-Xers looking to get back in touch with the existential anxiety that we felt …
Apr 3, 2024: Finished reading: James by Percival Everett 📚 Thrilling and thought-provoking. I am going to have to put the rest of Percival Everett’s previous …
Apr 2, 2024: Looks like our neighborhood swans have decided to settle down. They build impressively large nests!
Feb 16, 2024: Finished reading: The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian 📚In any long book series, there are some duds among the bangers. This one was draggier …
Jan 19, 2024: Finished reading: Erasure by Percival Everett. 📚 American Fiction was my favorite movie of 2023, so I was eager to read this, the source novel. I …
Jan 12, 2024: Finished reading: Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King 📚 San Francisco is one of my …
Dec 18, 2023: A little breezy in Jamaica Plain this morning.
Dec 7, 2023: This year’s Boston Christmas Tree has a perfect shape. Thanks and a Merry Christmas to you, Nova Scotia! 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Dec 6, 2023: Finished reading: Starter Villain by John Scalzi 📚 Scalzi knows how to deliver a diverting, fast-paced, funny story. The class-conscious cetaceans …
Dec 3, 2023: Finished reading: Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian 📚I’m two books in to my decennial re-reading of the Aubrey/Maturin series, and it is …
Oct 26, 2023: Good morning, all.
Oct 15, 2023: Short Review: A Hacker's Mind, by Bruce Schneier Finished reading: A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce Schneier 📚 The author of this …
Oct 7, 2023: As my birthday week winds down, I’d like to thank Starbucks, Peet’s, Panera, Pavement, and J.P. Licks for the free treats. I was sad to learn that …
Oct 3, 2023: Finished reading: American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin 📚I thought that Oppenheimer was overlong, but now, having read the source …
Sep 6, 2023: Recently finished reading: A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit. 📚 It examines the ways that disasters (like the San Francisco Earthquake, …
Aug 16, 2023: A visit to a (somewhat) hidden library Wasn’t making much progress on personal projects today, so I called an audible and decided to visit a place I’d never seen–the …
Jul 25, 2023: A great free tech learning resource via the BPL: O'Reilly As devoted blog readers will remember, I’m a big fan of libraries in general and my local one (the Boston Public Library) in particular. I …
Jul 8, 2023: Random City Sights Why I can never leave the city, part 853: the joy of running into a random parade on a Saturday morning. This was apparently a Lions Club parade, with …
Jun 4, 2023: Finished reading: The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey 📚This was a fast-moving and vivid trip through an eventful few decades of English history. I …
May 21, 2023: Micro.blog: So far, so good A couple of weeks ago I moved ericmaki.com to micro.blog, and so far I’m impressed by its features and the spirit of its community. I’d …
Apr 15, 2023: BAA 5k 2023
Nov 16, 2022: A look inside the newly-refreshed Boston Athenaeum I visited the Boston Athenaeum yesterday to check out the newly-renovated spaces. They did a beautiful job—the lobby is bright and welcoming, the art …
Oct 29, 2022: I booked it around Boston I love libraries. I got my first library card in 1974 at the tender age of 5 (thank you, Paul Pratt Memorial Library) and have been a frequent library …
Aug 22, 2022: WeWork Locations of Boston: An Impressionistic Review While I love to work remotely, I don’t like working from my apartment. For me, it’s essential to have some separation between work and home, and also …
Aug 21, 2022: Shall we go down?
May 29, 2021: Cygnets
May 29, 2021: Kung-fu turkeys!
Oct 18, 2020: Pumpkin muffin fans