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My continued use of my desk is the bane of Bagheera's existence.
"Here's something random for you," the editor begins.
At this, a smile blushes and blooms across the assistant editor's innocent face. He cannot suppress it. If you want to know why he is smiling, he is smiling because he does not want to laugh. He does not want to laugh because it would be wrong to laugh at his boss. This much is obvious.
He smiles because, in truth, it is quite a common thing for the editor to offer something "random." Does the editor not know this?
The assistant editor nods, anxiously, as if to say, "Yes?"
"If you look at the…
And, if you still feel like reading on this particularly frigid Friday, check out today's You Can Go To Jersey, Or You Can Go To Hell entry.
"You are the greatest."
In a few moments, I'll send the latest batch of Recommended Components blurbs to our copy editor, Richard Lehnert, the man of many words.
Speaking of words, this latest batch of blurbs features 8,085 of them. Words, that is. I always like to do a word-count on a finished RecCom file. In fact, not only do I perform a word-count after completing the entire project, I perform a word-count on each individual entry upon its specific completion. I don't know why. It's as if the number of words has something to do with the quality of the work. I give myself…
"The United States Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) spectrum chart, dated October 2003, depicts the radio frequency spectrum allocations to radio services operated within the United States. This chart graphically partitions the radio frequency spectrum, extending from 9kHz to 300GHz, into over 450 frequency bands, and uses distinct colors to distinguish the allocations for the thirty different radio services."
You can order the poster USGPO or you can download the .pdf file. You probably know this information intellectually, but…
Guitarist Barry Finnerty remembers his bandmate, friend, and rehab mentor.
Using the acoustics of gunfire to calculate the location of snipers. It doesn't work the way you might imagine.
Last week I went to an advance screening at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) of Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, a new film about the short, creative, and ultimately kinda sad life of songwriter/arranger Billy Strayhorn. "Strays" or "Sweet Pea" as his friends knew him was part, some would say most, of the brains behind Duke Ellington's success in the forties and fifties. The film will be shown on PBS around the country in February.
If you haven't read it already David Hajdu’s book on Strays, also called Lush Life after one of his most famous tunes, is the go–to resource for all things…