Tomorrow my law firm will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP began on March 1, 1909. For 100 years it has had the same name (well, except for the “LLP” part), has been based at the same location at 52 East Gay Street in Columbus, Ohio, and has continuously provided its [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Happy Birthday, VSSP!
Posted in Columbus, Reflections, Work, tagged Columbus, Work on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Italian Journal, Day 2
Posted in Family, Travel, weather, World, tagged Family, Italian Journal, Italy, Rome, Travel, Vatican, weather, World on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June 10, 2003: We got up at about 9 a.m. (which is really sleeping in for me) and after our gratis continental breakfast we hopped onto the Metro and headed toward the Vatican. The Metro is somewhat mystifying — for some reason you can’t get change for your fare money from the machines — and [...]
Italian Journal, Day 1
Posted in Family, Reflections, Travel, World, tagged Family, Italian Journal, Italy, Rome, World on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has now been almost six years since our trip to Italy. I kept a short journal during that trip, which has never been transcribed. What better place to transcribe it than in our family blog? So, over the next few weeks, I will transcribe the journal with appropriate pictures from the trip. June 9, [...]
Sunny And Warm
Posted in Family, Travel, weather, tagged Family, Hawaii, Travel on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On this gray Friday morning, when the weather is supposed to turn cold again and rain splatters against the window, I thought we could all use a beach photo to lift our spirits. This is a picture of Richard from our trip to Hawaii during his senior year at CA.
Sledgehammer
Posted in Music, Music videos, tagged Music, Music videos, Peter Gabriel, Sledgehammer on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having talked about videos that suck, we need to talk about videos that are great. I admit, my knowledge of videos is pretty much limited to the 1980s — which is when MTV used to actually play videos, instead of broadcasting lame reality shows. This is my all-time favorite, and my favorite part of it [...]
Family Matters
Posted in Family, tagged Family on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In their house on Chamberlain Road, Gramma and Grampa Neal had a wall of black and white photos. Many of the photos were of long-dead relatives. Gramma particularly liked one picture, of a man sitting cross-legged at a desk, deep in thought, his chin cradled in his hand, as he read something on his lap. [...]
Fixed Expressions
Posted in TV, tagged TV, Whose Line Is It Anyway? on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? was a consistently funny show — at least, it appealed to my sophomoric sense of humor. This clip always cracks me up.
In Response To Richard’s Link . . . .
Posted in TV, tagged Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Star Trek, TV on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You can make a lot of arguments about James Tiberius Kirk. You can point out that he put on a few pounds over the years. You can contend that no rational Captain of a Starship would routinely beam down to an unknown planet with the initial exploring party, equipped only with a phaser and tricorder [...]
Lunatic Fringe
Posted in Music, Music videos, tagged Lunatic Fringe, Music, Music videos on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Russell’s post made me think of this song, so I thought I would post it. This song is a terrific song — in fact, you could argue that it is one of those songs that helps to change the direction of popular music, by being so different from the run-of-the-mill songs being made at the [...]
Bomb in Cairo
Posted in Reflections, Travel, World, tagged Egypt, Travel, World on February 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/travel/24cairo.html?8dpc The first picture, from the New York Times, shows the recent bombing of Hussein Square in Cairo. The second picture is one I took on our trip to Egypt. The building behind the guards in the NYT photo is the same as the building in my picture.
Woodburners and Vacuforms
Posted in Growing Up, tagged Growing Up, Humor, toys, vacuforms, woodburners on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toys may be more violent than they used to be — I’m not sure it’s a good idea, for example, to expose children in their “formative years” to the mindless violence of video games like Grand Theft Auto — but I think they are much safer than they used to be. A kid playing a [...]
Stock Market Haiku
Posted in Reflections, The Economy, tagged economy, haiku, Poetry, retirement, stock market on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it — it is just depressing to see what is happening with the stock market every day. Rather than obsess about it, it is better to just accept it and deal with it. I’ve decided that writing a haiku would be therapeutic: 401(k) down Retirement far away Pay no attention
Countdown To Freeport
Posted in Travel, tagged Bahamas, beaches, Travel on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are less than a month away from a much-anticipated visit with our old (in the sense of long-time, of course) friends Chuck and Laura Pisciotta at their excellent vacation getaway home on the outskirts of Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. While there we will sleep in, drink Kalik beer, have great conversations on their [...]
The Forever War
Posted in Books, College, tagged Books, College, Science Fiction, The Forever War, The Ohio State University on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thirty years ago, during the winter quarter of 1979, I took one of the best classes I ever took at Ohio State, which introduced me to my all-time favorite book. The class was called Science Fiction as Literature (or something with a similar, college curriculum-sounding name) and the book was The Forever War, by Joe [...]
… Not Much To Say On A Sunday Afternoon …
Posted in Reflections, The Economy, tagged economy on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s a lazy Sunday afternoon and Dad is pestering me to write a blog entry. I’ve told him I’m not nearly as fluid as he when it comes to this, but I’ll just check in with a quick entry. Last night we had dinner with our good friends Paul and Laura Williams, and today [...]
