Make it simple: How a differential gear works
Before watching this video, I really couldn’t have told you what a differential gear was. I certainly couldn’t have explained how one works. But this clever video starts with an example that is easy for anyone to understand and slowly builds one example on the next until finally you truly get how the complicated gear […]
Remembering Geraldine Ferraro’s Cherry Street campaign
I spent a few minutes reading the long list of Geraldine Ferraro‘s accomplishments after hearing of her death today and realized that I barely knew her. Many people probably didn’t and that’s understandable. But for many years I felt a special connection to Ferraro and Walter Mondale, the man who picked her to be the […]
TED: Light creates ambiance, feel of place at High Museum
I love TED Talks and I love architecture. So I was immediately intrigued by this discussion from Rogier Van Der Heide. I’m glad I watched because Renzo Piano’s design at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is featured prominently. While I’ve read a lot about Piano’s design, this is the first time I’ve seen a behind-the-scenes […]
Hiking the Appalachian Trail, the easy way
Twelve years ago I bought a pair of hiking boots, a backpack and borrowed some hiking gear for a grand adventure along the Appalachian Trail. My friend, Jeb, and I were going to hike about 40 miles on the trail in something like four days. We didn’t get that far. We didn’t get close. I […]
Ready for wedding season
I received Jeb and Sarah’s “save the date” card in the mail yesterday. I suppose that’s the official start of the wedding season for 2011. While I’m looking forward to being Jeb’s best man in October, I’m hopeful the wedding couple doesn’t coordinate anything like this: [vimeo clip_id=”1531870″ width=”600″ height=”425″] Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music […]
Stainless Steel Sharpie
This amazing Stainless Steel Sharpie has found its way into my top desk drawer. This is the newest addition to Sharpie’s line of permanent markers. And why shouldn’t the pen be as permanent as the ink? The Stainless Steel Sharpie has a nice heft to it, writes well and looks like I’m serious about making […]
Most Improved
I won a Mr. Bill bobble-head doll at Jackson Spalding’s monthly staff meeting yesterday. Why did I win it? For being the Most Improved Biller for 2010. The wobbler is an award for doing such a poor job filing my invoices and activity reports on time in 2009 but meeting the minimal standards this year. […]
Mr. Long goes to Washington
Words cannot describe how honored and humbled I am to have dined with Rep. John Lewis and tour his offices in Washington, D.C. yesterday. As I described earlier this week, I was invited — on what may have been a whim — by Rep. Lewis to visit him in D.C. I wasn’t certain at the […]
Heading to DC
Image via Wikipedia I’m heading to Washington, D.C. today for a quick trip that was planned around a single lunch. I’ve been invited to dine with Rep. John Lewis in the Congressional dining room. I met Rep. Lewis at a Democratic fundraiser just before the November election. After saying how I honored I was to […]
Zero, zero, 100
The image below is the score card awarded by the Human Rights Campaign to my elected Federal officials. It’s also an example of what’s wrong with politics today: extreme polarization. I find it difficult to believe that Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss can’t find a single issue to support regarding the civil rights of […]