| Funny, I had the same
thought yesterday in response to a note from this
new reader, Benedikt Bergweiler:
I couldn’t believe my eyes, as I read an
e-mail from a page visitor of my Web site, http://www.d-troit.de/,
stating that I was mentioned in your “Editor’s
choice” column! Thank you so very much for doing
this! Since then, I receive even more of response
to my essay, each congratulating me for the work.
Maybe you could write me, how you came across my
Web site.
As I told Benedikt, if I had the money, I would
bring him over here myself. Maybe we should take
up a collection and get him over here after the
snow stops falling, the temperature rises and we
aren’t in the throes of seasonal affective
disorder.
Oh, to answer the question posed by Benedikt
and other readers, credit for finding this site
goes to Crain’s copy editor Vic Doucette.
And it turns out this column has now gone
international, with a link on Benedikt’s site.
If you have a couple of minutes, you should check
out this cool site that lets you view the
Milky Way at 10 million light years from Earth,
then move toward the Earth until you reach an oak
tree outside the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla. It then moves from
the actual size of a leaf on the tree and into
“the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.”
Presidential campaign news? Nahhhhh. Why spoil
a good day?
So, do you Google before the first date?
A New York woman did and discovered
that her suitor was wanted in Cincinnati on
charges that he bilked the city out of $184,000.
Boy, that was close. This guy might have stuck her
with the check. So is the new millennium’s version
of “What’s your sign?” “What are your key words?”
Like many of you, I’ve spent a good deal of
time after work this week shoveling snow,
punctuated by an extended spate of ice removal
that left me with the vague sensation I was about
to pierce the aquifer. Clearly, this is rigorous
and potentially dangerous work. Just how dangerous
becomes more apparent when you read this
story and click on the accompanying video of
a man who, while shoveling snow, was buried by
two snow plows. So remember, precious readers
of mine, better not drift off, lest ye be drifted
on.
ballen@crain.com
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