Walking the Lake Conestee leg of the Swamp Rabbit Trail this week, I saw the biggest, strangest caterpillar I’d ever seen. Five inches long and as thick as my thumb. Bright colors in nature sometimes mean poison, so I didn’t touch. Instead, I scooped it up in a large leaf and brought it home to […]
‘Tis said there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip and so it has been with “Bratwurst.” Come the September issue of fête, however, my much misunderstood wiener shall rise triumphant. A month late, an actor short and several degrees of separation removed from its storyboard, but … what was it Calvin Coolidge […]
On August 3, I traded in my $75/month no-data Verizon plan for the unlimited everything plan offered by Republic Wireless, a one-year-old subsidiary of Bandwidth.com headquartered in Cary, NC. Their current business model is one plan, one phone, one price. $19/month. No contract. Yes, the phone (a Motorola Defy XT) is running Android V2.3, not […]
