Davestuff

Thanks to resources like the HCFI Library and Google News and Books, it seems as though I'm able to do original research from source materials on a daily basis. But most of the time, it's only tangential, at best, to the story I'm working on, or proves to be a blind alley of some sort. I don't want to discard all this stuff, nor do I want to print it all out and stick it in a file, or put it on a hard drive somewhere where I'll forget about it. Plus, there's the nagging suspicion that somewhere down the line, I really will need this stuff for a story. The solution is to put it all in some easily-accessible place, with all the supporting documents and a summary of the research. That describes Wikipedia well, and that's what I did yesterday with Xenophon P. Huddy. I've run into Xenophon Huddy's name many times over the years, researching for my weekly legislation story. Starting in 1906, he wrote a legislative affairs column himself, for Horseless Age...

I'm not sure, but the clerk at the convenience store where the robber phoned in his crime may be the stupidest person on earth. And what, the robber couldn't have texted him? TheDay.com - Man Calls In To Rob Convenience Store

I can only hope that someday, Mark Mroz's '72 Polara CHP makes it into print. Cause it's, you know, awesome. I hate shooting things and then having them hang around forever.