He gives the impression of someone who would like to kid around with reporters for a minute, but knows he's going to be peppered with on-the-record minutiae designed to feed the insatiable maw of blogs and Internet news.
With all the suspects dead and no conclusive evidence, as yet, of any accomplices, investigators have been left to recreate the architecture and orchestration of the plot largely from the recorded minutiae of the hijackers' brief American lives: their cellphone calls, credit card charges, Internet communications and automated teller machine withdrawals.
This is one of the great gifts of baseball: its dutifully recorded minutia makes for diverting stories that can distract us, at least for a moment, from life's crueler realities.
Nobody I know is looking for The Times, or any other news outlet, to record the minutiae of the world.
For most people a pocket diary is the place to record the minutiae and mundanity of life.
There is no clear motive or explanation why my phone company - like yours - is required under law to record the minutiae of my life, and store it for a year.
This absorbing biography manages both to record the minutiae of the artist's life — her garrets, paint wheels, and feral cats — and to explain how her curious, ecstatic nature influenced her work.
Bechdel started recording the minutiae of her own life at the age of ten, when she developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Orwell was fastidious in recording the minutiae of his budget as he tramped north, using trains, buses and his own two legs.
Lee's film is full of music geekery and recording-studio minutiae, and he dedicates a few minutes to the story of how the song's rhythm evolved throughout its writing and recording process.
The records include a vast array of material spanning the administrations of three different governors and seven attorneys general: from state police training manuals, major policy initiatives and disciplinary records to minutiae like radio logs and thousands of pages of individual traffic tickets issued by troopers.
