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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dinner in the Sky's heart-attack-on-a-plate

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Yesterday, I posted about blimps, and how magical I find the idea of floating around in one. Today, well, there's a slightly different...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Blimp

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Despite my fear of heights, I have no fear of flying, and would like nothing more than to hitch a ride someday on a blimp/airship/ dirigible...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

This takes brass. (How low can you go?)

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A few years ago someone stripped some brass/bronze markers off a wall near the Esplanade on Boston's Charles River. I can't recall w...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Fish-based pedicure - is this a new outsourcing paradigm?

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The other day, I saw a somewhat disturbing article online about a spa in Virginia that's offering "fish pedicure": Rather ...
Friday, July 25, 2008

1Sky (or, how Kelsey and Leah are spending their summer vacation)

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Like a lot of Americans, I worry about global warming, with the worry running the gamut from "it's really hot and humid today, I wo...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Rock-a-bye reborn baby

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Last week, my sister Trish (along with my sister Kathleen, and excellent source of the weird and the creepy) sent me a link to an article on...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

What did you do in the war, KBR?

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The swell folks at KBR - primo outsourcers in the war in Iraq - are in the news yet again. According to an article in last week's NY T...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Let Sleeping War of 1812 Vets Lie

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New England is dotted with odd little side-of-the-road cemeteries and small middle-of-nowhere family burial plots. One such Vermont burial...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Oh, my aching back

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Well, I wasn't going to write about this one, but - as my friend Valerie pointed out - it was just too good to be true, so here goes. ...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Ave atque Vale

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I saw a brief article in a recent Economist that said that college yearbooks are going the way of the raccoon coat and telephone-booth stuf...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Oh, You Shouldn't Have

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Once you reach a certain point in your life, most of us become something less of a consumer. Marketers know that: thus when you hit the big ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Frumps and grinds

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The other day, while I was walking through Boston's financial district during the evening rush hour, I saw a woman wearing an outfit tha...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

America's Pastime? Honk if you love Honkbal!

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Well, tonight they'll be playing the All Star Game, and lest you think this is a meaningless exercise, the outcome determines whether t...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Let us now praise Kennedy Brothers Physical Therapists

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Last October, I broke my arm - fractured in three places, just below my shoulder. They don't do much for this type of break: they tell...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Here Comes Santa Clauses....

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It may come as a surprise to those who never reads it, but there's almost always something fun in the Wall Street Journal , and yesterda...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Things I Buy Too Many Of

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The other day, when I went into CVS to buy yet another pocket comb, I had to ask myself: where have the other dozen or so pocket combs I bou...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

What Was Sam Israel Doing in Southwick?

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It's really not surprising that runaway hedge fund trader Sam Israel decided that life on the lam is no lambchop. I mean, it's one t...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Layoffs Hit Foxwoods

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Apparently, even those with the gambling jones are impacted by the recession and/or the high price of gasoline. What else is there to make...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

Embezzled Heaven: Raffaello Follieri's Folly

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When I was in grammar school and high school, we had the occasional "treat" of watching a movie. Sometimes we paid for the pleasur...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Happy Fourth of July

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Here's what I had to say last year about The Glorious 4th. http://pinkslipblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/glorious-4th.html It still holds...