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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

I know it’s not official, but the world really IS coming to an end

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I used to think that Toddlers and Tiaras was all the evidence I needed that the world has gone mad, stark raving mad. How else to account f...
Monday, March 04, 2013

Fung Wah, wah, wah

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If you live in Boston or NYC, and ever walk through Chinatown, you have probably seen long lines of travelers waiting in line to get on the ...
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Friday, March 01, 2013

Yahoo! We can work from home. Oh, wait a minute…

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I’m actually a big believer in face time. I think that important information passes, networks get strengthened, and you really do get to kno...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fair Fight? Not really.

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It may come as a surprise to my readers, but I just don’t hunt. It may come as a surprise to my readers, but I don’t have much of a proble...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The unhappiest of jobs

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As a list junky, I am always delighted to see a list – especially when you don’t have to click through a slide show to get at the info. So I...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Taking a bath in a trailer, oh by gum by gee…

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Oh, come on. Who other than the snobbiest of snobs hasn’t at least experienced a nano-second or two during which they wish that they could j...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Remind me never to stay in a $65 a night hotel on Skid Row

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Occasionally,  you get to look back on some of the sketchier decisions you’ve made and let yourself give out with a major ‘phew’. For me, on...
Friday, February 22, 2013

The Apocalypse Now Trade Show

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We caught a bit of Doomsday Preppers the other night. Unlike most of the folks who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars stockpiling ass...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Hippity, hoppity, Triple A is on its way

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One thing about not having a car, I never have to leave a car in an airport parking lot. One thing about not living in Colorado, I never h...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Child’s Play. (My take on re-enactment.)

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I am just finishing up the wildly entertaining book Man of War , in which writer Charlie Schroeder recounts his slog  through a year of wee...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Hospitaliano? Sounds kind of food-poisony to me.

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With absolutely nothing, nada, zip, rien, zero better to do with my time, I actually let myself read an article in Business Week on the Oli...
Monday, February 18, 2013

President’s Day 2013

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This is one of those quirky holidays that everyone doesn’t have off – but everyone should have off. Okay. It doesn’t rise to quite the l...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Near miss: if you’re reading this after 2:24 p.m. Eastern, the asteroid spared us

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Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah. It’s 2012 DA14, and asteroid that’s passing “perilously close” to the earth. Of c...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Leftover electronics? What an eWaste.

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An old Blackberry. An antique Palm Pilot. A couple of routers. Four old laptops –  Dell, HP, Sony Viao, Sony Viao. There may be an old deskt...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Carbon Copy

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I wonder what – if anything – the “young folks” think that cc: means when they copy someone on an e-mail. Wait – let me correct that. “Young...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Thank you, Matthew and Bridget Trainor. Thank you, John Rogers. Thank you, Margaret Joyce. You spared us the Magdalen Laundries.

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As I have often noted when writing about Ireland, my grandmother Mary Trainor Rogers would frequently say that, “If Ireland were so great, w...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Year of the Snake. (Hiss….)

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While Boston was dealing with the before, during, and after-effects of NEMO, The Great Blizzard of 2013, the Chinese were busily fire-cracke...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Blizzard! (Where were you during February of 1978?)

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Today, if all goes, well, well (?) – at least from the perspective of the local weather-folk – we’re in for a big, honking blizzard, which i...
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