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Monday, August 12, 2013

Inspecting gadgets

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There was an interesting listing on boston.com the other day of ten gadgets you are probably not aware of needing. Generally, I despise the...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Sometimes the headlines deliver, and other times… (Thank goodness for potash.)

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I’ll admit it. The summer blogging doldrums have most definitely set in. Despite a raft of topics in my queue, nothing was calling to me...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Living over the store

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There’s finally some forward movement on the Ghost of Filene’s Past, which has been haunting downtown Boston for a good long time. As my gym...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

How to accessorize your Glock

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So what do you do when you’re a gal who’s all fired up about concealed carry, and you live in the part of the country where it’s usually so...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

At last: research chimps get their golden parachutes

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One of the saddest things I ever saw was a chimp imprisoned – there is no other word for it – by himself, in a cage, at the zoo in York Beac...
Monday, August 05, 2013

There’s no good way to do this, but the Plain Dealer’s method is plainly a bad deal

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Having been on both the giving and receiving end of the lay-off transaction, there is really no good way to do this. Unless someone has an...
Friday, August 02, 2013

The Internet of Scary Things

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I’ve been reading a lot lately about the Internet of Things – the world in which pretty much every last object is connected and can be acces...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Celebrity Love for Sale. (That’s entertainment.)

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I have no idea who Jeremy Piven is, but if I decide to have a party for myself anytime soon, it looks like I can get him to come for $50,000...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Masterpiece Theater of the Absurd

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Last year, there was a majorly major art heist in Rotterdam, with works by Picasso, Money, Matisse, et al., valued in the tens of millions o...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

This is a specimen of my best Palmer handwriting…

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Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. Which means more than the usual number of useless articles to read online. Or which, alternatively, me...
Monday, July 29, 2013

I really wasn’t going to heap on poor Leslie Cohen Berlowitz

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I really felt that I had exhausted my interest in and ability to blog about Bad Business Behavior, Résumé Inflation Division. Didn’t I say e...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

How to lose your job in a fast food outlet

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I logged enough time in the restaurant biz to have witnessed plenty of messin’ with the food, in ways that were sometimes deliberate and som...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Shave and a haircut, two bitcoins

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First off, I will admit that there is a lot that I don’t get about Bitcoin. But I do at least vaguely understand that it’s a virtual currenc...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Volunteers of America, make that Volunteers of Malibu, are Rita Meter-Maiding

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Even without the sterling example of George Zimmerman, I’m a bit hinky about community patrols. I suppose if I lived in a neighborhood where...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Move over, Twinkie Defense

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A few weeks ago, here in Boston, a fellow was arrested for trying to swindle the fund set up for the Marathon bombing victims. He claimed th...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Quelle horreur gastronomique

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I have no idea who runs it now – and I’ve never actually eaten there to begin with – but at one point in time, the restaurant atop Boston’s ...