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Monday, April 07, 2014

Rathole mining

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I will admit that, if it had not been for the catchy come-on – rathole mining? what, from a Pink Slip perspective, is there not to like wit...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Baseball: I guess I’m part of the problem, not part of the solution

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On Monday afternoon, I watched the Red Sox opening game, played on the road, against Baltimore. Personally, there’s something just wrong ...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Mary Barra, come on down!

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If there’s been a better glass-ceiling story in the last few years than Mary Barra’s, I don’t know whose it might be. She’s a local Detroi...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

So long, Wichita Lineman. (Landlines are going dodo bird on us.)

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I live in a three-phone household. My prime phone is my cell, which over the past couple of years has replaced my old reliable landline as...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

BYOD. Be careful what you wish for.

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Although we didn’t as yet have a name for it, BYOD was starting to creep into corporate just as I was starting to creeping out. For those ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

There’s a robot with an eye on your job. (Yes, I mean you, knowledge worker.)

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Forget Putin. Forget March Madness. Forget earthquakes and mudslides. Robots seem to be making an awful lot of headlines lately. I mean,...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, and he was wearing a football helmet

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Given that colleges and universities pretty much operate as the minor league for professional football and basketball. Given that big time s...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Stupidity on the Bounty. *Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.)

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I am not now, never have been, and never will be a mom. But if I had been a mom, it would have been back in the Dark Ages, when kids were ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

One more reason to love (ahem) the NFL

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Let me get this straight. The NFL has no problem employing murderers, rapists, dog torturers, drunk drivers, women assaulters, druggies, a...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Youth–and their nonsense apps–must be served. (At least until the infrastructure collapses.)

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A few Sundays back, there was an interesting cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine by a young techie. Hard not to be a bit in...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Better gun safe than gun sorry

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I don’t know a lot of people who keep guns – at least not that I know of. Sure, I do know a few gun owners, but gun ownership is not exactly...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Welcome, sweet springtime, tis thee we adore

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I don’t think it matters where you hang your hat. The weather this winter has been pretty darned awful. Through much of this foul season, ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Ah, Blimps!

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When I was a kid, one of the most thrilling things I experienced was seeing a blimp wafting over the skies of Worcester. Admittedly, my chil...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Fees, Fi, Fo, Fum

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Last week, I flew back from vacationing in Arizona, using some of the frequent flyer miles my husband had so assiduously collected over the ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

And you thought the only thing the Irish invented was the shillelagh…

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Well, it’s no longer St. Patrick’s Day, but nothing wrong with continuing to keep on with the virtual wearing o’ the virtual green. So tod...
Monday, March 17, 2014

St. Patrick’s Day, 2014

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And so it is St. Patrick’s Day, month’s mind for my husband… And so I remain very, very sad. And so I’ll share with you a Celtic song. ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Swag baggery. (Hooray for Hollywood.)

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While I seldom watch more than a few minutes of The Oscars, every couple of years, I am always interested in what’s in the annual swag bag t...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Dancing on the radio

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My mother always used to laugh about Edgar Bergen, who was a ventriloquist on the radio. Of course, he was a comedian, who used his dummie...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wicked Smaht

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Every once in a while, I look at the personal ads in Harvard Magazine , and last weekend was one of those whiles. Some of them seem to be ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Just out walking the dog…

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Every once it a while, there’s a just plain feel-good story, and my current candidate is the one about the California couple who were out wa...
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