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Monday, October 05, 2015

There’s Peeple that’s creeple Then there’s Peeple the peephole people. (I stand with the peepholers.)

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A decade or so back, some enterprising recent Duke grad set up a site called JuicyCampus, on which students – not surprisingly, mostly frat ...
Friday, October 02, 2015

Remind me not to buy any lottery tickets next time I’m in Chicagoland

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I don’t play obsessively, but I do pick up an occasional lottery ticket or two. I may even be a winner who just doesn’t realize it yet. I te...
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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Too. Much. Choice. (Too. Many. Decisions.)

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We’re about half way through my renovation project. I say “we” – perhaps royally – because, any day that I have any involvement in the proje...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Back home again, in Williston, ND

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A few months ago, I watched a POV documentary on PBS – how’s that for a nifty double use of acronyms? if only I could have thought up a thir...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

More from the OED (“It pays to increase your word power.”)

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A few weeks back, I blogged about the choice word Masshole getting the nod from the Oxford English dictionary. Nothing we don’t deserve,of ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Office of the future? I quit!

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Is it just me, but are “things” getting too darned smart, and kind of in a dumb way? As in the “smartest building in the world”. That would ...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Hello, Barbie

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Not that I’m much of a toy shopper – the little kids on my list these days tend to get boring old books – but a Bloomberg article on the hi...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Coal-fired

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I’m old enough to remember coal. I spent  my first seven years living in a flat in my grandmother’s decker. Our heat came from coal. In the ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

From peanut gallery to rogues gallery

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It’s a bad week for corporate malfeasance. Or a good week, depending on which way you look at it. There was the Volkswagen brouhaha (which I...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Way to go, VW. (NOT!)

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If asked to pick an automaker that I actually liked , I probably would go with VW. I’m not much of a car person – and am un-American enough ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

News from Fashion Week

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This Septembe r’s NYFW – that’s New York Fashion Week to you, bub – is now in the rearview mirror. Fortunately, Bloomberg was there to make...
Friday, September 18, 2015

The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handle*

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Well, I’m not exactly suffering the subterranean homesick blues, but I am experiencing the subterraneous reno drive me crazies. The day bega...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Hotel for Sale

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Not that I’m looking to become a hotelier any time soon, but an ad in The Economist for a hotel in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia caught my eye...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Cow. Any questions?

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My husband was a big fan of cartoonist Gary Larson. I was, too, for that matter. A cartoon that we frequently referenced – you had to be the...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Boca Chica vs. SpaceX. (Good luck, Boca Chicans.)

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Boca Chica Village is about as far south as you can get in South Texas. It’s a tiny gulf town, poor and sparsely populated: 26 folks – “main...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

It’s official: Masshole’s word

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It’s official. The Oxford English Dictionary has recently added the zesty neologism “Masshole” to its long and storied list of words. I don’...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Fourteen years ago today

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Fourteen years ago today, I was in Orlando at a tech conference sponsored by Gartner. It was a pay-for-play deal: vendor companies paid to p...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Hats off to Stetson

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I caught an article on Bloomberg yesterday about Stetson hats, and thought about my father. No, he wasn’t a cowboy. Far from it. But he was ...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Call of Jury Duty

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Today I’m on jury duty. At least I am as of this writing (Tuesday afternoon). I may get lucky and not need to go. Or I may spend a swelterin...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Don’t txt what you can speak

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Old-timey Boston political boss Martin Lomasney lived by a code that those involved in sketchy activities would do well to heed: Never write...