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Thursday, September 08, 2016

A Master of “Science” in Luxury Management? What will they think of next…

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The other evening, the episode of “House Hunters International”, one of my favorite time wasters, was devoted to a rather sweet young fellow...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Tenth Blog-iversary

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Today, Pink Slip is observing it Tenth Anniversary. When I first started out, the content was strictly business. Sort of. I’d written a bus...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

And how was your week? Not as bad as Elon Musk’s, I’m guessing.

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Starting with that wonderful name -  worthy of a Bond villain, or a porn-stache men’s “fragrance” from the 1980’s ( All my men wear Elon Mus...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Labor Day, 2016

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It’s Labor Day and, once again, I’m quasi-taking a day off from my blogging labors. But I’ve written at some length about Labor Day, and wh...
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Friday, September 02, 2016

Nomorobo? Bring it on.

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It was bad enough that 99.99% of my landline calls are either spam or someone looking for a donation to a political campaign. For the last s...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Washout

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I have never been very good at spotting good business ideas, but I do have an okay eye for pegging the bad ones. Thus, I wasn’t surprised...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Boxty Belt

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Fun little memoir piece by Michael Malone in the NY Times the other day on the “Irish Alps,” the Irish-American version of the Borscht Belt...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

“Bypassing the brand system”? It’s just so damned opaque out there.

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The only thing that’s got to be worse than being an adult who has to carry around an EpiPen in case of a food allergy emergency, is having a...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Crime shoppers. (Yet another reason ya gotta love Walmart)

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When I began reading the article on crime at Walmart, the first thing that came to mind was the term ‘going postal.’ I mean, didn’t someone...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Happy 100th, National Park Service

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If not for clicking on yesterday’s Google Doodle – something I rarely do – I never would have known that August 25th marked the 100th annive...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Grave robbing. (Let sleeping dog tags lie.)

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I remember a few years ago, reading – and blogging – about auction houses that subspecialize in Nazi paraphernalia. I can’t remember the det...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

How to stay rich in Europe? Too late for that…

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Like any good red-blooded American with visions of fleeing to Europe, based on an at least remotely possible election outcome, I was intrigu...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Greetings

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I’m a big greeting card person. Christmas. St. Patrick’s Day. Birthdays. Baby. Get Well. Sympathy. Thanksgiving. Easter. Halloween. Valenti...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Retiring Minds Want to Know

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As I drift into my Golden Years, visions of fully and intentionally retiring are starting to dance in my head. Most likely, I will “retire i...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

Division of Labor

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Last week, the fire alarm went off in our building The firefighters came and checked it out, but they can’t turn off the blaring alarm, whi...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Bucks for the Bang

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Two gun-related stories caught my eye when I was blog-idea grazing last weekend. The first was on the nerves of some University of Texas pro...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Jaws of Life

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My Grandmother Rogers died the month before she would have turned 97. Her family, the Trainors, were the most long-lived branch of my family...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Plain brown wrapper

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When I was a kid, if you saw an empty Lucky Strike cigarette pack on the sidewalk, you stepped on it, and hit (not hard, but a hit-hit, not ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

IP Address Nightmare.(Out of your MaxMind)

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MaxMind is a local (Waltham) tech company that provides IP intelligence. Through MaxMind data, which maps an IP address to a true or, failin...