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Friday, October 06, 2017

What would you order to eat on YOUR private jet?

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All the focus on our high-flying government officials buzzing around in private planes got someone at the Boston Globe wondering about what...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Tragedy of the commons, or just plain laziness?

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Recently, my brother-in-law sent me an article on eating donuts and drinking coffee at faculty meetings. Since the article was written by a ...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Sock it to me?

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One of the business buzzwords that I’m most passionate about, in terms of despising, is the word “passion.” But passion is rapidly being rep...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Intellectual property just ain’t what it used to be

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Well, last January, the big “intellectual” property story was about real or was it fake or was it real fake mermaid tails . But that was the...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Pie in the sky? Nah. Pie in Kelley Square in Worcester

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My mother was a baker, a scratch baker. My father had a sweet tooth – as did the majority of this children (3 or 4 out of 5 ain’t bad), so ...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

November 1969. All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

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There was no online. I suppose we saw flyers. Or read about it in The Old Mole (a short-lived Cambridge leftie newspaper of the time.) Or h...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Food security, glorious food security

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Arguably, two of the ugliest statues in Boston are the ones that make up the Irish Famine Monument. It’s a “compare and contrast” installati...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Tap on tap at Gillette Stadium?

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The big football news this past weekend was, of course, the Divider in Chief doing one of the things he does best (i.e., dividing), and on h...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

“What the Fluff?” (All hail, Archibald Query!)

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Somehow along the way, I missed the fact that this is the centennial year for a local delicacy. Yes, Marshmallow Fluff is celebrating it’s...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Oh, those darned bicyclists

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With all the truly dreadful and scary news out there, it’s something of a relief to read about something a tad bit daffy. Thus, I did so enj...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Fire next time…

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I don’t know about you, but if I had 20,000 €500 bills, I wouldn’t be cutting them into tiny little strips and flushing them down the toilet...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Talk about off the rack…

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When it comes to shopping for clothing, I’m pretty much a half-and-halfer. I order a lot of stuff online – Tribal pants are Tribal pants, Ya...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Mamma Mia! ABBA’s touring as holograms….

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God knows, the members of ABBA aren’t getting any younger. Three of them (yes, I had to look it up) are in their 70’s , and the “kid” of the...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Kink Room? Oh, Grow the F Up

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It seems as if not a week goes by without some new story about sexism in the tech industry – startups, around-for-a-whilers, VC’s – you name...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Hempfest by any other name

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As I write this, it is 8 p.m. on Sunday. Peace is upon the land. Hempfest has ended. The vendor stalls have been dismantled, the lousy bands...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

Not that I was going to stay at a Motel 6 anyway…

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You’re a Hispanic family. You’re traveling to Phoenix – maybe for a wedding, or a quinceañera. You don’t have a ton of money, but Motel 6’s ...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Two ex-Googlers walked into a bar…

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Us Baby Boomers get plenty of opprobrium heaped upon our graying heads. The generation most-likely-to-be-vilified gets credit for nothing, b...