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Friday, June 08, 2018

Ancient Chinese secret

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Back in the day, there was a TV ad for Calgon water softener that was set in a Chinese laundry. The customer asks the proprietor what his se...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Robots, robots who need people….

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I’ve been fretting for a good long while about what it is that people are going to do once artificial intelligence and robots replace almost...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

British royal expert outed. It’s good old Tommy from Upstate.

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Even though analysis revealed the disturbing information that my DNA is 12% English – Jaysus, is my grandmother rolling in her grave mutter...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

“Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?”

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On June 5, 1968, I was home from my first year in college, and had just started working for the summer at Big Boy’s Restaurant in Webster Sq...
Monday, June 04, 2018

What, me smartphone dependent?

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Last Thursday, the unthinkable happened. I was separated from my smartphone for 17 hours. Oh, the horror! Oh, the humanity! (Mine.) For yea...
Friday, June 01, 2018

Oh, to be middle-aged again. (Elder hostile much?)

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Today is my half-birthday. Which makes me 68.5. I’m an elder. An older person. A senior. A senior citizen. An old geezer. (Or is it geezere...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018

You like tonic? So don’t I.

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We hear a lot about globalization. Not so much about its precursor, nationalization. No, not nationalization as in nationalization of an ind...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

What, me worry?

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The other day, I got an email from my brother-in-law with this click-bait subject line: In case you don't have enough to worry about... ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Looking forward to all that free time come football season

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of pro sports. I am first and foremost a baseball fan. Most evenings I’ll watch at least an inning or two of ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Memorial Day, 2018.

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Once again, Memorial Day is upon us. Nothing to say that I haven’t said before in my first Memorial Day post, Decoration Day , way back in ...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Goose alert, etc.

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Yesterday was my first day back from a trip to visit friends in Dallas. While in Dallas, I did absolutely nothing of a touristic or cultura...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Caged tiger at the prom? Excellent idea!

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I wasn’t much of a prom goer, but I did go to the Assumption Prep (now defunct Catholic boys school) senior prom with a guy from the ‘hood I...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

And sometimes life is nasty, brutish, and long

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The oldest women on earth has spoken. A bit short of her 129th birthday, Chechnyan Koku Istambulova has plenty to say. And ain’t none of it ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Robots are people, too?

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While we haven’t yet reached the technological singularity (when AI will just start getting smarter and smarter and surpass human intelligen...
Monday, May 21, 2018

The All-American Language Lab

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This map’s been around for a few years, but there’s something pretty fascinating about it, no? It makes sense that, in California, Nevada,...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Where’s the beef? In the carnivore’s freezer.

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It seems like only yesterday that I was putting down my bowl of ice cream to chuckle about the Paleo diet. You remember Paleo? Think only fo...