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Monday, October 16, 2023

Bac chosach on the mend

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I spend a lot of time on my feet.  I'm a walker, and for the last couple of years, week in week out, I've averaged seven miles a day...
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Friday, October 13, 2023

Boston Red Sox had a farm. EE-I-EE-I-O.

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It's been there for a while. I've seen it plenty of times. But I haven't really thought much about the farm at Fenway Park until...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Whatever happened to "Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us'

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I do not like bus travel. Whether local or short haul or long haul. I do not like buses. Never have, never will. I grew up in a city that di...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Greetings from Washington, DC

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I know Boston. I know NYC. I know Chicago. I know San Francisco (or used to.) I don't know Washington, DC. But I'm a city lover from...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Want to be a cop? I heard Coffee City, Texas, has a few openings.

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I recently came across the craziest of cray stories - crazy even by Texas standards.  First off, there's the name. Coffee City.  City?  ...
Monday, October 09, 2023

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day

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When I was a kid, I loved Columbus Day.  A month-and-change into the school year, it was a nice break.  It didn't give us a three-day we...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Jeepers, Creepers

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A short while ago, I wrote about an AI professional portrait generated that turned the brown eyes of an Asian-American woman blue, presumabl...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Are the peasants rally that revolting? Just ask Tim Gurner.

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When I worked as Durgin-Park waitress, way, way, way, back in the day, there was a crudely framed sign hanging in the waitress break room. T...
Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Fred Dibnah: They don't make 'em like they used to

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Ever heard of the late Fred Dibnah, MBE?  Me neither. But what an interesting character Fred was. I came across Fred in early September, whe...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Boo, Booz Allen! Yay, Sarah Feinberg!

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Booz Allen is one of those big-name, smarty-pants, fancy-arse consulting firms. Right up there with McKinsey, Bain, and the Boston Consultin...
Monday, October 02, 2023

RIP Tim Wakefield

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The post below was written on Saturday. On Sunday, while heading back into Boston from a trip to Brookfield Orchard with my sister Trish and...