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Friday, November 10, 2023

Alexa, I'd like some misinformation on the election

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I don't have Alexa in my home. Or Siri. Or any other virtual assistant. I'm my own virtual assistant. When I want to find something ...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Has your duck gotten its flu shot yet?

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A few weeks ago, I got my jab. Double jab, actually: next round of covid, annual flu. What I did not get was vaccination against avian flu. ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

This is getting ridiculous

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A few years ago, an issue in the Virginia gubernatorial race centered on Critical Race Theory and parents' rights to control what their ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Pets of a different color

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When I think pets, I think dogs.  I also acknowledge that there are plenty of folks who are cat lovers, so, pets also equal cats. Widening t...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Pop-Tart Taste Tester? Who knew?

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It doesn't seem like the type of item my mother would have fallen for. She was a scratch cook and baker, and a big believer in a hearty ...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Doesn't sound all that passive to me

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I live in an old building, built in the early 1860's. My condo is in a tacked on back wing, but it's no youngster. It was constructe...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Something tells me this fellow isn't cut out to be a spy

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A few weeks ago, a tweet from Pete Strzok  came across my Twitter timeline. (Pete is a former FBI agent whose anti-Trump text exchanges with...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Come on and zooma, zooma, zooma zoom

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Remember the truly prehistoric days of conferencing? You sat around the conference table staring at the Polycom SoundStation - which looked ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Have yourself a merry little Samhain

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Well, I'm in Ireland, which is definitely appropriate, since this is where Halloween was invented. Other than knowing that the Irish pre...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Rent a mom??? O tempora, o mores...

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I didn't have kids, and, although I once was one, that was a very, very, very long time ago. And, as I learned in Latin III, which I too...
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Friday, October 27, 2023

Oh, dear. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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When I first read this story, a month or so ago, my first reaction was Dr. Yuck .  Sure, Scott Burke is a retired physician, but who wants ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Fame! I gonna live forever! Baby, remember my name!

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Ask me when the time comes, but I really have no desire to live forever. Sure, I'd like to be around long enough to see how a few things...