Water memory
On more than one occasion I had a plastic bottle (which I had bought originally containing bottled water) that I was refilling at a water fountain, when a passer-by informed me, “You shouldn’t be doing...
View ArticleThe value of things
Recently I watched some episodes of a TV show called “Storage Wars.” The show is about people who bid on the contents of storage units. These room-sized units are being auctioned off because the...
View ArticleLife and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Sometimes another person does something that you’re not happy with. At times you might not even know exactly what they did, but something they did made you unhappy. Maybe you’re thinking, “I would like...
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Technology and style
The slightly less young among us remember how computers have changed over the years. Even if we limit our thoughts to what we now call a “PC” (which used to be called “IBM compatible” or a “PC clone”),...
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Life before Google
At one time the TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” was so popular, it was on TV every night. And it turned out that anyone could play along with the game in real-time on their web site, and we...
View ArticleStructure of books
Can you make a point succinctly? It’s not easy to be precise enough in one’s words to do this. Sometimes when I write something, the first draft sometimes ends up being too long, rambling, and not...
View ArticleThe demise of incandescent light bulbs
Someone phoned me last year to tell me that GE closed its last incandescent bulb factory in the United States. This was a surprise to me. I had dabbled in those new-fangled CFL bulbs that were...
View ArticleIt has been a while
Hi, folks, it’s been a while. Actually, about a year. I have just been cleaning out my RSS reader. I had sorted the various feeds into folders, and there are some feeds in one folder that I actually...
View ArticleEntertainment value of spam
Much spam starts off with some horrible misspelling of a word, so that it won’t be an exact duplicate of every other time they post the same thing. But it does have entertainment value, I think, which...
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The Thick and the Thin
Congratulations! This is the first installment in the exciting series, “The Thick and the Thin,” and You Are There!! So anyway, I was going out to lunch with someone, and I observed a wooden letter “M”...
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