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Friday, November 29, 2024

You have to face some hard truths about yourself when you listen to a 28-hour audio biography of Ulysses S. Grant in its entirety

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According to the comedian John Mulaney, "All of our dads are cramming for some World War II quiz show, and I can't wait to watch it...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Our Thanksgiving dinner table looked exactly the same every year in the 1970s and 80s...and the 90s...and the 2000s

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  Full disclosure: I stole the photo above from the folks at Bob Evans, who want you to know they're basically ready to cater your entir...
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Monday, November 25, 2024

I expend inordinate amounts of mental energy making sure all of my devices are sufficiently charged

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We live in a world of wonderfully advanced personal technology, at least compared with the largely analog one in which I grew up. We have mo...
Friday, November 22, 2024

9/11 was the closest thing my generation has experienced to the JFK assassination

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Today marks 61 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. Every year on this day I go back and read old news accou...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

BLOG RERUN: One unfortunate side effect of full-time work is feeling disconnected from the day-to-day reality of your home

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True to form, the AI Blog Post Image Generator created this surrealistic tableau when I prompted it with the phrase "busy household....
Monday, November 18, 2024

The chick magnet that was my 1984 velcro Men at Work wallet

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  My first wallet was very much like the one pictured above: an all-fabric, velcro-closing affair with the logo of the Australian band Men a...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Smaller pets are eternally babies, even when they're getting on in years

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  The feline in the photo above is Ginny, the oldest of our three cats and also  –  by a considerable margin  –  the smallest in stature. Gi...