Spent a few hours yesterday running some errands, including a few stops at thrift shops looking for a typewriter (long story for another time). In the course of entering/exiting and walking through a selection of Columbus’ thrift shops encountered a variety of individuals from cross sections of Columbus I don’t always see. For the most [...]
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January 7th in Ohio doesn’t usually bring with it 50 degree weather – but this year it did and that meant the bike path was full of bikers and walkers, the tennis courts even had people in shorts. We took advantage of it and headed off on a nice long walk with the dogs in [...]
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So it’s a new year and a lot of folks are trying to live up to their resolutions. I’ve never been that into them, maybe its the cliche nature of the whole thing, but this year I’ve come up with a few basic ideas of things I’d like to try and do and hopefully cliche [...]
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So you probably know I like the iPhone, I was one of those fools who paid way too much for the first one and have been hooked since. So like a true addict I was counting down the days to iOs 4.0 that added background processes for apps (I know, I could have been on [...]
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It could be just a coincidence, but I doubt it. Somehow Arnold, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California can control the weather in Columbus. This weekend is the annual Arnold Sports Festival here in Columbus, OH. It began as a body building event but has grown into a huge fitness event that while still [...]
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[Quick background, MLB At Bat is a program in its second year for the iPhone that now exists as a free 'Lite' version and a pay $9.99 full version. The full version that I have allows detailed stats and scores for all games in real time (or close to) and additionally live audio for the [...]
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Host Ira Glass speaks with Harold Wilshinsky about a piece of advice he gave to his daughter and son-in-law over 15 years ago: take your money out of the hands of Bernie Madoff, and diversify. Reluctantly, they listened to Harold, even though his son-in-law’s family was making a fortune investing with Madoff. But as history [...]
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File under random: So last spring I went to see the live via satellite show of This American Life (see earlier post), which I thought was very cool. Anyway, I was somehow fascinated by the way he would adjust all the little knobs on his DJ equipment. Since then everynow and then I grab with [...]
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So I am sitting (when I write, not when it gets uploaded) here halfway between Dallas and San francisco in seat 13F and I thought why not fire off a post. I am on my way to SF for what looks to be a great weekend, visiting great friends in a really great city that [...]
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So we live in an era where I can renew my library books merely with a mouse click (even if they are already overdue – basically stops the bleeding) yet for some reason I still end up with overdue books and massive (by library standards I don’t know) fines. I went out of town not [...]
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