From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Stop and Shop, tear down this wall!

July 9, 2008

Every one of these automated checkout machines should be torn down. With great fanfare. Have a parade. Throw out sweets to the youngsters. Let the adults beat them with their shoes. Just like the toppled statue of Saddam. Or, you could just make them work. Not sort of. Not mostly. All the time. I have […]

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Maybe I didn’t ask the question well

July 8, 2008

I had a great day with my kids. We went to the Liberty Science Center which is a really nice museum in Jersey City. I get in for free and get free IMAX movies – a very nice corporate benefit. We then went out for dinner. During dinner, I asked the kids what their objective […]

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Are the Danes really that happy?

July 5, 2008

Reuters is reporting that Denmark is the world’s happiest country. At least that’s according to the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR). [Click to read the article I just read and a press release from the institute.] The ISR makes the point that happiness is increasing which is probably a less sexy headline […]

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A slice of heaven

July 4, 2008

One of my favorite pleasures is to lie out on my deck with a nice cigar, a good scotch and something intelligent to read – with no wife or kids around to make noise and ruin it. I just spent an hour lying out on my deck enjoying a nice breeze, smelling the fragrant applewood […]

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An ontological problem

July 3, 2008

I was having a very interesting discussion a few nights ago. Somebody asked the question “what would you do differently if you didn’t care what people thought of you?” In one way, this is a silly question. Because the ability of a person to answer it completely may presuppose that they already don’t care what […]

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A poem in honor of mothers

July 1, 2008

I write poetry fairly often. I have no idea if anyone else would think it’s good but I don’t really care much. I mostly write it for myself as a means of catharsis. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s usually quite personal and I’m not comfortable sharing it with the world. But a few […]

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Outlook: A serial killer of time

July 1, 2008

Outlook is a mass murderer. It kills people in increments of anywhere from 1 to 29 minutes. When you click on the Outlook calendar to setup an appointment or meeting, the default is a 30 minute meeting. And the calendar is setup in half hour increments. So what do people do? They create meetings that […]

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Dear customer: #$%@ you!

July 1, 2008

I really like eBags. I like the website – it’s my favorite shopping site. And I really love their house brand. The products are terrific. But they’ve now ticked me off. I’ve recently ordered a few items from them. And the last two orders were messed up. With the same problem. Both times, their website […]

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I think my GPS is stupid

July 1, 2008

I’ve got a lower end Garmin Nuvi. I love having a GPS. It makes me feel all-powerful. Oh man. I just revealed my innermost weirdness to all 3 people who read this blog. Anyway, I think my GPS is stupid. My GPS has a great feature. It predicts what time I will arrive at my […]

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