JFK vs. PowerPoint
Last month, one of my colleagues at work did a post about bad PowerPoint presentations. In response, another blogger wrote in about a particularly (and intentionally) awful use of PowerPoint, featuring...
View ArticleMy Ambivalence About Bobby Kennedy
I first realized that I didn’t much like Robert F. Kennedy when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate from the state of New York in 1964. There were three overriding factors: 1. I had heard that the...
View ArticleA Male at ‘Menopause’
My wife and I used to go to the movies, go to the theater, attend concerts. The last four years, we’ve done it far less. I have seen far fewer movies, hardly any concerts, and virtually no theatrical...
View ArticleRenumeration
I was a pretty good speller when I was growing up. For some reason, I recall that I got 100 on my fifth grade spelling final. I’m not National Spelling Bee good; of the words offered during the couple...
View ArticleHow to use a microwave
The microwave has been around since 1946 or thereabout. It was huge, physically, not marketwise. Its commercial potential wasn’t realized until 1967 when the Amana microwave was going for $495. Of...
View ArticleHoping to stir it up
I was really taken by this article, Why Doesn’t Anyone Comment on Your Blog? Among other things, it suggested no login; easy to find comment links; no captchas—those annoying spell-out-the-letters...
View ArticleI’m All a-Twitter
There was a snarky little op/ed piece in the TU Thursday called “Twitter dumb, Twitter dee” by John Kelso of the Austin American-Statesman. He bemoaned the fact that “most tweeters are not doing...
View ArticleI think I’m still on vacation
My wife and I went on vacation last week without the daughter – to Saratoga. You mean the Saratoga that’s 33 miles from my house, Saratoga? The one that’s in the same Metropolitan Statistical Area as...
View ArticleA Solution for the Blood Donation Shortage
Should gay men be allowed to donate blood? And, is the ban on using gay men's blood homophobic? After reading lots of material, I believe the answer to both questions is yes.
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