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And Another Thing:
"Le Corbusier and the Last Diplodocus"
Originally Published in
the August 2004
"The Home Monthly"
for Hersam Acorn Press
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And Another Thing:
"My Digital Camera Just Told Me The
Milk Expired"
Originally Published in
the May 2004
"The Home Monthly"
for Hersam Acorn Press
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The Troubled Bruin: Fibber McGee's Homepage
Online Column
June 2004
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My wife, daughter and I live in a condominium
and we are lucky enough to have two decks.
...The entire adventure cost around $170 and
since we don’t spend that much time outside due to the
fear of insect-borne plagues or the risk of skin cancer, I
consider it money well spent.
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I was watching Home And Garden TV the other
night and they had a special presentation of the 2004 International
Builders Show, which was held in Orlando Florida this past
January...
...This is the place your builder goes so that he can talk
you into that new microwave with a built-in toaster (it exists,
really).
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As a Web designer for the last nine years I have been blessed
with the opportunity to watch an industry and technology grow
from hip tech to appliancetude.
Yes I made that up.
Appliancetude is the state in a technology's lifespan when
the public's perception of it makes the leap from mysterious
and slightly dangerous to being a toaster.
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"Wagons Ho!"
My first column for the
Acorn Press about web
surfing in 1996 |
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"Somewhere That's Warm "
Column for the Acorn Press about the ability to do
internet "travel"
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"In Defense of Yank Tanks"
Column for the Acorn Press about online chat |
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I am speaking,
of course, of the Internet and it's myriad of subsections
and components. "Now wait a second", I can hear some of you
saying already, "isn't that just for mindless chat and explicit
sex?"
Yes and no.
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Well it's snowing at three
inches an hour, we're due for between 24 and 36 inches, the
airports are all closed and I want to be somewhere else. It
may seem a small consolation, but fortunately there is web
travel.
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At least that's the way it is supposed to work.
In actuality all three are used for general talk. Discussion
ranges from "where can I find parts for my old Saab" to "not
all American cars weigh 4000 pounds and are covered with chrome,
`Yank Tanks' as it were" (that is my usual topic).
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"c|net"
Column for the Acorn Press about the early days of internet
/television hybrid pioneer C|Net.com |
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"Now We're Cooking With RAM"
Column for the Acorn Press about early online recipe sites
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Once
and (Almost) Future Playshops
Article about the early days for the Wilton Playshop Newsletter |
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The show is hosted by Richard Hart ( formerly the host, still
is in reruns, of The Discovery
Channel's [http://www.discovery.com] Next Step) and Gina
Saint John. Also on board is PC smartguy and guru John Dvorak
who provides entertaining reviews of the latest CD-Roms offering
"Buy It, Try It or Skip It
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There is the Dip
Index [http://www..cs.cmu/~mjw
/recipes/appetizers/dip/index/] with hundreds of recipes for,
you guessed it, dips (not people who ARE dips, but things
to dip other things in at parties and social functions without
being arrested).
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Between the time of inception, August 15th 1937, and the
first show presented in the theatre on Lover's Lane, May 1st
1954 (Charlotte's Review), it seems that various other structures
in and about the town of Wilton were anxiously vying for the
honor of becoming The Wilton Playshop....
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