Month: July 2011
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Ain’t young or hip enough for Virgin Mobile
Are you cool enough to own a Virgin Mobile phone? Apparently I am not, but the company is glad to sell me their phones anyhow. Based on my calculations I am at least twice as old as their target demographic: young and hip adults. A lesser known fact about Virgin Mobile is that it targets…
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The Internet is getting too smart
I don’t know if you have had the same experience I have had trolling around the Internet. No matter where I go, the same targeted ads follow me. From the perspective of web advertisers and sellers this is good news. Why serve me useless ads for places like Popeye’s Chicken when instead they can target…
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Real Life 101, Lesson 16: Some random suggestions
This is the sixteenth in an indeterminate series of entries that provides my “real world” lessons to young adults. It is my conviction that these lessons are rarely taught either at home or in the schools. For those who did not get them growing up you can get them from me for free. This is…
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Google’s secret sauce revealed by Google+
It’s no particular secret that I hate Facebook. My loathing of it has not been enough to keep me off it, since I have a couple of friends that I would hardly ever hear from if it were not for Facebook. Surely, I thought, someone could write something better and more intelligent. Google is giving…
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Review: Gladiator (2000)
Has it really been eleven years since the movie Gladiator was in theaters? The movie won an Oscar for Best Picture in 2001, and Russell Crowe’s Best Actor award cemented him as a top tier actor. Gladiator is one of those movies I have been meaning to see because everyone said it was such a…
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If I was the president
Gah! The amount of disinformation going on about the debt ceiling, the budget deficit and the economy continues to astound me. That so much of it is sticking goes to prove that money can buy pretty much anything. The oligarchy is clearly in charge, which is why closing loopholes for people who own private jets…
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Second Viewing: Forbidden Planet (1956)
I know I saw Forbidden Planet many years ago and I vaguely recall it was sort of interesting. There must have been more compelling science fiction film options at the time, because it did not make much of an impression. My wife always admired the film, so when it showed up at my warehouse superstore…
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Review: Next to Normal at the Kennedy Center
There were dueling musicals playing Saturday night at the Kennedy Center. We found ourselves in the Eisenhower Theater watching the rock musical Next to Normal, the story of a woman caught in bipolar disorder. Right next-door in the Opera House was the musical Wicked, which we had caught in Chicago way back in 2005, is…
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