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If you can’t hear me, why are you shouting? 2008-04-06 20:38:48 Why do people speak louder into their phones when they can’t hear the person on the other line? I do it myself. It’s like wiping your cheek when you see an eyelash on someone else’s face, or hitting the imaginary brakes when you’re in the passenger seat.I can promise you, increasing the volume of your own voice has no affect on theirs.I get it. We can’t live without our cell phones. But it seems to me more often than not, we can’t hear people very well when we’re on them and it’s usually our own fault. We love the convenience, but taking a call outside, in the car, in a store, in a bar, in a restaurant (really? do you have to?), is more trouble than its worth due to the competing noise around us. And we end up annoying everyone.What’s even more frustrating is when you’r
Wireless – The Next Big Tobacco 2008-04-15 11:44:45 A totally paranoid conspiracy theory, or the truth we already know and simply choose to suppress back into that little space deep within our psyches where we tell ourselves the government would never let us hurt ourselves, especially in the name of convenience or big business?I’m not one to lie so my guess is our cool, techy, gadget-filled, wireless world of constant communication is slowly killing us, and not just from the information overload. I truly believe just like big tobacco buried the truth decades ago about the addictive/harmful qualities of nicotine and tobacco, and what we all told ourselves to rationalize our own addictions, the same is happening again, only this time it’s companies like Apple, Verizon, AT&T, MCI, Comcast, Microsoft, Netgear, and Cisco at the helm.I’ Read more:Wireless
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Accidental Disclosure 2008-04-29 18:26:39 After coming very close today to plowing into a jackass that pulled out in front of me way too late, while I was foolishly zooming down the right-turn only lane assuming everyone going straight or left would continue to do so, I decided that (a) they’re not accidents, they’re mistakes and (b) we should start including the driver’s name(s) and hometowns in the morning traffic reports when these mistakes happen. Perhaps removing the anonymity people enjoy behind the wheel will make them think twice before making a move they fully know is unreasonable and so often prickish.Today’s delay is courtesy of Tony le Tigre of the 700 block of Narcissist Row in Westchester Hills. Tony decided he needed to be in the right lane when it was already occupied and didn’t feel like waiting his turn Read more:Accidental
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The Girl with the Butterfly Wings 2008-05-14 19:22:48 Last week while driving I saw the cutest thing I’ve seen in a really long time. A little girl was running up a grassy hill with a pair of huge butterfly wings flapping on her back. And her older brother was running with her. They were both smiling. And that image hit me with so many thoughts at once I had to write them down.She put something on that made her happy, and wasn’t worried about wha Read more:Butterfly
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Graduation Day Advice 2008-06-06 22:45:34 My daughter graduated from high school today. I know she's on cloud nine, and it's deservedly so. It was an incredibly satisfying afternoon for me as well for all the reasons you can imagine, and a few others that shall remain where they belong, private and in my own heart.But I am inspired to share for any graduate who cares to listen from the vault of "I actually know now what I didn't know then
Good Early Morning to You Today, America! 2008-06-22 17:00:35 I am not a morning person, unless it’s marking the end of my day. I like to ease into my morning routine and slowly accept that I eventually have to head into work. I already get plenty of stress from my caffeine-induced morning commute. So today’s question: when watching any of the national morning news programs (GMA, The Early
Show, or Today
), what’s up with the 25-second interviews?You ca Read more:America
, Morning
My Big Fat Greek Vacation 2008-07-06 21:21:45 Since I can’t afford a real vacation this year, I thought I’d reminisce about last year’s instead. The trip was two weeks long, as is this blog, so I encourage you to grab a coffee, sit back, and read the sections over multiple visits.My yia-yia (grandmother) Sophie was from the Greek
island of Naxos (pronounced like the cheese Doritos® made famous, but with an x). The village is Apiranthos Read more:Vacation
Diablo III is coming! I have reached Nerdvana. 2008-06-28 10:59:26 If I could be a giddy 12-year-old school boy for just a moment, the computer game Diablo III has just been announced by Blizzard and I just about peed myself. I hit a note that could break a dual-pane E4 Andersen replacement window.You can read all the game details here: of my adult friends will say, "And I care why?" You don't. Unless you also played this PC-based action RPG (role-playing game) a
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