Goodnight, sweet Thinkpad
After so many years of faithful service, my laptop screen just flickered and died. After putting it to sleep and waking it up again, the screen was working intermittently, and it might be that I could force some more service from it; but with this added to the machine’s already-substantial list of eccentricities, it appears [...]
Send me on my way
Bags are packed. Camera batteries charged. Stomach: cooperative enough to proceed. It’s time for Chicago, friends. Have a dazzling New Year.
MOVIE REVIEW – The Informant!
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Not Overdrawn Yet
New Year’s Resolutions are like a karmic credit card binge. You make something around 5 pledges to yourself, any one of which would take a major investment of personal will. I mean that you would have to actually liquidate will from somewhere else in your life just to get there. Sure you MIGHT be able [...]