Monthly Archives: September 2014

The Gift of Concentration

It’s a common shibboleth that multi-tasking is an unpleasant but necessary fact of life in the high-tech 21st century. As with so many hyperbolic statements, the idea is true enough after a fashion but ignores human history and evolution. We … Continue reading

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Courtesy Trumps Twits

The other night I took myself over to a favorite neighborhood restaurant for one of my favorite indulgences: a pizza Margherita with the addition of a crisp and pungent made-in-house bacon. I suppose purists would scoff at putting bacon on … Continue reading

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Oort Cloud

The opening scene of the 1950 backstage movie All About Eve sports one of the most deliciously snide and snooty voice-overs in film history. George Saunders curls his metaphorical lip, raises his metaphorical pinky, and goes at it with supercilious … Continue reading

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Windows 8 Redux

At one point I tried it and dumped it forthwith, almost as though it had hurt me or was threatening to infect me with some nameless and dread disease. Windows 8: the operating system that people love to hate, a … Continue reading

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