AppleComputer

Cheryl does an about-face

About 38 hours ago my wife wanted nothing to do with another old computer. In fact, I had to agree to dispose of my vintage, 1994 Macintosh Performa 577, to make room for my prized new addition to our little Mac Museum. About 17 hours ago my wife walked into our family room and noticed the TV was on… on the computer screen. “How did you do that?” she asked. “Elementary, my…
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Going for BrokeImportant Stuff

Another epic struggle against the forces of evil

Health insurance, billing departments, complaint resolution offices, and the automated phone answering system… horsemen of the apocalypse or God’s warning shot across the bow of today’s later day ark of bureaucracy and civilization? All I know is that I don’t want to pay $800 for services that were supposed to be covered by my health insurance provider. See if this sounds…
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AppleComputer

Twentieth Century Mac

My wife thinks I’ve finally lost my mind. My wife’s friend since high school agrees. Me? My heart is pitter-pattering like freshman invited to the senior prom. I got my hands on a piece of Macintosh Lore… a genuine Twentieth Anniversary Mac. To the average layperson the Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) is nothing but an eight-year-old computer. Weighing in with a 250MHz, 603e PPC…
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Reviews

Spanglish

There is no way for me to describe what I thought of this movie without kind of giving it away. So, if you have any intentions of watching it… move along. Scene: a thirty-something couple finishes watching a movie on cable. The wife gets up as the credits roll… the husband, unmoving, stays behind. The husband seems to be in a daze. He finds himself in an emotional wasteland. This is…
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Current Events

Plagiarizing myself

I was writing one of my former coworkers (and fellow sports enthusiast) today… and it struck me that I’ve been doing very little recreational writing lately (all that emailing at work is really sucking the joy out of those finger to key moments). I have therefore decided to share my keen football observations with the brave few who still visit – whoever and where ever you are. On…
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Kitchen Sink

When all else fails, start over

I’m in the midst of an incredibly painfull software upgrade. A month’s worth of contemplation has not eased the process one bit. We’ll be back as soon as I can fetch approximately 1000 entries (by the grace of my callused finger tips) from my backups. (I didn’t have the patience to run this through a spell checker… so you’ll just have to live with 5th grade…
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Wellbeing

Johnny Cash in a Red Sox Tee

For all you kids out there who think smoking is cool, let me tell you something. You can mimick a lifetime’s worth of smokin’ em down to the nubs with a nice little head cold. Hell man, my wife just said I sound just like Johnny Cash; and let me tell you, I feel like him too. Now if I could just mike up my inner ear I could make some nice coin selling The Man’s demo tapes on…
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BethSports

The news from row S

If you walk up the stairs on the third level of the St. Pete Times Forum, you will find two seats right at the top, looking down the stairs from either side of the center handrail, seats 3 and 4, row S. This was where Beth watched her first live hockey game. Her first impression was, “there are a LOT of people here dad.” “Yeah, it’s great, nothing like Rays games, is…
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