Friday, August 30, 2013

Bad mood Friday.

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The great drive in the industrial world over the past 100 years has been a drive for consistency. Colt's serial manufacturing, Ford'...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Uncle Slappy gets serious.

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Amid the rain and humidity, Uncle Slappy and Aunt Sylvie arrived last night. They're up for the Jewish holidays, which commence on Wedne...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

I have an Ad Trader.

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I read another one of those articles yesterday--it was burning through various newsfeeds like a California wildfire--about the death of Adve...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

On Bullshit Jobs.

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There’s an essay I happened upon in “The Economist,” that has fairly scared the shit out of me. It’s written by an anthropologist named Dav...
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Topical couplet.

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Miley Cyrus Is like a virus.
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Monday, August 26, 2013

The blues.

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I had an 8AM client call this morning. And, strangely enough, I got on the call a couple of minutes before 8. Which is more than you could...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Back at the Tempus Fugit.

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It's been a while since Whiskey and I went on one of our "night walks" to the Tempus Fugit, a bar that opened nearly 95 years ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Tiny bubbles.

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In my high-tech office, there sits on virtually every desk desk-phones that never ring, where the message light never lights, where the rece...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Politics and advertising.

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Like the return of the locusts, it is once again election season in New York. We are voting for a new mayor in about three weeks and every e...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

My heart. And my head.

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I got some good news yesterday from my cardiologist. My atrial fibrillation, my irregular heartbeat is no longer. By that I mean I'm...