Monthly Archives: January 2005

Your cassette player’s gone the way of the dodo

Posted on 1/28/2005 by Andrew

(dons old geezer hat) Back in the late 80’s, my dad and I came across this kiosk at the local Coconuts record store (which I don’t think exists any­more) that made mix tapes for you. It was called “Per­son­ics” and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Hibernating time

Posted on 1/26/2005 by Andrew

To quote (prob­a­bly incor­rectly) Lore­lai from last night’s episode of Gilmore Girls, “It’s over between snow and me!” Not that we’ve had such a won­der­ful rela­tion­ship to start with, but I’ve just become weary of its con­stant pres­ence around here the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Tell me where it hurts…

Posted on 1/19/2005 by Andrew

I’ve come to the con­clu­sion that pro­vid­ing tech sup­port via phone or email is a lot like being a med­ical pro­fes­sional. The customer/patient describes their symp­toms, and we diag­nose accord­ingly. Which is why it always strikes me as funny that … Con­tinue read­ing →

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I guess I wasn’t made for these times

Posted on 1/13/2005 by Andrew

View on deck 11–4–04 …“these times” being the cold and snowy expanses of a Maine win­ter. So, instead, I’ll look through the pic­tures of our Bahamas/Florida vaca­tion, lis­ten to Fer­nando Ortega sing about the slow fade of sum­mer in his … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Gallery of “Misused” Quotation Marks

Posted on 1/10/2005 by Andrew

I’m not sure how I hap­pened upon this, but it’s “bril­liant.” Gallery of “Mis­used” Quo­ta­tion Marks Now, if only they’d devote a sec­tion to the bizarre use of quo­ta­tions in local busi­ness print ad cam­paigns. Every time I see some­thing like … Con­tinue read­ing →

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