Isn’t the Light OK?

(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 had a strange vari­ety of new music and old songs no one in […]

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 past few weeks. The “white won­der­land” is mak­ing me want to retreat even fur­ther into my […]

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 peo­ple expect to email us with a generic ques­tion like “Why can’t I get into […]

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 “Cal­i­for­nia Town,” and wait for hiber­na­tion time to end.

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 “Best mulch for the money!”, “A fam­ily favorite since 1965″ or “We deliver” in quotes […]