Am I the only person that gets annoyed by the employees at Walgreens (and I think CVS does it too) shouting “Welcome to Walgreens” at you as you enter the store? I’m not a monster, so if somebody greets me I feel obligated to acknowledge them. And that means I …
If you are younger than me you may have read this in school. I didn’t read it until last night. It’s a slim volume – only 110 pages. But it’s enough. When the author was 15 he was rounded up in Hungary and shipped off to Auschwitz.
These 110 pages are …
I’m not looking to make any major life changes. I mostly bought the book because Fell is entertaining, and since he has been entertaining me for free on his Facebook page for a couple of years, I figured buying his book was the least I could do.
The book is …
We watched the Netflix produced Frye Fest documentary over the weekend. I remember the blow up on the social media when guests started posting pictures of the grounds and accommodations as they arrived. I had zero awareness of the event prior to the social media explosion in 2017 when it …
Back in peak blog we had blog specific search engines, and Google tended to rate blogs very highly. For a few years anything I wrote would be on the first page of Google within hours. I once mentioned Britney Spears in a blog post, which combined with the “Disappointing people …
My recent upgrade from Mint 17.3 to Mint 18.3 killed Google Music Manager. It seems to start up in that it shows as running in System Monitor, but there is no GUI. I tried un-installing and reinstalling and the same thing happened. I tried to downgrade to an …
Inspired by this post from Jason Kenny, whose old site is on the blogroll, I pulled my old blogroll from a 2005 version of the blog and pasted it below. I have no idea how many of the links still work. I definitely see a handful that I still visit …
It’s been 2 months since I let me Amazon Prime membership expire. In case you wondering how it’s impacted my life, it hasn’t. Seriously, I’m shocked at how easy it is to not spend money with Amazon. I haven’t spent a dime there since late November.
Trust. What does that word really mean? We use it all the time, both in a business sense and in a personal sense.
You trust that your boss has your back.
You trust that your spouse would never intentionally hurt you.
Professor Glen Urbanfrom MIT breaks trust out into …
Billy Joel The Definitive Biography started out as an autobiography. Joel killed the project at the last minute, however, he allowed his co-writer to redo the book as a biography. They had so much audio recorded of Billy and everybody in his life that it almost reads like an oral …
