April 2009

Connectivity: Is Twitter a sign of poverty?

April 19, 2009

Have you read Virginia Heffernan’s article, “Let Them Eat Tweets“? In a flight of metaphoric ecstasy, she suggests that a craving for virtual connections reflects an individual’s real-life social poverty (citing Bruce Sterling’s remarks at a South by Southwest technology conference). People who have real wealth, whether of soul or of lucre, feel no great [...]

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Best month on budget so far!

April 18, 2009

Well, here’s a nice surprise: As this month’s budget cycle draws to a close, I’m $47 to the good in spite of having diddled away $275 on a swell leather purse. With five more days to go, all the food the dog and I need is in the house, and I shouldn’t need to buy [...]

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What d’you want to hear on NPR?

April 17, 2009

For several months, I’ve been participating in a series of National Public Radio surveys, which are always kinda fun and make me feel like I have some tiny voice in…somethingorother. Today’s survey asks what kind of economic news we’re hearing and what kind we want to hear. At one point, it inquires what proportion of [...]

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Potatoes ‘n’ cheese

April 17, 2009

Now that we’re back in business here, I’d like to share a dish I invented a few days ago. Backstory: as much as I enjoy scalloped potatoes, they seem a little watery with all that milk and stuff squishing around. It occurred to me that you ought to be able to cook potatoes much the [...]

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Yay! Cox rocks!

April 17, 2009

What an amazing difference between Qwest’s customer service and Cox’s! Yesterday the DSL modem went down. Too busy in the morning to take on a punch-a-button labyrinth, I ran off to campus, where I learned the wonderful RA who recently moved into our neighborhood also had a lame connection. We assumed Cox was having an [...]

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Funnier and funnier!

April 17, 2009

Remember we were chatting about the Great Desert University’s having invited the President of the United States to give this spring’s commencement address but announcing he hasn’t accomplished enough to deserve an honorary degree? Well, in response to the ensuing hoots of scornful laughter, that august institution announced that it would instead name a scholarship [...]

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