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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Lives of the dead
A couple weekends ago I visited the graves of relatives and ancestors on my father’s side at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. All of them died before I was born, but my Grandma Searls and her sisters often visited there, and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health, history, Life, Past, Photography, Places
Tagged Bronx, cemeteries, cemetery, Englert, family, Fehn, graves, love, Rung, Searls, Trainor, Woodlawn Cemetery
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Cavalcade of Tabs
Playing with One-Tab, which works on Chrome and Firefox. Sorting them into just two sets, which may overlap: The World ISIS Crisis – NYTimes.com ISIL and western media: Accidental allies? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English Inside the Islamic State … Continue reading
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Why we’ll miss #EricTheActor
What makes Howard Stern’s radio show so compelling, besides Howard himself, is that everybody who contributes to the show is a character. That goes for all the staff members who come on the air, and all the callers — especially the oddballs … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, Obituary
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Remembering Uncle Chris
Yesterday was my Uncle Chris’s 100th birthday. When he passed fifteen years ago, I wrote the following, which I just unearthed from the Old Web. Now seems like a good time to expose it to the world. He was the embodiment of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, history, North Carolina, Obituary, Photography, Places
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Giving respect to brand advertising
I wrote the first half of the following two years ago for a name-brand Web magazine that decided not to run it. You can guess why. I later turned it into a shorter piece for Wharton‘s Future of Advertising collection. For … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, marketing, problems, Research, Technology
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#10books that changed my life
There’s a challenge going around Facebook: to name ten books that have changed your life. So I’ve thought about my own, and kept a running list here in draft form. Now that it’s close enough to publish, methinks, here they … Continue reading
Frontiers of Typicality
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