Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Print or Digital?

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 It's Election Day in the United States, and it's been going on for so long, and has been talked about so much, that we are all exha...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

My Social Media Break Status

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Surprising myself, I have now (mostly) stayed off of social media (not counting blogging) for a little over three weeks with some minor exce...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Rethinking Technology

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Sometimes, I feel like a lumbering dinosaur, refusing to adopt the latest and greatest.  My motto is "just because it's possible do...
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Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Good and Bad of a New Hospital Building

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The hospital addition that I blogged about last year because of its topping tree is completed and almost ready to open to patients. Today, ...
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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Don't Expect Privacy

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Sometimes, the mail brings a big surprise. Yesterday, there was a letter in our mailbox.  Yes, a real live, actual, letter.  The return name...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023

May the 4th Be With All of Us

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Today, May the 4th, is Star Wars Day (May the Force (be with you)).  This has become a day for Star War fans to celebrate.  But could any of...
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Sunday, July 24, 2022

A Farm Tale or Two

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In one of my blueberry picking posts this year, I mentioned I would blog something about the owners of the U-Pick blueberry farm and what th...
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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Alexa

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Alexa, in the form of an Echo Dot, has been in my life since early December, 2016.  I bought the Dot on a Black Friday sale, as I recall. Th...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

How Many People Does It Take to Buy a Light Bulb?

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It started with a burnt out little lightbulb. We bought our chest freezer back in 2012. It has a light in the inside of the lid which turns ...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

The Fickle Finger of Fate

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I try very hard not to be grim on my blog, but it's been hot, and I am just a little bit sad this morning.  So, once again, this isn...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

A What If Historic Website

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No, the Internet isn't 100 years old and there are no websites that date from 1921, but consider this for a minute: You may have been ke...
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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Virtual Clutter

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Today is the last day of February.  I'm scrolling through memories. iPhones have a feature where you can look at photos from a certain d...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Happy Belated 50th Birthday Internet!

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On October 29, 1969, the Internet was born.   I'm just a few days late celebrating. Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post called "So ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Strange Encounters with Sears Microwave Edition

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About a year ago, my spouse received a letter from "Sears at Home".  For my readers not in the United States, Sears and Roebuck ha...
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Thursday, July 18, 2019

Life in 1969

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Maybe I should have been a sociologist or a cultural anthropologist (sometimes they look at the same thing from different angles) .  Many ti...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Brave New Shopping World

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We did it to ourselves. Macy's welcome sign - now it's gone Yesterday, after work, my spouse and I went exercise walking in our...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Computers - #AtoZChallenge

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I originally wrote this post in May 2009 and repeated it in October of 2011. Many people I know can not remember a time without computers...
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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Amazing April #atozchallenge

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Please join me as I Travel Through Time and Space on the first day of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge to a playground in the Bronx, New ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Throwback Thursday - How Did the Baby Boomers Get Online in 1958?

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A "personal favorite" posts from 2009, repeated once in 2014, and edited a little.  My son is grown up, and hopefully, knows ...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Is The Pen Still Mighty?

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Everyone who writes has a fantasy. One day, we will take up our pens (or typewriters, or computers, or smartphones/tablets). We will write s...
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