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Free Stuff!
My email spam folder receives new entries daily and I noticed an interesting trend a few months ago. There are “companies” that really want to give me a lot of free stuff! This all starts when you innocently provide your email address to an innocent-looking website. I’m pretty sure the culprit in my case was… — read more
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Skycast Football
The ESPN-managed SEC Network broadcast the Kentucky-Georgia football game today (October 4) using the Skycast feature of ESPN’s Megacast technologies. I really believe this is a great way to watch any football game. I recall watching it during last year’s college football playoffs. The experience is very different from a normal game presentation. No announcers… — read more
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Fun with Text Scammers
A common pig butchering scam often begins when the target gets an “accidental” text message from the scammer – often purporting to be a woman – and the target innocently responds. The scammer then apologizes and begins a bit of back and forth with the mark, hoping to rope them in, with the eventual goal… — read more
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Birthday gift problem for modern parents? Solved.
Modern parents have critical issues facing them, especially regarding their kids. We live in a brave but tough new world. I wish my parents were still alive so I could ask them just how they navigated the treacherous waters of parenthood. I just turned 70, so I suppose it doesn’t matter. I think I turned… — read more
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Sharing
Here’s a couple of quick hit things I decided to vent about on a Monday. — read more
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Why?
I read a site this morning that listed 40 or so problems that science is (allegedly) this close to solving. I read the one in the box above, and my immediate reaction was why would anyone want this? — read more
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Not Enough Toilets
I saw this bit of information in Reddit’s Today I Learned subreddit. I have two toilets in my home. Does this make Kel and me privileged and part of the 1%? I was kind of hoping that my career successes or financial status would be more critical than the number of commodes over which I… — read more
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This is not good. I think.
Tom Brady is performing in advertisements for Hertz Car Rentals. They feature Brady in a “talk show” format, discussing all manner of car rental things with the “host” of the show, comedian Yvonne Orji (with whom I am not familiar at all, but whatever). Does anyone remember the last world-famous athlete who hawked services for… — read more
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George Dearborne’s Lotta Honky Tonkin’ Left In Me
I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months catching up on country music after an April Nashville visit that drew me back. I’ll write about why and what I’m listening to in another post. This one is about a really great album. George Dearborne is a Texas-based performer who is something of a regional… — read more
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You can’t drive anymore. Or run for President
Kelly sometimes uses really precise analogies to express her opinions. She came up with a great on the other day. We were discussing the pressure being applied to Joe Biden to drop out of the current Presidential race against Donald Trump. Kelly’s analogy was very familiar. Biden being pushed to drop out is similar to… — read more