From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Flowers in the Summertime

Jun. 28, 2008

Aren’t the flowers pretty?
I uploaded these and other flower macro photography shots captured yesterday on the Bridge of Flowers in the Pioneer Valley village of Shelburne Falls.
A far cry from the lovely sidewalk flower pots in Newburyport, the Bridge of Flowers is a one-of-a-kind wonder of the world. Outside of botanical gardens, I can’t think [...]

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The Brave New World of Blogging

Jun. 27, 2008

My father bought a home computer, the Texas Instruments 99/4A, when I was 6.
Dad taught me LOGO programming to command virtual turtles to move around a screen; and he showed me the fundamentals of connecting our dummy computer with an acoustic coupled modem &mdash like in the movie “WarGames” &mdash to remote bulletin board systems [...]

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Atheist Comedy

Jun. 26, 2008

After watching some funny video segments, remembering his cameo in the film, “Dogma,” and googling to see what other people were saying, I realized that the late George Carlin was an atheist.
I never thought about this before.
The guy knew how to tell funny jokes. People laughed.
But how much of his anti-religious establishment routine was an [...]

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Say No to Junk Catalogs

Jun. 26, 2008

Did you know that 53 million trees are chopped every year to produce 19 billion catalogs to be mailed to American consumers?
Do you receive a lot of junk catalogs?
I’ve received junk catalogs and I’m sure you have too. I used to recycle them, but since last fall, I’ve successfully unsubscribed via a free service online.
Interested?The [...]

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Paysha Pounds Globe Pavement

Jun. 26, 2008

Paysha Stockton Rhone reports to work today as the new Names columnist at the Boston Globe.
I used to work alongside Paysha in the south-of-Boston communities of Abington and Rockland in 2003-04 when I freelanced for The Enterprise and she staffed The Patriot Ledger.
I haven’t seen her in a few years but I’ve spotted occasional articles [...]

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Ban Bottled Water and Buy Local

Jun. 25, 2008

The Newburyport City Council recently approved the fiscal 2009 budget and while I did not attend the budget hearings, I am willing to hazard a guess that the departmental line items for Poland Spring multi-gallon plastic tanks of water were left alone.
Here’s a radical idea: Eliminate the multi-gallon bottle delivery to City Hall and other [...]

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In Tribute to George Carlin: Fuck

Jun. 24, 2008

An eclectic book reader and collector, I used to own a copy of English as a Second F*cking Language but I recently sold it along with other rarely-read books on my shelf.
I still own The F Word, a combination dictionary, thesaurus, and reverse word dictionary of perhaps the most tabooed word in any language.
In the [...]

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