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Isn’t the Internet wonderful, with all of that information available in an instant? Crusty people like me have taken to it in varying degrees of speed and intensity, while everyone under 30, from most of my office to three nephews and niece (in their 20s), didn’t need to learn it, for high electronics is their [...]

Writer Salman Rushdie is coming to town, and I recalled I wrote a column about his troubles. It was a peach, in my fuzzy memory, so surely I had posted it online, right? Well, it is there, now. It was from 1989, and I had to type it in earlier today because I wrote it [...]

Not every book works well as an audio. If it’s adequate, it may not be a successful work-commute diversion. For most of eight years, I’ve had a long-enough drive (20 minutes one way) where audio books are more satisfying than, public radio. Spoken word holds the attention better than even the best tunes, work week [...]

This must be the way to get a couple of New Year’s resolutions accomplished: Start and finish early. It works, it has to work this time. On Dec. 26, My Beloved and I returned to Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. By mid-month, I dropped nine pounds and relaxed into the just-a-little-carb Phase 2. [...]

No hounding of the buskervilles. We have a word for it: busking. It’s the practice of a musician (maybe a duet or trio) performing on a street corner, with a hat or open instrument case right there, for tips. Towns trying to encourage tourism often encourage busking, until shopkeepers get annoyed. Above my standup desk [...]