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Want to do lunch with your favorite fictional character? Not me. I used to live with a host of them on the backside of Boston's Beacon Hill. Yeah, the neighborhood is real snooty and transformed these days, but in the 1960's it was described as a "working-class slum". Just a few blocks towards the Massachusetts …
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Contemporary wisdom over the past several decades seems to have been that you go to college to get a job. I went in the 1970's when the prevailing attitude was that you go to college to get a life and then a job. Education served the dual role of educating you as a person and …
Being guilty of your own peccadilloes is bad enough, but I was once confused with another of the same name. Without going into shameful details, this other Louis Carreras was from Arizona and was guilty of being a cad, an abuser of affections, and abandoning sweet young women on whims. Now types like this namesake …
My Macintosh computer came preloaded with a bunch of stuff I never use. Even if you are on a Windows or Linux machine, I'll bet that there is a row of icons that you've rarely opened. On my machine, there are also a bunch of programs that I have recently refused updates for. At this …
I was standing in a small town outside a small city in Nova Scotia last week. The person I was talking with gestured with pride to a group of small homes like attractive boxes scattered on the countryside above a cove., All the homes were recently redone. He mentioned that five years ago you could …
In the fall, I'll normally do a few craft shows in my local area to try out small products. I pretty much know in advance that I will not sell any large items, like boat portraits, and I don't even try. But every year I work on three or four simple items that might hit …
No, it's not a coincidence that I have been a lifelong learner. It was a family trait starting at least with my paternal grandfather, who taught himself to play several instruments and to carve and make intricate ship carvings. My Dad was a marine engineer, and the sort of creative methods of self-tuition on the …
I've read a good bit of Science Fiction and Fantasy over the years. And while I've never gotten insomnia waiting for the next installment of a trilogy, I have grown expectant of how things will resolve. But recently I've noticed that after a really engaging short series, the words seem to roll endlessly. What was …
The Nip Me: Who'd have suspected? Catnip as an invasive weed? Beam me up, Scotty! There's no logic to this...whatever happened to the little plants that sat off in a corner of the garden patiently waiting for a harvest, or a cat to roll on them? You know a few sparks as the nip took …
A banker recently described possible layoffs as reductions in "lower value, human capital", and the Tech Bro's seem to lack much empathy with the social and economic issues their businesses will unleash with the potential AI disruptions. The feeling I get is that one way or the other it's not going to be a picnic. …
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