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In Praise of Vapes
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(Humor)
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... are the primary trash category. Discarded cigarette butts on sidewalks and in street gutters are much more numerous, albeit less obvious, than all the pieces of paper (receipts, wrappers, tissue), coffee ...
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Created on 01 December 2019
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The Curious Case of Tom Petty's Deat
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(Humor)
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... home.” For those keeping track, LA isn’t Malibu or, even, Santa Monica. Besides, LA has always had more than its fair share of unexpected celebrity deaths. LA should sit on its hands.
Tom Petty, wherever ...
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Created on 04 October 2017
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Mini review: “Alien: Covenant”
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(Humor)
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While a duplicitous, “synthetic” crew member is nothing new in the “Alien” franchise, this idea is at the heart of “Alien: Covenant.”
More than that, it’s the AI’s hunt for existential meaning that ...
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Created on 23 May 2017
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Slot Machine Panhandlers: A Modest Proposal for Las Vegas
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(Humor)
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... people asking for a handout, hoping they’ll get lucky.”
Practical considerations
With more thought, and after several discussions with other people, I’ve came up with a number of practical objections ...
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Created on 13 March 2017
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That Drone Deafened Me
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(Humor)
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... noise in urban and suburban environments, from barking dogs to air conditioners to Taylor Swift on tight rotation. What's one more thing? Besides, the Subway Drone will bring me my tuna sub quickly!"
But ...
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Created on 12 August 2016
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Rebar and Speaker Wire: The Problem with ‘Star Trek’
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(Humor)
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... series, Gene Roddenberry, bless his visionary heart, more than once portrayed glowing conduits when the crew had to fix something under a bulkhead. The impression was that light was being used to carry ...
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Created on 26 July 2016
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Tech In Far-Flung Settings
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(News)
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... pictures and videos with each other and the world. By one estimate, more than 758 million photographs are shared on social media every day.
Indeed, sales of smartphones, which overtook PC sales back ...
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Created on 01 October 2015
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Spiceworks Announces Free IT Help for Community Members
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(News)
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... of more than $600 billion in technology products and services each year, used its annual user conference last week to announce Spiceworks IT Concierge Service.
The wide-ranging Concierge Service will ...
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Created on 27 September 2015
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TIBCO Podcast: Live Streaming Data—How to Analyze, Anticipate, and Act in Real Time
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(Search - Web Links / My Clips)
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TIBCO’s own Mark Palmer, SVP, integration and event processing, sits down with technology journalist Ellis Booker to discuss the evolution of live streaming data. Proponents of Big Data in every industry ...
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Created on 18 May 2015
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Companies Spending More on Marketing Systems
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(Search - Web Links / My Clips)
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Created on 09 January 2014
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Massively Parallel Processing Finds More Applications
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(Search - Web Links / My Clips)
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Created on 30 October 2013