Category: full disclosure
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True Love is Forever. Apparently, so is The Gap
I just realized that today Eli and I are both wearing the same shirts that we did on the day we got engaged. In October, 2005. What’s sadder, that I remember this*, or that apparently neither of us has gone shopping in four and a half years? *There are actually pictures, which is how I…
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Cleaning Up and Looking Back
Lighting the wayOriginally uploaded by R Stanek I’ve never met a hard drive I couldn’t pack to the gills. Even so, in 2007, when I got my current laptop, 160 GB seemed like an enormous amount of space. That was before I got a DSLR with 12 MP, of course. Two thousand pictures later, some…
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Will, Fully Obtuse
On the NY Times site yesterday, William Safire complained about a line in (President!) Obama’s speech: He skirted the controversy about harsh interrogations with a facile “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals” — when there are times when that painful choice cannot be “rejected.”…
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Comedy in a Post-Bush World
Just as 9/11 killed comedy, apparently so will the Obama administration. The NY Times interviewed a bunch of comedy writers on how they planned to cope with the apparent upcoming comedy drought. (Full disclosure: I would totally watch Letterman do household safety demonstrations.) I particularly liked the point made by an Onion editor: Too many…