Tag: Food & Lifestyle
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The Daily Gripe: February 7, 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTopic: The Influencer One of the great piles of nonsense modern technology has dumped on us is the influencer. What, in God’s name, is an influencer? And why would anyone take life advice from someone selling eyeliner while explaining why a fur-lined jockstrap is essential in a cold rink? Back in…
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Hedy Lamarr: The Glamorous Inventor Behind WiFi and GPS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis was originally from Vox Meditantis
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The Daily Gripe: February 6, 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Daily Gripe: February 6, 2026 Topic: The Olympics and Pro Athletes It is Olympic time again, and I just finished watching a documentary on the 1980 USA hockey team. For 90 minutes, I felt like I was 16 years old again. It is difficult to frame just how monumental that event…
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Week Three: From the Training Class to the Computer Room
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Night Shift: Tapes, Silence, and the Motherload The sixteen weeks of computer training were a total blast. In the early ’80s, there were no PCs, Windows, or Microsoft Word. We lived at the Local> prompt on a DEC VT100 terminal. We were busy learning the guts of the machine: disk drives,…
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The Daily Gripe: February 5, 2026
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Daily Gripe: February 5, 2026 – Image by Gemini Topic: The “Free Estimate” Miracle What marketing genius pioneered this concept? “Yes, we’ll come to your house to discuss rodent removal, and the estimate is free!”. Hold on, Timmy—let me make sure I’ve got this straight. Your big sales pitch to…
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Brazil Living Part 6 Housing
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Rio Reality: Apartments, High-Rises, and the “Paperwork” Problem In this series, I’m writing from the perspective of life in a Rio neighborhood dominated by apartment living. This includes buildings ranging from three-story walk-ups to 20-story towers. Now, keep in mind, Brazil is roughly the same size and population as the U.S.,…
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The Daily Gripe February, 4 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Daily Gripe: February 4, 2026 Topic: The Backward Hat Brigade I complain about this to no end. Why, for the love of all things logical, do you buy a hat—specifically a baseball cap—only to turn it around so the bill is guarding your neck against an imaginary sun? The bill has…
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Life Events, The Passage Of Time
Reading Time: 2 minutesDailyPrompt:How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? The passage of time has a way of reshaping everything — your priorities, your sense of what matters, even the way you see yourself. As you get older, you start to feel that certain windows are closing,…
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The Daily Gripe February, 3 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’s Daily Gripe: How was your meal The “How Is Everything?” Drive-By: A Study in Premature Evaluation Today’s daily gripe centers on a peculiar ritual of modern dining that drives me absolutely crazy. It happens every single time I go out to eat, and it’s executed with the mechanical predictability of a…