Path Circuitous Take Did I

November 7, 2009

ShareHow long do you think it will take until human communication devolves into yoda-speak?

Texting has become our preferred form of communication (statistics).  Blogging, at best, has been reduced to re-posting other’s original content and, at worst, either re-tweeting Twitter messages or updating the status of our banal lives on Facebook.  Oh, and let’s not forget [...]

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Blockbuster's next blockbuster

June 22, 2009

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Last night, I went to the theatre and subjected myself to Ben Afleck’s latest bomb.  There went another two hours and $10 that I’ll never get back.  Now, I probably could have rented an equally lackluster film and saved myself some time and money.  And considering the continued economic depression, I mean recession, [...]

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CVS. The Brand for Sick People

March 2, 2009

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Well, at least that is how I think of them.
My earliest memories of CVS/pharmacy (or Consumer Value Stores as they once were called) are of trips with my parents picking up prescriptions or cold medicine.  We may have picked up some incidentals while we were there but our mission was to make ourselves [...]

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Embrace your inner 'nome

January 29, 2009

ShareNo, I don’t mean Gnome as in the little Travelocity guy or the traveling lawn ornament in Amélie.  I mean your Genome, but not as in your DNA.  Your Social (media) Genome.  We all have one whether we are aware of it or not.
When the DirecTV guy installed my first TiVo box, he gave me [...]

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The price of "free" is $0.99

January 22, 2009

ShareOver the past several years, I have become increasingly sensitive to time (midlife crisis perhaps?).  The amount of time spent waiting (in line at Starbucks, in traffic, for those who think a 9am meeting starts at 9:30) or suffering web services that just plain suck is less bearable than it was yesterday.  My self-importance is [...]

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How can GM get their share of the bailout

January 10, 2009

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Unemployment in the US hit 7.2% in December, the highest in 16 years.
During the first half of 2008, as gas prices breached $4 per gallon, MBTA ridership increased over 6 percent compared to the same period in 2007.  The latest MBTA figures indicate that in November, even as gas prices have dropped by 50%, Commuter [...]

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What would EF Hutton 'tweet'?

January 5, 2009

ShareI arrived late to the dance when it came to my appreciation for Twitter.  I just didn’t understand what would possess someone to broadcast the minutiae of everyday life.  But then very smart people, whose writings I absorb, embraced the platform to the extent of a minute’s downtime would call for the creators’ heads.  These [...]

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In Search of Meaning

December 30, 2008

ShareAt dinner at one of my local eateries, I happened to overhear an all too familiar refrain between a waitress and a patron.
Patron: “How is this?”, he asks while pointing to an item on the longer than necessary menu.
Waitress: “It’s good.”, she says without emotion or further clarification.
Patron: “OK, I’ll have that, please”, he reluctantly [...]

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Ghosts in the Web

December 29, 2008

ShareDo you exist?  I do.  And you know that you do too.  We fight for attention from birth and work our whole lives to make a name for ourselves.  Heck, I’m writing this blog to compete for your limited attention.  I can admit that.   So why, pray tell, must we troll the internet anonymously?
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The Internet Paradox

November 24, 2008

ShareIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had [...]

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