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jss @ December 28, 2007 # 2 Comments
(With apologies to Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, at the very least. I mean, I may have a lot of apologizing to do for this, but sometimes I just can’t help myself.)
(Meant to be sung and spoken to the tune of “Cover of the Rolling Stone”)
(And, for those who wouldn’t know, [...]
jss @ December 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
… unfortunately, it is on the “Highroller Casino” game on my cell phone, and I can’t figure out a way to transfer it to my RL bank account.
I have never liked cell phones, actually, and I still think it is creepy just how accessible some cellphoniacs make themselves. I wouldn’t have a cell phone [...]
jss @ December 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
(Update: If you’re going to read this, you should also know that TigerDirect, or at least someone who works for the company, apologized to me in May ‘08. Better late than never.)
TigerDirect.com, my aforementioned nemesis on whose head I have placed a price of $89.95, wrote to me on Dec. 21, subsequent to my restrained [...]
jss @ December 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A. Cat passed on a couple of years ago. He was big and white and unruly and benignly despotic. I generally avoid euphemisms such as “passed on,” but I do not have a better phrase for what happened with him; for he simply disappeared, to my consternation and sorrow. But I occasionally saw him thereafter. [...]
jss @ December 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I was driving home on Florence Road in Northampton last night behind someone who suddenly swerved to the side of the road and stopped. As I slowly went by, I saw the “what-for.” Check out the “Bumble” snow sculpture by Dave Rothstein … at least that’s the credit in the Daily Hampshire Gazette today. [...]
jss @ December 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
(Update: If you’re going to read this, you should also know that TigerDirect, or at least someone who works for the company, apologized to me in May ‘08. Better late than never.)
This is in the nature of a consumer rant. It will be one-sided, and I expect that everyone who reads it will be in [...]
jss @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
When you spend a lot of time hanging out with people in the so-called “medical tourism industry,” as I have over the last few years, it is sometimes convenient and perhaps too easy to talk about national care systems and patients in aggregate … business-plan, big-picture stuff.
I like to be reminded regularly (email is [...]
jss @ December 18, 2007 # One Comment
… to pay attention to in the telecommunications sphere are the prospects of renewed competition in the industry. The incumbent behemoths are profoundly collusive and anticompetitive and the Federal Communications Commission and the gov’mint act as though everything is just fine … which is perhaps the leading reason the United States is ranked 15th (or [...]
jss @ December 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
… in the telecommunications industry for a number of years … it was a great gig for a while, when I was running web sites for the “little” phone company in Connecticut, SNET. SNET was eaten by SBC shortly after I got there. They left us alone for a while, Connecticut not being especially noticeable [...]
jss @ December 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
… but now, I apparently play one on television in Florida and on the Internet, for a few seconds anyway. 
This was on WFTV Channel 9 in Florida, apparently edited from the same original video as used for the Channel 14 piece in the previous post. My apologies to Dr. Arnold Berlin, [...]
