My So-Called Life, in Six Words
jss @ February 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yep. There I am on page 127 of “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.”
Smith Magazine got the idea, see, from Hemingway, that one can say quite a lot in six words, which of course, one can, whether one is famous or obscure. Most of us would be the [...]
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Caring About Pro Football …
jss @ February 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
… is irrational. And I’ve got my irrationality firmly in check, yessir I do. I have rules about how much I let myself care.
1) I only really care about the Pittsburgh Steelers, and that’s because I went to high school in Upper St. Clair, Pa., way back in the 1970s.
2) But I try to care [...]
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Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: Ironic Comment of the Day
jss @ February 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I claim no prescience as to whether Microsoft will succeed in taking over Yahoo, and there are far too many zeros in the number $44,600,000,000 for me to have an idea of whether it’s a worthy offer for shareholders or not. I’m befuddled, often, just by the range of prices available to me for [...]
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