Potpourri (curmudgeonly thoughts for breakfast)
jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]
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I have won $153,000 so far …
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 [...]
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Among my other favorite things …
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 [...]
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