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Notes from a trip to Mohican State Park, Perrysville, Ohio
My wife and I recently vacationed at Mohican State Park in Perrysville, Ohio. we stayed at the Lodge, which I recommend, and spent our time walking, hiking, and exploring the area. I enjoyed getting...
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The GOP does not have a monopoly on sexist political discourse
Author David Gerrold, who tends to attract a mostly left-leaning following, posted this link recently on his Facebook wall: https://www.facebook.com/david.gerrold/posts/10206216221616836 Here...
View ArticleCitizens Bank: the bad house-guest who won’t leave
[address elided] August 23, 2015 Citizens Bank Consumer Loan Servicing RJW 218 P.O. Box 42002 Providence, RI 02940-2002 To whom it may concern: My wife and I paid off our Citizens Bank HELOC around...
View ArticleComics aggregator now supports “Bloom County 2015”
For those of you who use my comics aggregator, please note that it now supports Bloom County 2015.
View ArticleAnnissa Essaibi-George property-tax cover-up raises doubts about suitability...
Dear Ms. Essaibi-George, Before today, my wife and I were unreservedly looking forward to voting for you in the upcoming election. Now, however, we’re no longer sure you’re the kind of person Boston’s...
View ArticleGE “RC24914-E” universal remote: here’s the correct manual to use
GE apparently thinks it’s a good idea to sell at least five different universal remote controls with the same model number. Not only that, but the instructions for programming the different remotes...
View ArticleLying about lying with statistics
This morning’s email from LinkedIn recommended I read “What To Do When You Catch A Liar“, by a Dr. Travis Bradberry, which makes the following dramatic, attention-grabbing claim in its third sentence:...
View Article“Dilbert” banned from comics aggregator
The Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams has been banned from the comics aggregator. I will not in any way support or involve myself with someone who writes stuff like this. If you don’t see why it’s so...
View ArticleOnePlus: the cell phone brand for masochists
Here’s what you’ll be getting when you buy a OnePlus phone: glaring software bugs which the company allows to persist for over a year; new features rolled out with inexcusable bugs that should have...
View Article#GlobeDelivery also fails to NOT deliver to people who DON’T want papers
(See the previous chapter of the Globe Direct saga.) To the staff of the Boston Globe and everyone else who has anything to do with your vile “Globe Direct In association with redplum” weekly...
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Recruiters to avoid: add CyberCoders to the list
When you work in high-tech, especially at a start-up, random recruiters calling and emailing out of the blue is unavoidable. It’s so bad that most tech engineers and managers I know simply don’t...
View ArticleHack of the day: Synology NAS: “semi-public” Photo Station albums
I have a Synology NAS running the beta release of DSM 6 (I don’t know if the following hack will work in DSM 5). I’m trying to migrate over to using Photo Station to manage my photos and videos, now...
View ArticleRoR Resque “uninitialized constant” errors: the explanation nobody on the web...
My company uses Resque in our Ruby on Rails app to handle asynchronous tasks that we don’t want to slow down interactive user requests. Recently, we noticed that our Resque jobs were behaving weirdly;...
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