Digital Flotsam Blog

An open letter to BrightHouse/RoadRunner…

I am your customer. I pay YOU for providing ME with a SERVICE.

When I call you because the service I have paid you for has stopped working… don’t start asking me a list of questions designed to establish what I did wrong. What *I* did wrong, apparently, was to [...]

The Tea Party is just like a religion. It’s based on irrational beliefs and fears, which are therefore impervious to facts. They have developed a mythology based on personal feelings and emotions, which they then try to prove by only recognizing things that appear to provide real world support for it.

Scientific method starts with a [...]

This one seems a little more sinister.  Anyone who has followed this blog, or any number of the social thingies I’m on, knows that when facebook made it’s recent privacy changes I quit the site.  I did this by first deleting every single thing I had on my facebook pages, and then deactivating it.  Well [...]

Fun 1st, Serious Later

Another “commercial free” re-issue.  About a bizarre job I had one summer.  And then a little editorializing.

I actually told the story of that job when I subbed for a vacationing Dawn & Drew on their podcast.

The usual suspects appear in support… 3 Blind Mice, Hank Marr, and Rob Costlow (I always go back to the best).

On May 13th 2005, Adam Curry’s Podshow premiered on Sirius Satellite Radio.  This is the actual opening I produced for that first show.  Most of Adam’s online “Daily SourceCode” listeners never heard it.

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Today I got a notice when I logged onto Facebook that all of my “Interests” (favorite movie, music, books, etc.) were going to now link to “fan pages”, and if I didn’t agree to that… the things I had personally listed in my profile could possibly be deleted. Well, of course, I didn’t agree [...]

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A story that starts in 1955 and ends in 1961, that involves my PERMANENT RECORD CARD. A thing, I was told, that would follow me, and possibly haunt me, for the rest of my natural life.

This one gets an explicit tag only because I believe I can make out [...]

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An entire episode devoted to the nectar of the gods… BEER. I also touch upon a very particular beer. Something I call a “life beer”. I’ve had many “life beers” but the one I chat about here was THE most important beer of my life.

I play some [...]

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