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Four Questions Not to Ask Jonathan Franzen

May 07 0

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” – Vladimir Nabokov I shall not endeavor to convince you that I am not a fan of Jonathan Franzen. I am. I am. If, by some election of a contained […]

Waking Up Murds

Apr 23 4

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. In my obituary, My Beautiful Wife’s name will be preceded by the words, “His long-suffering wife…”  She puts up with a lot. I’m no picnic. And you say to yourself, “Oh how bad could it really be?” Try sitting on the couch, minding your own business, […]

Cyberscum and Cyberdumb

Apr 16 1

Grrrr! As many of you know, I work for the Network Security division of a small telecom. On any given day we wade into an alligator-filled cesspool of hackers and lowlifes and people the FBI wants to find and people we actually want the FBI to find. (You’d be surprised at how often we tell […]

When G.I. Joes Collide

Apr 02 0

Golly. What a strange couple of days it has been. My work-issued laptop has been failing for the last six months. The company laptop refresh program could not have come at a better time. I was first in line to get a shiny new (and significantly lighter) company laptop. Yay! Unfortunately, if our IT guy […]