Big Retail and Malls Are In Trouble—and It’s My Fault!
Forbes Magazine reports that so far this year there have been more big retail store closings (5,944) than there were …
Category Archives: Technology
The Great Green Dinosaur Followed Us to Fleetwood
The moment we decided that we wanted to leave Manhattan came in a cab ride to the dentist, whose office …
Why Robots Scare Me
It’s not that I fear they will take over so many jobs that we will end up with a permanent …
We Have a New Cleaning Lady!
THEN: Sprinkle the carpet with damp tea leaves, which always should be saved for that purpose, by putting them into …
No, I Don’t Want to Install Now!
I don’t want to install this evening, I don’t want to be reminded tomorrow. I want you to quit bothering …
Addenda to Mary’s Previous Post on “Reclaiming Conversation”
Palimpsest—Oil by Herbert Knapp I painted Palimpset on the kitchen floor of our apartment shortly after we moved to Manhattan …
IBM Orders Employees Back to the Barn
IBM has given certain divisional employees who work from home 30 days to join a team in an office location …
Television is Bad for Babies
The American Academy of Pediatrics says so—and they have been saying so since 1999 when they published their first policy …
Update to “We’re Going Digital!”
Our experiment is not working out too well. Not surprisingly, we haven’t been able to find an objective digital replacement …
We’re Going Digital!
2016 was the year our television died—and not a moment too soon. We didn’t rush out to replace it, and …
