A Culture of Diversion

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With the exception of grocery ads, I usually don’t get store flyers in the mail – except during the week of Black Friday. Leafing through this year’s ads, I’m struck by the sheer number – and visual prominence – of “smart” TVs, smart phones, tablets, Orwellian listening stations from Google and Amazon, and other electronic […]

Remembering

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My old buddy Mark Miller passed away unexpectedly a year ago today. I’d known Mark since around 1989. Apart from being in the same small group for several years, we didn’t hang out a whole lot socially, but he was one of my longest-running friends from my years living in Lincoln. A fairly hard-core introvert […]