Category: music
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I love living in the future
When I first encountered email in the workplace, I had coworkers in their 40s and 50s who said, “I hate email!” A generation later, I have a coworker who wasn’t even born then who says, “I hate email!” The people from the past were suspicious of change. My colleague in…
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Lamp unto my feet
Last month’s delivery of the junk my Dad brought home from his voyages with Columbus made me think about flashlights. I have never lacked for flashlights in my adult life because my father was a faithful subscriber to the Flashlight of the Month Club. Dad’s all-purpose emergency plan was to…
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More fun than I deserve
Electric The Cult 1987 When I was younger I wanted to find a band that rocked as hard as AC/DC but that didn’t view women as subhuman breeding stock. A band that was as heavy as Led Zeppelin minus all the mystical claptrap. I don’t know if this band has…
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King me
I can’t bid adieu to Scotland without bringing to your attention the Scotch influence on one of the world’s most popular games. Not golf, Mr. Spock. Checkers. The modern history of the game we North Americans call checkers began a thousand years ago on the Iberian Peninsula, where the Moors (the…
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England forever, Scotland a wee bit longer
Weightlifting The Trashcan Sinatras 2004 In 1999, I edited a magazine for software company called Visio. One of my columnists was Dave, our Chief Technical Evangelist. Dave was a software maestro and the champion of all things Scottish. “Aye, Steve, it’s a hildy, wildy day, but I’ll wager there’ll be…
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