Category: Personal
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We Should All Be Ashamed
I didn’t have quite the same reaction as most people did (and still do) regarding the AIG bonuses. Having worked on Wall Street for 16 years, I thought I had a different perspective than most, but still, I understood where the populist anger was coming from. Unfortunately, it’s fueled by politicians, purely for political gain,…
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Weekend Birthday Bash
Our friends from Richmond came up to spend a very special birthday weekend with us in NYC. They were supposed arrive at our apartment by 10am on Friday. That didn’t happen. There were significant snow flurries in NYC (nothing stuck), and the navigation system on the airplane was unable to make an instrument landing at…
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CMA Writers Series at Joe’s Pub
Last night was our eighth CMA Writers Series at Joe’s Pub, and the first of 2009 (yes, there will be more shows in 2009, one is already scheduled for May 21). The show started at 6:35pm (five minutes late), and was in the same format as most of the shows. There were five performers sitting…
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Allman Brothers Band at Beacon Theatre
Two years ago I saw the Allman Brothers Band (ABB) at the Beacon Theatre (without Lois). While I normally write very long music posts, that one was extremely short (mercifully so, say my readers). 😉 Everything I said in that post applied to last night’s show as well. So, you would think that I could…
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Farewell Poker
I’ve been noting the possibility of this day for quite a while, and it’s finally here. I am saying farewell to online poker, likely for quite a while, but also likely, not forever. I expected the day to come sometime in January, having gone through a very long drought of cashing in a tournament. Then,…
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Jerry Jeff Walker at BB King
A year ago we took seven people (plus the two of us) to see Jerry Jeff Walker at BB King’s in NYC. I wrote about that wonderful evening in this post. The stars aligned for us again this year, as we had company staying with us for the weekend, they love live music, and Jerry…
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Commercials Annoy But Often Work
Most people complain about watching commercials. Of course, they serve a number of purposes, the two obvious ones are: Keeping the content free (most people seem to like that part) Making you aware of a product’s existence (many people think they don’t care about this aspect) I am unaware of anyone who hates commercials more…
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OpenVPN in VirtualBox
There are a number of reasons why you might want to run a VPN on your laptop. The most obvious is that you have to, in order to access files back at the office. Two other likely reasons are security (you are in a public place, and want to encrypt all traffic) and unfettered access…
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Road Trip Completed
My last post covered the first half of our long road trip south. We left off on Friday February 6th, while David was still on call. After our shopping trip, Lois and I spent the rest of the day at David’s (where that post was written). We left at 8:30pm and headed to TCBY for…
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Two Flew South
Lois asked me to name this post Two Flew South. She had a good reason, it was clever, so I didn’t hesitate in accepting her suggestion. Let’s not make it a habit though. This is my blog, not hers, and I intend to keep it that way. Of course, all of the photos are taken…