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Oct.09.2012
The writing day yesterday was another delight exploring words and writing stories, although the world didn't necessarily support me in my efforts.
The computer’s Monday blues continued Monday night as unrest spread from the computers and the internet to cable television. Since we use voice...
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Aug.23.2012
SAN FRANCISCO--When I was young, I used to eat food taken from a supermarket's garbage bin. We first came to America from Vietnam in the mid 70s as refugees, and my eldest brother got a job working in a supermarket across from our crowded, ramshackle apartment. Among his many chores he...
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Mar.21.2012
Published on ShanghaiDaily.com (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/)http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article//Opinion/2012/03/20/Giving+up+a+car+is+a+new+American+responsibility
Illustration by Zhou TaoGiving up a car is a new American responsibilityCreated: 2012-3-20Author:Andrew Lam
FOR the...
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Feb.06.2012
I stumbled across a website the other day—termite-revolution.com—and downloaded a tract titled “You Are Not a Termite” which seems aimed at consumers. Regardless, the piece defies desciption, yet manages to raise important questions about almost everything people worry about in today’s global...
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Jan.31.2012
For years, writing fiction, I found it difficult not to feel that I was rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. And yet optimism comes easily for me, if only because I long ago decided it’s a better evolutionary strategy than defeatism. Though I’ve read too much about the environment and listened...
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Jan.28.2012
I’m not planning to break up with President Obama, but he is definitely giving me flashbacks to relationship dysfunctionality. Tolstoy is forever being quoted on the subject: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But I don’t think he had it right. There’s...
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Dec.26.2011
It’s been a busy time for me in online dating world: much fun, new friends, maximizing my exposure to serendipity on the road to true love. I keep being surprised at how much this process teaches me about myself.
For instance, I just added another paragraph to the list of qualities I am seeking...
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Nov.27.2011
I forget which streaming video service I was on, but I got recommended the movie "If a Tree Falls: A story of the Earth Liberation Front," I guess based on the other documentaries I watch. Recommender systems are interesting because I don't actually watch many political documentaries. As...
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Oct.29.2011
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places
--Wendell Berry
I’m seated in a wood-slab patio recliner on the east deck of a huge cabin, the legacy of a cigar-chomping Chicago banker and big game hunter.
It’s a clear-blue early morning on the...
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Oct.14.2011
BOOKS The medium is the message: Why Margaret Atwood's new book is made of straw
by JOHN BARBER
Step up, lucky customers. Author Margaret Atwood has something “very special” for you: an autographed limited edition of her new book, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, printed...
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