Here’s how lame my husband and I are. We don’t know jack about our TV. The Dalai Lama knows more about television technology than we do. Also the little French Catholic school girl who skips past my house every morning, as well as her fictional equivalent, Madeline. My husband is one bored vacation day away from […]
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Call 911. My Dendrites are Flatlining.
It was a tough weekend for me and my dendrites. You know, dendrites? The pieces of your brain that get a workout when you do things that are difficult and boring and tedious – things you don’t like to do? You’re supposed to exercise your dendrites a little bit, especially as you get older, […]
Revenge of the Computer Nerds
I was one of the lucky recipients of the latest hacker email scam – the friend who went to Spain and lost all his money and would so appreciate it if I, one of his 750 email contacts and somebody he barely knows, would send him €2,124 so he could get back home, […]
Things I Don’t Understand
I’m not like most people. Most people hate to admit they don’t know the answer to questions, and will focus on what they do know until the cows come home. I look at the world as an infinite set of Encyclopedia Britannicas and I only know one small entry from the X-Y-Z volume. My husband […]