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I am my brother’s keeper (on Facebook)

Posted in Columns, Island Packet/McClatchy-Tribune, tagged , , , on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Island Packet — As the older brother, I feel it’s my role and obligation to guide my younger sibling past some of the more pivotal signposts in life. I’ve done this for years. For instance, when Dave was but a wandering, wide-eyed college freshman, I would helpfully get him what amounted to moving van-loads of [...]

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The kids talk all crazy these days, but whatev

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2008 | No Comments »

PICTURED: T.I., who can get you whatever you like, especially if you would like a huge chain.
GateHouse —  In my actual job I am surrounded frequently by children, and by “children” I mean “people who are younger than me,” a group that includes everyone in their twenties and has for years. These children I enjoy [...]

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Unlike me, Obama can probably relinquish his BlackBerry and not lose his damn mind

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , , , , on November 17, 2008 | No Comments »

GateHouse — Barack Obama is a better human being than me for a number of reasons so large that it was discovered only last year by researchers in Denmark. These reasons include, but are not limited to:

His teeth, which are awesome, and which I would like to paint, even though I’m not a painter and [...]

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Facebook By Numbers, or, Don’t you judge me, or my e-mails

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, tagged , , on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »

GateHouse - As the sixth-oldest person on Earth to participate in social networking sites, what bothers me most about sites like Facebook is not the level of access they offer to my personal information. Nor is it how they make it so I constantly and accidentally learn absurdly minor details about my Friends’ days (”Abby [...]

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