Blog Master G

Listen up, people: If you type with a computer — and something tells me you do if you are reading this — then stop with the space-space habit! It’s not correct and it’s annoying. It has been a long-time pet peeve of mine when reading and editing others’ text. As I learned from career journalist […]

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I’ve been fighting a cold — fortunately, successfully — this week. I refuse to get sick. I normally only get sick once per year (in late November), so I refuse to let it get to me this time around. Jen had it pretty bad earlier in the week, but I’m fending it off and feeling […]

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See update to item 2 below. I’ve been using the same primary, “for human eyes only” email address for nearly a year. I began using said address last March when I finally got fed up with an inundation of spam going to my previous address, which I’d been using all over the Web and with […]

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A Google search for buying an SUV has long yielded as the first result my rant from around this time last year about the fuel inefficiency of and misperception about the greater cabin space in SUVs (Think Twice Before Buying an SUV). That piece has yielded a number of comments and much debate on the […]

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Few things get me fired up enough to write a letter. Tonight I did just that to the president of my high school alma mater: Gabe (Address Withheld) Rev. (Name Withheld), S.J. Jesuit High School P.O. Box 254647 Sacramento, CA 95865-4647 November 26, 2003 Dear Father (Name Withheld), Today I received your “Building for the […]

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As I’ve written several times in the past, I feel strongly about fighting Big Tobacco. I’ve lost two family members in the past two years to cancers caused by smoking. The Voices Against Tobacco site is one of the many ways you can make your voice heard. Tobacco affects us all; it kills nearly half […]

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The San Francisco Bay Area Mob Project has a new Web site that was announced yesterday. In the Past Mobs section are a number of photos ripped off from various sources, including gabeanderson.com. Namely, this one (of the back of Ben and Jen, and the profile of Enoch), and this one (of The Westin St. […]

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From the September 2003 Harper’s Index: “Maximum number of miles per gallon in Ford’s most fuel efficient 2003 car: 36 Maximum number of miles per gallon in Ford’s first Model T: 35” The first Model T was built in 1908. Here we are in 2003 — nearly 100 years later — and we’re only getting […]

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Anyone who thinks that the U.S. Patriot Act is a good idea should read this account of why it’s so dangerous to our basic freedoms and Constitutional rights as Americans. (Thanks, Shannon, for the link.)

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Why is it that most companies that provide customer service via email never actually answer your questions, forcing you either to seek answers yourself or to engage in a never-ending back-and-forth email exchange? Take this recent example related to my experience in placing a series of orders via Amazon and Alibris for my Dad’s first […]

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