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My Favorite Gadgets: The Top Five | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/my-favorite-gadgets-the-top-five
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. My Favorite Gadgets: The Top Five. With the iPad 2’s arrival next week, the temptation to buy another gadget rears its expensive head once more. This time I’ll pass. At least until the the device gets handwriting recognition, then I’ll exercise my American Express card. What would make the cut? I gave this notion some deep thought recently and whittled my list to these:. 1 Torelli road bike: I’ve owned this bike for nine years. I have ridden tens of thousands of...
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Magazine First Issues: Telling America’s Story | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/magazine-first-issues-telling-americas-story
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. Magazine First Issues: Telling America’s Story. My good friend David Leishman collects first issues, the initial printed edition of a magazine; or generally known as Volume 1 Number 1, though there are some exceptions. He has a comprehensive collection of first issues for 20th century American magazines. And, along with the notable collection. Of Dr Steven Lomazow, one of the finest first issue, private repositories in the country. It took me awhile to realize some ...
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My Name. Your Name. Do They Matter? | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/my-name-your-name-does-it-matter
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. My Name. Your Name. Do They Matter? Recently, Cathie and I were watching. Night Train to Munich,. A 1940 stiff-upper-lip, wise-cracking English thriller starring Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, and Paul Henreid. Cathie remarked when Henreid appeared in the film that she did not remember his name from the opening credits. Neither had I. Yet, there he was: the immortal Victor Laszlo, Humphrey Bogart’s competition for Ingrid Bergman’s attention in. In theory, though, ...
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My Obsession With Numbers | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/my-obsession-with-numbers
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. My Obsession With Numbers. After eight years, tens of thousands of miles, hours upon hours of use and abuse in all kinds of weather, my CicloMaster. Died It had tracked my miles, my speed, my time, and other statistics as I pedaled my bicycle around the state of Oregon. With society as my primary pusher, I’ve been addicted to numbers since childhood. Without them, I would not exist. Growing up, what would I have been without my grade point average? I wish I could sa...
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Hitler Revised: Just Goin’ With the Flow | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/hitler-revised-just-goin’-with-the-flow
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. Hitler Revised: Just Goin’ With the Flow. Bad boy Charlie Sheen’s ravings are strange, even frightening, but nowhere close to the evil rants of Adolf Hitler, the benchmark for public madmen in modern history. Or so I had thought. But it seems that 70-plus years after the start of World War II, historians are updating the common wisdom about the all-powerful German dictator. Recent revisionist tracts, such as the diplomatic history. 1939: Countdown to War. The Nazi l...
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So Long, @Croisan: Five Twitter Lessons | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/so-long-croisan-five-twitter-lessons
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. So Long, @Croisan: Five Twitter Lessons. I am putting my Twitter persona, @Croisan, out to pasture. After two years and 10,000 tweets, it’s time to quit and reflect on what I’ve learned along the way. I lied about the other four lessons. This is not to say I have nothing to impart to you. I do. But @Croisan (For the curious, it’s pronounced kroy-zin like poison.) can’t be summed up in a tidy curriculum that you follow to become a Twitter god or goddess. Better left ...
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Bye Bye Croisan Views | Croisan Views
https://meh2meh.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/bye-bye-croisan-views
No illusions, but plenty of allusions. Bye Bye Croisan Views. This is not the first blog I’ve abandoned. That would be Words. At http:/ www.markeveretthall.com. An experiment I conducted many years ago. I created Words to post some of my old published essays and to play with Apple’s iWeb software, the worst blogging tool I’ve worked with by far. I learned what I could and then, like so many other people, moved on to other things. Some bloggers approach their task as if it were a never-ending story, infin...
