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Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Buying New vs. Fixing

I don’t consider myself a handyman by any means, but if there’s one thing I do know, it’s electronics. I love tinkering with computers and I’m not afraid to take things apart if that’s what it takes to fix them. Last year I decided to crack open M’s digital camera because if wasn’t working. I [...]

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There Are No Unremarkable Books

I’ve mentioned a couple of times that one book above all others put the wheels in motion in my becoming a writer. It was David Foster Wallace’s (RIP) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. At first glance, it might seem to be a pretty unremarkable book: no awards, no heaping praise, no bestseller [...]

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The other day I was walking around the city and I noticed something that happens every day: people don’t seem to like each other very much. We cut each other off in our cars, we push each other around on the bus, we give each other dirty looks when we think someone is “out to [...]

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