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The Fog Bell: 1/1/12 - 2/1/12
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. And we adapt so well to captivity. You get to a certain age, and you start thinking you’ve seen much of what life has to offer—at least at the mall. But there it was, no bigger than my hand, and the furry critter was crawling all over the sales rep who insisted that a sugar bear was just what our household needed. Last I’d heard, Sugar Bear was a cartoon bear that adorned boxes of Super Sugar Crisp. Other people aren’t so complimentary. Sugar bears bite. They love...I’m s...
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The Fog Bell: 6/1/12 - 7/1/12
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Monday, June 4, 2012. They’ll just have to throw the book at me. I’ve come to a painful decision, and my answer is no. If you’ve been following this year’s national elections, you know it’s a very divided race. Giving both sides their deference, it’s a contest between shameless power and shameless wealth. Since I have neither, I was the obvious happy medium—or so insisted my candidacy’s myriad supporters on Facebook. Public servant that he was, his salary paid by my CUNY. Eventually the guard drove off&#...
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The Fog Bell: ‘And the fries are simply to die for…’
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Sunday, April 15, 2012. 8216;And the fries are simply to die for…’. Once I do get his attention, my first piece of sage advice applies to whatever he does during and after his college years: “To thine own self be true.” You know, one of those droll parental platitudes. Not that it’s advice I followed from the get-go. Before I even open my mouth, I recall a column to which a few staffers of the Ridgewood Times. When it came time to chow down. Anyway, I muddled through so with indecipherable gems such as &...
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The Fog Bell: 4/1/11 - 5/1/11
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Friday, April 8, 2011. I’m sure you’ve already read it. How could a book with this title not fly off the shelves? At least in some universe. And that’s what this book is about. It’s long been cliché to say, “We are not alone.” But now it’s our whole universe that has some company. We’re already seeing the effects. First, a short step backward in time—to where I was supposed to tell you what book. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos,. And took away poor, poor planet Pluto.
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The Fog Bell: I suppose I will stand for it
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Sunday, August 9, 2015. I suppose I will stand for it. All this arose from a single medical study that claimed, and I quote, that anyone who sits at a desk all day, even a fitness buff, is doomed. I believe I was sitting while I read about it. And even though one of my favorite movie lines is “You gotta die of something,” spoken by Sean Connery’s character Malone in The Untouchables,. Something sent a chill up my spine. Which is why I have a standing desk. It’s a cool Varidesk. Which already exist in a s...
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The Fog Bell: 10/1/12 - 11/1/12
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Because absolutely everything relies on you. Election Day seems right around the corner, and if you’re like most of us, you’re paying no attention whatsoever to what’s actually going on. But some. People are rooting for certain trusted candidates to win their elections. If you’re among them, I have some news for you: You’re doing absolutely nothing productive for your candidate. Ask any sports fan. Oh, I can hear you already. “But I’ve donated money! In the audience needs to ran...
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The Fog Bell: 8/1/15 - 9/1/15
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015. We know you’re home…pick up. Anyone who keeps up with the news—other than on pay TV—has probably heard that the pay-TV industry is losing customers in droves. How many droves exactly, no one will admit. But in the past six months, cable and satellite have lost 887,000 customers. Of course, say the pundits, we’ve gone on our laptops and tablets and phones (oh, my! To watch programming there instead. Yes, it’s the Caller-ID box. 8226; “UNAVAILABLE”:. I want to work there. 8226; ...
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The Fog Bell: 12/1/11 - 1/1/12
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Friday, December 9, 2011. One way to have a white Christmas. Anyone who pays attention knows that one job often spawns another—or, more typically, a Duggar-sized family. Of nagging little tasks. That’s what we learned when we tried to fit back into the basement, following our springtime waterproofing, most of what had been there before. And to get rid of items ruined in our past floods. Such as unused paint. It surely had us longing for the past. Sounds easy, right? I was considering my very options when...
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The Fog Bell: 10/1/11 - 11/1/11
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Sunday, October 23, 2011. Time to reset relations. I don’t play many tricks on my wife, but this one was a doozy. In the early days of PCs (and our marriage), we owned a Leading Edge. Computer that I apparently spent a little too much time using for Elena. “Leda,” as Elena dubbed her, was her competition, the “other woman.” And one day, Leda spoke her mind. These pre-Windows machines ran a text-based operating system that fogies-in-training will recall as DOS. 8221; It would often happen when we set some...
