February 2010
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Au Revoir, Automat
Native New Yorker Zoe Schneider holds a party every month for native New Yorkers—like me! (When she isn’t partying, she makes cute kids’ t-shirts, which I wrote about here. Twenty percent discount for Obsolete readers!).
For the invite to the latest party, Zoe included this nice little summary about something that was fading fast when I was a tyke: The Automat. I recall going...
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Really, would any of us have ever been conceived...
(from farbror-sid.se via DarkRoasedtBlend)
“When printed books first became popular, thanks to Gutenberg’s press, you...”
– Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic, quoted in the story How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing : NPR
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WatchHello blog readers! Sorry for the lack of posts of late, but I was away. Now I’m not away. Away/not away, there/here. Yes, I know these distinctions are complicated in a time when one can blog from anywhere, but there you have it. I’ll give you a couple elipses so you can consider this.
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Thought I’d kick off my First Day Back with this sad...