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There is nothing for you here, says the incarcerated lady in House of D. It’s a dream in purgatory, neither here nor there, hellish fire and hurting people (to hit back is to hurt yourself). Instead, in giving respect, you gain it back. Run Be Run. One pharmacist student – a Duc – took notice.…
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After defeat, try again. At my first wedding, out in the open, at a park, my dad took over the mike (sound system all set up, why let it go to waste) to sing. Too far to hear across the lake, I remember him raising his fist in the air when the song was over.…
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The 70’s saw me on Sunday, off campus, eating alone. Campus cafeteria closed. Other options: Roy Rogers, Carl’s Jr., Arby’s, Burger King, McDonald, Jack and Wendy’s, all cheap fast foods without a spotlight on me as in Lonely Guy, played by Steve Martin, who pretended to be a Yelper critic (or else, what reason there…
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AI will displace mundane tasks so far required muscles. With Federick Taylor, we’ve got job tasks de-constructed, conveyor belt resulting in the model T’s, “any color you want as long as it’s black”. Then “the rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plain” generic AI will “Repeat after me”. “Repeat after me”. Learning should be…
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For a moment, I thought I had been back to the war zone. But it’s simply opening day of Journalism 101 at Penn State, University Park. Manual typewriters, manual typing. You know the sound of cheap unmaintained buy-by-the-bulk typewriters. From there, “writers” went on to the Daily Collegian, and the lucky few, the Globe, the…
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In Cinema Paradiso, kids couldn’t wait for the opening credits to start dreaming. In my case, there were tons of kids, in open seating on open graves with projected images on neighbor’s wall. The alley zigzags and the screen was kind of slanted. Since my cousin’s home movies were a rare treat, beggar can’t be…
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CV or Eulogy version? Who and what are you? …so, this is Christmas…and what have you done? Giving or taking, contributing or exploiting? In “This is for Everyone”, Tim Bernes-Lee recounts his discovery (HTML) that places platform in everyone’s hand, “solidly” and “intentionally” (not just grab everyone’s attention to monetize). What a romantic and a…
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At work, at play or at home, one brings his/her whole being, warp and weakness, to bear. Therefore: You play long; they play short (Bill Clinton made an observation that in one’s life career, a worker has to switch jobs 7 times. Of late, I overheard 4-years was a good “run”. Do the math!). You…
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Have you noticed first slowly, then suddenly, certain things just disappeared? Hardback, softcover, large print, vinyl and boombox…just to name a few. Monuments stay. Libraries and cathedrals stay. Millionaires used to leave behind endowments for library to spread and strengthen literacy and civic education. On this note, I call on Tik Tok, Meta and Netflix…
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In ancient times, messengers/couriers had to run distance, arrive exhausted and get killed . Message-received more than often turns out different than message-perceived. Try it the next time you have a party, after a few drinks. Start a gossip, see how it takes on a life of its own unrecognizably at the other end. Even…
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