Sunday, October 08, 2023

Improving Your Investments: How NOT to Be Dumb Money (Usually), Part 3

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Part 1 Part 2 By 1993, we had lived in Massachusetts for 11 years, had investments in stocks and 401ks and had bought our first house.  But,...

Improving Your Investments: How NOT to Be Dumb Money (Usually), Part 2

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Part 1 Part 1 was basically "try not to live beyond your means."  I think if there had been cheap ways to invest in stocks to the...
Saturday, October 07, 2023

Improving Your Investments: How NOT to Be Dumb Money (Usually), Part 1

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I've always been interested in investments and sometimes been interested in economics. I've written two blog postings about these i...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

A First Experience - First Class on an Airplane

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A few years ago, either February 2018 or 2020, Jim and I were seated near the back of the American Airlines plane flying from Boston to Pitt...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

2023.9.24 Communicating with Anthropic's Claude.ai:
Getting to Know Laurie from Pittsburgh

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The last few months, there's been a lot of info and even more opinions on Artificial Intelligence. I've also been not feeling very ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Dealing with Pain

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January activity - 173 miles or an average of 5.3 walking miles a day. I closed all three activity rings on my Apple Watch 19 days (which...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

If You Submitted an Absentee Ballot in Pennsylvania (Old information unfortunately)

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I'd worked on a few elections in Pennsylvania, but the last time was in 2016. Some rules about absentee voting changed after that, but ...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022

The Downfall of Google (or Alphabet)

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Source Forge encourages people to write reviews of software products.  While I was once a strong Google evangelist, I'm not anymore, so ...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Why Do Anti-Science People Even Want to Go to Science Fiction Conventions?

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I don’t understand why anti-science people even want to attend science fiction conventions that have rules dictated by science to prevent il...
Friday, September 17, 2021

An Attempt to Talk Sense to Republican Legislators in Pennsylvania

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The Republican leadership of the Pennsylvania legislature is trying to turn Pennsylvania into the next Arizona vis a vis election security. ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Importance of Evelyn Gold...and a Rant

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I've been helping Mark Olson and Leah Zeldes with research on Fancyclopedia , an online encyclopedia about fandom, conventions, writers,...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Never Forget the Senators Who Voted Against the Capitol Insurrection Commission

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I am still angry over the #SeditionCaucus .  I'm angrier over the Senators who voted down a Congressional Commision to investigate the 1...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Letter to Senator Toomey Regarding the COVID-19 Relief Bill

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Dear Senator Toomey I appreciate that three times this year, you have voted your conscience rather than follow Republican dogma. Please d...
Thursday, January 07, 2021

Never Forget the Sedition Caucus

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These people continued to question the right of states to certify their own elections after Trump's domestic terrorists invaded the Capi...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

COVID-19 Spread After 9/22 Trump Rally in Moon Township, PA, Part 3

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   How many of his own voters does a maskless, crowded, shoutfest called a Trump rally sicken or even kill? Three weeks ago, Trump had large...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

COVID-19 Spread After 9/22 Trump Rally in Moon Township, PA, Part 2

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  How many of his own voters does a maskless, crowded, shoutfest called a Trump rally sicken or even kill? A week ago, Trump had large rally...