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“when classic monopolies meet disruptive technologies, it’s not pretty”

Editor explains why The Baltimore Sun is “no longer a newspaper company” - Baltimore Brew. Via @MisterBoh.
Oh MAN is this fascinating stuff. It’s reeeeally interesting to see where The Sun is (or thinks it is) going with things, especially right now as the industry is as delicate as a fluffy dandelion puff.

OK, Baltimore, you can laugh — for now

For the last six years i’ve been mocking the fearful Marylanders about their attitudes toward snow. Snow would fall, the town would panic, the news would cover every flake live from the salt dome, and I would laugh and laugh. Pansy-ass Baltimorons!
But the tables have turned; now I’m in Pittsburgh, it snows all the […]

Hither, whither and how!

Lord, I can’t wait to move out of this house. We brought everything back from the storage unit (long story) and it’s stacked, boxes floor to ceiling, in various rooms. Nothing is where it should be. It feels like a cave of Wicker Wonders in here, and it’s making me claustrophobic.
We have yet more packing […]

Thoughts while watching the fourth season of The Wire

• Jimmy McNulty: I can’t figure out what makes him so attractive.
• Utz Jalapeno potato chips smell weirdly like Chinese food.
• Hey, I’ve been there!
• And there!
• But never there. Oooh, scary.
• I feel much safer, as a Baltimore resident, post-Wire than I did before.
• Second season had my favorite version of the theme song.
• […]

Goodbye Blog Baltimore, hello Mobtown Wire!

So last Tuesday our friendly neighborhood telephone repair technician came out to our house and fixed our staticky phone line. That was the good news. The bad news is that he made the DSL juju go away. Perhaps it leaked out. There was some cable splicing, that’s all I know. So for the last (omfg […]

Here, fishy fishy

Lucky my camera has an “aquarium” setting.

Is March over yet?

I don’t know why I’m making myself continue Nablopomo. The lists I am making myself write are especially taxing.

They are difficult to come up with
They are generally boring
they are (did I mention this?) difficult to come up with.

My sister and her boyfriend are here visiting and we are all plumb tuckered after a day at […]

Ways to drive to the zoo

Take the beltway to the JFK and get off at Druid Hill; hook a richie and drive until you see the sign
Wackily, suddenly, fumingly,  apprehensively, excitedly, confusedly or with mixed feelings

Tomorrow’s TV — today! Or in 6-8 weeks!

Read a really useful article in the Sun today: Mike Himowitz: Act soon to try out your TV’s converter.
Apparently the government is offering up to two $40 coupons toward a digital signal converter box for our perfectly adequate television, with which we use a set of rabbit ears to catch PBS Kids, Martha Stewart’s TV […]

Dilute! Dilute! All-One! OK!*

With all this talk about superbugs caused by overuse of antibiotic soap, and of baby soaps causing some sort of chick hormones in babies, I’ve decided to switch the family to exclusive Dr Bronners usage.
It’s the stuff we always use when I go camping with Iain, and now when I bathe the boys and get […]

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