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Honestly, I can’t believe the Globe printed this but maybe my expectations for a major Boston area newspaper are just too high. The story is called “When Evil Meets Good” and tells of how Shawn Fields-Berry, good personified apperently, was his on his bike by a car driven by Robert Parsons, evil personified. [...]

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Nate Korpela, my friend in Seattle, was in town last week and we were discussing why we don’t use Boston in our mailing address. My friend from Seattle, convinced that zip code is the most important item in an address, decided to test his theory. He emailed me two postcards one with Roxbury, [...]

When Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out, John Granger, author of The Hidden Key to Harry Potter listed ten things that happen in every Harry Potter book and made ten predictions for the fifth book. He’s done it again for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Interestingly, he’s carried [...]

I came across this entry in Jon Stahl’s blog a while back and it jumped out at me immediately. I’ve been trying to step back a bit from the working experience I had during the first seven months I was in Boston. I want to take some time and evaluate what happened, what [...]

The U.S. Puzzle Championship results came out this week and I placed 232 out of 434 (80 out of 395 points) solidly middle of the pack. The winning score was 385 and I can’t fathom how that was accomplished. I did note two names below mine, at 234, Penn computer science professor [...]

I got an email from Michael Capuano this week. He was actually replying to an email that I sent to him. A form email, really, sent through the Sojourners web site. I was doing this quite a bit a couple months ago just to see what would happen (note: I also sent [...]