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My first trip to New York City was on the first week of January 1994, if I remember correctly. I was really excited about going to New York, especially the first time. Who wouldn’t be? I was in a New York state of mind. It was bitterly cold, even for NYC. With the wind chill factor, it was -18C or -.04F. I was lucky to even land because of the ice and snow. In fact, most of the time I was there,…

Last year I was following the story of a Ukraine woman leaving the war-torn country with her son. She left with the equivalent of US$400. By the time she got to Poland, the Ukraine currency had devalued and all she could get for it was $60. She left Poland because there were too many refugees and the chances of finding work and a new home were limited. So she caught a train to Germany, which was…

On the 11th of July 1970, I went to the record store in Castricum, near my home in Bakkum, where I lived with my grandparents. The scent of sunscreen already hung in the air, a whisper of freedom as days stretched longer and school tests were behind us. Most weeks I would go to the store to pick up a copy of the Radio Veronica Top 40. It was ironic that while they were an illegal Pirate Radio…

A school holiday job at Auckland Museum imprinted 100-year-old songs in my head. W Notting. 1896. Albion Type Press, 1978.927. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). At the closing of 1971, my father got me a job at the Auckland Museum, working a 100-year-old printing press, reproducing articles published by the NZ Herald of 1871. In my role as a printer’s apprentice, I printed…

In a move that will surely send shivers down the spines of horror fans everywhere, Stephen Kinng has filed a lawsuit against BookMaster, a new large language model (LLM) that has developed the capability to write novels. The lawsuit alleges that BookMaster is responsible for a series of books written in Kinng’s style that are so well-imagined and written that they are hard to distinguish from…

Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant came out in 1967 and being a student of Delta Blues, what appealed to me was the structure of the melody. I played it a lot at jam sessions, although I never got more than about 10 minutes into the song, although like many of the concept albums of the day, I knew most of the lyrics. This was such a clever song and story, starting as you might remember “This song…

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How I got the sale for the first scanning liquor store in New Zealand. Other people's opinions are just that, opinions https://t.co/dMeXRA4dGu #POS #Retail #scanning #liquor #sales #First #Marketing https://t.co/BTNNCv8W9d

Now that is so much better than shooting people! https://t.co/dUjTzPj7HB

I hope I never see anyone using one of these. I can imagine that some people with health conditions might find this liberating https://t.co/IYLmfVcB9u

I want one of these Santa https://t.co/xrQahGX7iH

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