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York, PA Businesses (3)
Fischer’s Meat Market was one of those local places you could walk to for all of your groceries, preventing that area of York, PA from being a food desert—a term that wouldn’t surface for years and something we needn’t have worried about in the prosperous 1960s. The market had canned foods, veggies, and of course…
York, PA Businesses (2)
My reminiscences of businesses in the immediate area where I grew up in York, PA continues. There were two very close newsstands: Babe’s (at the corner of George and South Streets) and Carl’s (a few blocks away on George Street). Babe’s had a huge selection of comic books around and past the pinball machine. This…
York, PA Businesses (1)
Recently, when passing on the way to Greensburg, PA, what used to be an office supply store, then a medical equipment company, and now an abandoned business, I thought of a stationery store in my hometown of York, PA. From there I began to muse on the other businesses in the immediate environment where I…
Don’t Break the Chain, Or!
Occasionally someone puts a post on Facebook or other social medium that suggests something dreadful and catastrophic has happened to them. But when you read on, you discover that it’s a canned posting that they are copying and pasting and exhorting you to do likewise. For example, I saw this recently from someone who doesn’t…
No More Wings
At dinner for Valentine’s Day, we sat at a table next to a screen broadcasting the Olympics. And for some reason I flashed back to my last experience at a Buffalo Wild Wings. The theatre people working on a show would go out after each performance: Primanti’s on Thursday, TGIFridays on Friday (of course!), BWW…
Wrong Answer!
Lately I’ve become more persnickety in my responses to the wrong number texts as these examples will demonstrate. That ended that conversation; sometimes the halt is abrupt., but not always. In the above example I used AI to respond poetically. Two Anne’s at the same time…double-barreled Annie’s? I just want to wish Richard on eHarmony…
Wrong Number!!!
My best estimate is that so far this year I’ve had two dozen “wrong number” messages, either by text, WhatsApp, or telegram. They keep trying, and I keep trying to be amused by it, but sometimes they just don’t want to play. For example: No further response. This one got a little farther., after I…
“The Autumn Visitor”: AI & Me
Many artists are concerned about the use of AI in the creation of new works. The fear, as I understand it, is that AI scoops up chunks of intellectual property the way the ST:TNG Borg removed planetary chunks, and then regurgitates it in subtly (or not so subtly) plagiarized ways. And so I’m supposed to…
Follow the Signs for a Revelation
Trudging through frozen streets of barely plowed snow, I reached the door of my therapeutic massage place—and the sign inside the door says “we’re closed.” But it’s minutes away from my appointment time. I look through the glass; there are people in there. And still I’m confused. My Catholic school training has kicked in, making…
Explain Snapchat Names
In the early days of the internet I was always surprised when people came up with interesting aliases. I was impressed that they took the time and care to create a unique username. Flip that coin. Now we see the dark side of handle creation. Not only are people attempting to hide their true identities,…
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