Monthly Archives: March 2001

Pimped

    “Pay phones all were ringing as the crowd went roaring by”n    “A Year Without Jimmy Buffett”. It sounds like it should be a Rankin/Bass holiday special. But it appears that, yes, we’re actually not going to see … Continue reading

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Jekyll & Hyde Live!

    1999 was a pretty good year for theater in Detroit. Along with the usual and inexorable return of Cats and Les Miz, we were treated to the local premieres of at least three award-winning Broadway productions. One of … Continue reading

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Oscars 2001

    It’s Oscar night tonight. This is one of my favorite days. I’m one of the few people I know that truly enjoys the Academy Awards. Not the fashions, not the glitz, not the showy production numbers. The awards … Continue reading

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(Boy Was I Naïf)

    A little facelift, but hardly the massive one I would like to do [back on my old page]. I just wanted to get some use out of my latest webcam, which I bought from a company called x10. … Continue reading

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Comment Commentary

    Did a few administrative changes around the site. For one thing I got rid of the fairly pointless Message Board [the old Ultraboard, that is; not the new YaBB SE board]. I knew it would never really take … Continue reading

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The Pine Reassessed

    I’ve since done a complete about-face regarding my Pine SM200C MP3 CD player, as reviewed below. I still love the concept of an MP3 CD player (much more than a hard drive or memory-card player), but the Pine … Continue reading

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