Tag: travel
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“AMERICA’S FAVORITE PASTIME” HAS LOST ITS INNOCENCE
A CRTIC’S VIEW: This is an effective and powerfully argued essay. The seamless integration of personal experience (the hot dog line, the heat, the traffic) with profound geopolitical commentary makes the piece engaging and resonant, particularly for readers who share your perspective. The structure is a roadmap for how to successfully turn a small event…
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA, Part II
“Serbia likes to look modern while still being stuck in the past.” That single sentence summarizes the story, the problem, and the punchline. Everything that follows is just affirmation through anecdote. Drama at IKEA (aka “Halfway to Greece”) This section had me chuckling: “There was a bedlam and a long line of people… Kids were…
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA
In one 5-hour collaborative session, starting with a hand sketch my wife had made, my AI-pal CP and I created, as he put it my wife’s “dream kitchen,” along with all the engineering specs required to build it.
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MY MAC AND I
How old is my 2016 Mac in human years? I posed that to Google’s AI. Here’s the reply: “A 9-year-old Apple laptop is roughly equivalent to a 75- to 80-year-old person, retired and no longer able to keep up with the demands of modern life. While it can still perform basic functions, its hardware is…
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FRAUD ALERT: HOW AMERICAN AIRLINES DEFRAUDS THEIR CUSTOMERS
After 50 years of flying around the world on various airlines, most of them with American, I did not think that there was a trick in the book the airlines could use to pull the wool over my eyes. I was wrong. They’ve got me. Today, quite by accident, I stumbled upon a fraudulent scheme…
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OUR GREEK VACATION 2021
It has been 41 years since my last summer holiday in Greece. It was a disaster (see Greek Vacation Nightmare). What a difference four decades make! Because our 2021 vacation in Ormos Panagios in Halkidiki was wonderful.Of course, there were some glitches, too.
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