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The surgery to remove my dog’s tumor is scheduled for Nov 7. Poor guy.

We have to check in between 7 and 8 which, while bad that we have to negotiate the subway at rush hour, is good because he won’t suspect a thing as it’s our normal “before breakfast” walk. And since there’s “no food [...]

Howie Carr is probably laughing his ass off.

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Mary and John, living in suburban Washington, D.C., are starving to death. America no longer exists in any real sense since its stunningly quick collapse. Just before the collapse the ultra rich bought up all the commodities (oil, food) and sequestered themselves away in easy-to-defend military bases where they play golf and have socials, [...]

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This is trying to be a Frontline special but fails miserably.  While stuffed to the gills with creditable people, there’s not much here. No documents, nothing but opinions. And while most of the opinions are important ones (Hans Blix, etc.), there’s no smoking gun. And for something that bills itself as “The Whole Truth”, [...]

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Christie must have been getting a little bored with her formula. This is a Poirot book, no doubt, but it’s written by Amy Leatheran, a nurse hired by one of the protagonists, Dr. Leidner, to attend to his wife, Louise. Poirot doesn’t show up until halfway through the book (as he’s still traveling in [...]

Wonderful. It’s taken exactly 25 minutes after installing ColdFusion 8 to find a bug that will require me to edit hundreds of reports that have been working fine for years in MX7.
Thank you again, Adobe.
In a nutshell, the <cfdocument> tag apparently no longer has access to the arguments scope.
Given CFC code
<cffunction name=”reportfunction” access=”private” returntype=”string” output=”true”>
<cfargument [...]

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Poirot and Captain Hastings are vacationing in the seaside town of St. Loo, when Miss Nick Buckley is shot at in the garden of the hotel where they are staying. Poirot leaps to the defense of the fair damsel and tries to discover who shot at her and protect her from harm after [...]

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The daughter of a wealthy American is murdered and her rubies stolen aboard the Blue Train from Calais to Nice. Whodunit? Her estranged husband? Her maid? Her secret lover? Her estranged husband’s secret lover? The nice girl from St. Mary Meade? The not-so-nice cousin of the nice girl from St. Mary Meade? The mysterious [...]

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Sarah King is traveling through the middle east when she meets up with the Boynton family who are terrorized by the matriarch who is found murdered during a side trip to Petra. Although this is a Poirot book, he doesn’t show up until well past the halfway point. The first half is a examination [...]

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Director: Akira Kurosawa
Year: 1961
Samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) bops around looking for food and finds himself in a town with rival factions bent on each others destruction. He finds both groups are basically cowards and offers his services to the highest bidder in an attempt to get them to destroy each other. He is [...]

Massachusetts envisions extensive bike trail - The Boston Globe
It’s not the first time this has come up.  Let’s see if they follow through.  I can hear the howling now “how dare they spend my tax money!”

Wednesday was the oncology exam and things were pretty much as I expected. The one thing I didn’t know was that the tumor could grow to the point it’s inoperable and amputation would be the only option available. That might change things a bit as I’d hoped to put off surgery for as long as [...]

Played hookie on Monday and went to the Topsfield fair. Took the train to Ipswich and rode from there (about 7 miles). A killer hill towards the end there on Route 1, especially for a SS.
Played a bit with the GPS on the way there and back. It’s amazing the difference in the thing when [...]

other people’s emergencies: random thoughts of an urban paramedic: A Lesson in Civility