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A Modest Proposal for newspaper websites and newspaper paywalls
These days you can’t go to a newspaper website (and many other websites as well) without running into a paywall. As frustrating as that can be, I do understand it. Print subscriptions are way down and newspapers have to make money somehow. That being said there are a few major annoyances with the newspaper paywall system and a few things newspaper sites could do to improve things. Pet Peeves with newspaper paywalls Suggestions for improving things Newspaper Paywalls are likely never going away. (At least not for the foreseeable future unless they come up with a new monetization mechanism.) Hopefully they could at least evolve and become more tolerable for…
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Thought of the Day
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Why do People do the things they do?
Do you ever have a day that makes you wonder why people do what they do? I do. In fact, I seem to have one of those days every Sunday. The hi-rise I live in gets vegetables from our neighborhood community garden on that day each week. It’s interesting to watch the people who come to take some. First, you have those who don’t even wait until all the vegetables are put out on the table. Then, you have people who grab all of a certain thing and don’t leave any for others. That puzzles me and makes me wonder what goes through their minds. Do they not even think…
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Thought of the Day
“I am a human being, not a human doing.” -Kurt Vonnegut Why is this so hard to realize sometimes? I wonder that when I am always ready to step in and do something or to clean up messes other people have made. Why do I do it? Especially when I see so little appreciation shown. Sure, there is some, but it seems like most of what I do gets taken for granted. I like bringing order out of the chaos I see around me. Unfortunately, it also is frustrating when people don’t seem to care. I actually voiced this frustration after the Residents Council meeting last week. Unfortunately, people seemed…
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On The (Straight) Edge
Poison Running through your veins Clouding the mind Making you act a fool Why do you consume In mass quantities That which can harm? That which can make you sick? Make you sad? Do you drink to forget? To remember? Maybe to escape From life From love lost or gone From pain or sorrow Why do you pollute your body Dull your mind Fill the recycling bins with bottles Empty shells Husks of clear and brown glass Reminders of what once was and maybe what should never be. Money spent Beer drunk Clarity lost It’s never too late to stop To think To make a change Or at least to…
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