The year was 2012. I was working at a company in the River Market area basically answering phones as tech...
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Read moreDetailsThere is a Twitter account called @apollo_50th that is "live" tweeting Apollo spacecraft missions as they happened 50 years ago....
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Read moreDetailsThis past week, I had 11 straight days off of work. It was the longest stretch of vacation for me...
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Read moreDetailsWhat a week. What a month. What a year. And 2021 STILL isn't here. But, we do get a few...
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Read moreDetailsT'was the night before COVID Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was coughing, not even a mouse;...
Read moreDetailsHappy Thanksgiving, everyone. We know it's going to be a while before we get "back to normal." But I'm wondering...
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Read moreDetailsBack in the before times, 2020 was poised to be the Year of the Superhero. If you follow such things...
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