Rhyme Of The Day

Various meanderings with a rhyme in there somewhere.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

HNY

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Hoping your coming year brings songs you want to hear!
Monday, December 30, 2013

The First Great Wall

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Archaeologists from Chicago's Field Museum have been mapping out China's first great wall. “The wow factor here is, of course, tha...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Fitbit Force

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I got a "Fitbit Force" as one of my Christmas presents. It functions like a computerized pedometer, really. I don't know how t...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Reading Fills The Mind

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From today's Wall St. Journal: "Rather than bemoaning the frothy and fleeting nature of new words and phrases, however, we can embr...
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Missing a Delivery

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So the days-late FedEx package got delivered to my front door, according to FedEx, but no one heard the doorbell ring, and the search outsid...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Heat Wave

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They're having a Feliz Navidad heat wave in Argentina - where it's our seasonal equivalent of June 25. And the fish are biting! But...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Shipping Overload

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Delivery delayed: "An unexpected surge of online orders in the past few weeks appears to have strained the limits of delivery and ful...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Visions of Plumbers' Bills Danced In My Head

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We have a tree on our front lawn, a Grinch-like tree that I'd like gone. Its roots have clogged our sewer line, and in my view that...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Playing Santa

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I got to dress up in the Santa outfit and hand out gifts to kids at my sister's office party. But the costume's white gloves were mi...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Irony Sunk

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A British communications executive, before heading to South Africa, tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m ...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

'Tis The Season For Etymology

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"Holidays" are "holy days", in their original meanings. But nowadays the word and phrase display divergent leanings.
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Asleep at the Switch

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I fell down on the job yesterday - there was no Rhyme of the Day! Well, more like I lay down. I fell asleep at eight and didn't get up u...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Road to Riyadh

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This surprised me: " Steak ‘n Shake has signed an exclusive deal with AB Holdings to open 50 of its restaurants in Saudi Arabia in th...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Controlling the Agenda

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If you can believe the Daily Mail, which is always a good question, a bunch of U.S. Tech CEOs had a meeting with the prez at the White House...

Surfing To Learn About Turf

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I'm not a huge football fan, but I watch with my father and son-in-law on Monday nights, and I was puzzled tonight by something I saw on...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

By Canetti

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For book club, we read... well its working title was Kant Catches Fire, its first published title was The Blinding (but in German), its firs...

Fluffy and Cold

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Shoveled a fair amount of snow, at my house and my father's. When it comes to precipitation, I have more appreciation for rain. Because ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Publicity Stunts

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Is nothing sacred? "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took a small North Carolina community to court Thursday in an attempt...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Acclimation

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Thirty starts to feel warm, after a week where twenty's the norm. 
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Signifying Nothing

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At Mandela's funeral, the sign language interpreter was reportedly a fake... I mean, he may have been the official signer for all I kno...
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