Malcolm knew when to come in and when to leave About fifteen or sixteen years ago when we'd barely fenced in our land and begun construction of the house, a pack of six or seven stray dogs, among them an ingratiating curly-tailed orange mutt we named Malcolm, showed up each morning looking for food. Pretty …
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torture by Hacking
Three days at the mercy of internet crooks Not even twenty-four hours after returning from Peru, I received a strange phone call that should have been a red flag but which I ignored because of either jet lag, stupidity or both. I didn't recognize the caller's Spanish accent, dripping with fake concern and assumed he …
The threat of “brain rot”
Something else to worry about? As 2024 comes to a close—already a humdinger of an annus horribilis, what with wars in Europe, Africa and the Middle East plus Trump getting elected—lexicographers at the Oxford Dictionary have designated "brain rot" as the Word of the Year. They defined it as "a supposed deterioration of a person's …
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