Heard this story on the local all-news radio station this morning: a cat who can predict the death of patients in a Providence (ironic location), RI nursing home.
Seems “Oscar” has been accurate in 25 cases, most of whom, according to the story:
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 26, 2007
Death takes a holiday; cat fills in
July 24, 2007
“So just what do you do?”
Whenever anyone asks me what i do for a job, I’m always a bit stumped at how to answer. When I worked in my previous job, I would simply say. “I’m in PR.” It would be up to them to assume I had some upper level job, rather than serve as a glorified secretary for [...]
July 21, 2007
New book review: The World Without Us
A look at a new scholarly (and very depressing) treatise on what would happen if humankind suddenly and totally disappeared. On Bookreporter.com
July 18, 2007
Funny how time slips away
Received an email at work about the “SuperMega Show” at the Crown Plaza Hotel in beautiful Secaucus, NJ this weekend.
Among this scheduled to appear:
The email draws to attention that Henry Winkler and Cindy Williams are making a Happy Days reunion.
Other celebrities will be on hand. Some of these people I’ve never heard of, but their [...]
July 18, 2007
Apple, revisited
One of my first posts considered the oxymoron of “customer service” as applied to Apple.
In last his “Talking Business” column in last Saturday’s (July 14) New York Times, Joe Nocera writes about their lastest snafu: their battery replacemtn policy for the iPhone. The product just came out a couple of weeks agao and already there are [...]
July 17, 2007
Catching up: Book Reviews
Pardon me, I’ve been remiss. Catching up on recent book reviews:
In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri, by Harry N. Maclean
Heyday, by Kurt Anderen
The Colonel and Little Missy, by Larry McMurtry
July 17, 2007
Little things mean a lot (or The Amazing Shrinking Package)
Several products have come out in the last several months in scaled-down versions, in a faux-altruistic attempt to curb the obesity epidemic that has been the flavor-of-the-month topic.
Ever since Morgan Spurlock’s video diary Supersize Me made overeating newsworthy (not to mention disgusting), food manufacturers have been looking for ways to have their cake by cutting the customers’ [...]
