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On June 29, I was laid off. I am looking for something in the editing, proofreading, or journalism fields.

King Charles wields the Holy Hand Grenade. https://t.co/Ra9RzIb3fn — Matthew D White (@MatthewDWhite2) May 6, 2023 Dangerous rabbit has bitten at least 2 Perry residents https://t.co/wqW0uGA03M — KCCI News (@KCCINews) May 10, 2023

Forty seconds into this trailer for SyFy’s “The Ark” — it’s hard to tell because it’s small and pausing on YouTube puts the video controls over it — the word “maintenance” is misspelled on an ID badge. This is not … Continue reading →

I did a double-take when I walked in to a Culver’s recently and saw the sticker on the door announcing it was proudly serving Coca-Cola products. Noooooo! Culver’s, according to a 2021 fragment of a paywalled story at AdAge, was … Continue reading →

Apple: Welcome to iOS 16! With “all-new personalization features“! “It’s easy to customize the font, color, or placement of elements on your Lock Screen by tapping the element.” Me: What the [expletive deleted] did you do to the clock font? What … Continue reading →

And I said, what about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” I said “I think I remember the film”… During the last school year I regularly rode the bus, KOKZ 105.7 in Waterloo switched from Top 40 (the previous 15 years of such, … Continue reading →

…and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the “Ship of Dreams,” and it was, it really was. Yes, I typed that completely from … Continue reading →

On Friday’s Jeopardy, $1000. No takers. My mother would not be happy. (In other Jeopardy news, my TV app malfunctioned on the pivotal Tournament of Champions game. Unfortunately, most likely due to a tangle of rights issues — ABC gets the … Continue reading →

May 19, 2004: My first encounter, but not first payment, of $2 gas in Iowa was at this station at the Lime Springs corner on US 63. I managed to avoid that mark for another 10 months. I’ve been keeping … Continue reading →

Chicago Tribune: More remote workers are moving to small towns like Quincy that better match their lifestyles as pandemic reshapes the workplace For Marcus Medsker, the pace of life in Quincy, Illinois, is slow. … Quincy, home to about 40,000 … Continue reading →