Today is my birthday, but I’m not posting this so that you leave me “happy birthday” comments. That’s what Facebook is for.
No, instead, I’m going to- I’m going to let down the gate for a moment and talk about a birthday memory from long ago that really changed things for me, and in a certain [...]

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If you’re like me, you probably find yourself in front of the television, watching one of the two Ghostbusters movies when all of a sudden it hits you: “I’ve been watching this movie for the past two hours and I have no idea which movie from the Ghostbusters duology it is!”
Well, memorize these handy mnemonic devices and [...]

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The Wonderland of Knowledge was a twelve volume series of pictorial encyclopedias, first published in 1937 and then updated almost every year to follow until 1968.
Forty years later, as I walked to the G train I spotted seven out of twelve volumes of the 1968 edition sitting innocuously, waiting for the garbage truck the following day. [...]

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