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Today is 011010 — I like the binary code appeal of the date.  Switch on.  Switch off.  We have a base 10 system, 10 fingers and toes.  We like $10 bills and $100 bills.  Appreciate decades and centuries.  Ten Commandments.  I’m sure there is some meaning to the numerology of today, so if you are [...]

An old (well…longtime) high school friend noted on his Facebook that he was selling off his Get Smart collectibles.  Of course, that sent me on a frenzied google and bing search for Get Smart collectibles.  Here’s the site:  http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/collect.html  The prices some of these items can fetch is worthy of note…but the chuckles you’ll get [...]

Love this — my sister just sent me this viral email with a virtual life expectancy calculator.  Have fun — and who knows how right it might be?  I discovered, according to this, that I’ll live til 90 and have 14,800 days left on the planet.  Works for me.  Ummm…if you are 89, I wouldn’t suggest [...]

Have you ever called 311 in LA?  311 is the main line number to connect with Los Angeles City Hall.  In our city, the voice message is that of Mayor Antonio Villaragosa and he cheerfully invites you to take advantage of the many services available to you through the city government.  And even better, while [...]

Enjoy this very funny skewering of outsourcing by The Onion.

I just had an epiphany as a result of today’s Wall Street meltdown. I may have to change my focus. I’ve been spending years writing about Boomers and 50 Plussers to help express our voice and to creatively find ways for us to continue to secure meaningful employment as we hit the “50″ [...]

If you have never had your own virtual online model to “try” clothes on for you at an online retailer, then you cannot miss this. My Virtual Model brings you a fun, easy way to create, not only a fairly realistic personal model, but allows you to try on clothes from a good spectrum [...]

I subscribe to a great blog, Time Goes By, written by Ronnie Bennet. And I’m just falling off my chair laughing, so I have to share her post and the video clip with you. TGB interviews Mrs. John Hughes, a stand-up comic who becomes a “You Tube” celeb. If you’ve got [...]

Thanks to reader Richard M., who sent along this slideshow clip on a 75 year old woman’s impassioned reaction to poor customer service in response to my post on VOiP earlier this week. My experience with transferring over to VOiP was not nearly THIS hairy, but I, along with millions of others who rely on [...]

I am a Jew. I’m proud of it. I find my spirituality in my faith, just as Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and other believers in different faiths do in theirs.
“If it was good enough for Jesus to be a Jew,” says my 71-year-old mother, a practicing Jew, “it is good enough for me.”So, what has [...]