For those who purchased a computer with Windows 8 installed, Microsoft made its new operating system, Windows 10, available for free for all of us who have been living with two competing operating systems occupying the same space. Today is Windows 10 Day, and when it is fully downloaded, I will be getting my passport stamped in Win10World.
Read More
Before today, the customer review page for River Bluff Dental (located at 10851 Rhode Island Ave So., Bloomington, MN, 55438) had received 16 comments, most of them complimentary. (At least one review seems to have been written while still under the effects of general anesthetic, but it is a five-star write-up nonetheless.)
Today, the family dentistry practice received about one hundred more reviews (I stopped counting a couple hours ago). Its Yelp page has received more than 1000 reviews today alone, most from writers who will never see the inside of the place nor ever breathe the air of Bloomington, Minnesota. All of the reviews are negative, and many threaten one of its dentists physical harm. Its website, riverbluffdental.com, displays one line: “HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.” The website has crashed.
Here’s the thing about threatening harm, on the Internet and in real life: violence and threats of violence are evil, and people really need to stop threatening people with harm and stop doing harm. The problem is, the following story which stars one of the dentists at River Bluff Dental, puts even my idealism to a test.
The Telegraph in England revealed today that one of River Bluff’s dentists, a Dr. Walter James Palmer, is the big game hunter who was responsible for slaying Cecil the lion, a 13-year-old big cat, on July 1.
Read More
Alfred Hitchcock is credited with coining the term “MacGuffin,” but not the thing itself, which has been around since people started telling stories to each other. In spy movies and thrillers, a MacGuffin is the object that sets the plot of the movie in motion; it’s usually a something people desire that the hero and his nemeses pursue, and that pursuit provides the film’s plot. The specific nature and form of the MacGuffin is usually unimportant to the overall plot. In plot terms, but not theological ones, the apple in Genesis is a MacGuffin.
Neither of the two most famous examples of a MacGuffin in film history appear in a Hitchcock film however, even though he used the device quite frequently in his many movies (he directed more than 50 films from the 1920s through the ’70s).
Read More
stories, anecdotes, poetry, essays, and general magic
The blogging challenge keep you motivated and start the new year on the "write" track!
The Dangerous Blog of Mamie Van Doren
Daddy issues are for beta bitches
Poetry and the rumblings of my synaptic snap.
Poetry BLOG By Edge of Humanity Magazine
-- A Modern SuperWoman Life
Shortness of Breadth
because the story must be told
Award-winning historical murder mysteries inspired by classic 19th-century novels
My thoughts, sentiments, and scribbles on womanhood
Perfectly Imperfect Human
Discovering the joy of art
open your mind to a growth mindset and new perspectives
Truth of life
Autoimmune Arthritis isn't the end of the world, it's just another way of living in the world.
The Gad About Town 