Monthly Archives: August 2008

Summer Break

By Howard Yermish | August 25, 2008

If you are reading this, you may have figured out that I’ve been taking a little posting break since the beginning of the month. While you are relaxing at a BBQ this weekend, consider this…
Before email, postal mail arrived (and still does) only once per day. What if email only arrived four times per day? [...]

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Home Improvement List of Death - Progress Report

By Howard Yermish | August 3, 2008

With less than a week before my wife gets back from Los Angeles, I’ve made significant progress on the Home Improvement List of Death. Let’s review what has been done.

I raised the floor in the room off of our kitchen so that it is at the same level. This involved sealing the concrete, building floor [...]

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Thicker or Thinner

By Howard Yermish | August 2, 2008

Yesterday, someone was showing me his new iPhone 3G, perhaps in a slightly futile attempt to make me jealous. He was talking about how it felt in his hand and how he liked that it was thinner. I reminded him that it was thinner “at the edges,” but thicker in the middle. His is still [...]

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