Gadgets and gizmos

I have spent my whole week updating my home office.

This is a task that I have been avoiding for a long time, as I am computer illiterate. What put me over the high-tech top was my 70-year-old mother couldn’t talk to me this morning. She was busy paying her bills online, while talking to all of her family members at one time with instant messenger. How that crazy woman can manage 10 conversations at once is beyond me. “If you want to chat you will just have to go online,” she said.

I considered it until she asked me if I wanted to hook up to some sort of camera that you put in your computer. That way you can watch the person as you type. No one should see me that early in the morning before coffee, so that idea is out.

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If horses can fly, rivers can speak!

Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology, has landed among us with a modern name, the “Pegasus Transmission Niagara Reinforcement Interconnection.” Company officials say Pegasus will “reinforce” our energy supply and provide badly needed money to our state, county and local governments.

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Crazy ladies on lawn chairs in Totowa, New Jersey

I’ve never been very good at making summer plans. It perpetually seems like the end of the school year is weeks away. My mind is focused on the weather getting warmer, and the end of classes usually consumes my life.

This past semester was a tough one for me. I was returning to NYU film school after a semester of working as a production assistant. I shot my first large-scale student film and juggled classes and an internship. My only thoughts of the summer were spent fantasizing about taking time off from movies in general.

“Perhaps I’ll get a job doing something else,” I told myself. “Something with less stress.”

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