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I like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors and especially the Scratchpad readers a safe and wonderful Happy New Year! See you in 2011! Cheers Posted by Rich

I probably don’t need to repeat how much I love the radio. Weekend America is among my favorite radio shows. I think I started listening to it right when one of my local public radio stations began carrying it a few years ago. They replaced their broadcast of a great standard and I decided to [...]

Wish everybody a safe and wonderful Happy New Year! Posted by Rich

This off-the-topic post is rather grim for Thanksgiving. If you want a cheery post for the day, don’t read this one. This holiday season, some people are campaigning for a discussion about death and last wishes via blogs. I have decided to participate because I am always surprised at how few people have thought about [...]

I wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors and the Scratchpad readers a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving! The usual Black Friday online sales, including a link to a Consumer Report article on Black Friday websites on the consumerist.com website  Planetbargains.com and Techbargains.com also have sales stuff too! Posted by Rich

Have you? The election ends at 5 pm ET on Wednesday, October 1. (I still don’t really want to discuss the election in this space. It makes me cringe.)

Smithsonian Magazine is offering a free Museum Admission card to be used at local museums across the United States on Saturday, September 27, 2008: Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide. Saturday, September 27, 2008 Present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general [...]

Here’s some Friday fun for 080808. My coworker donkeykonguk shared a quiz on the 100 most popular English words via Babbledog, the site on which we work. Since some of you really enjoy language and speak English, I figure you might have some fun flexing your brain. Be quick! You only have 5 minutes to [...]

British singer, songwriter, producer Kate Bush turns 50, today, June 30. She inspired other female singers-songwriters such as Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan among others into the music scene. I first saw her on Saturday Night Live many years ago and became an instant fan. Kate was the first singer to use a wireless microphone [...]

Aimee Mann will be performing at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Saturday, July 26 at 8 pm. Tickets, I believe, are still available. I have been a fan since her Till Tuesday days. Her concerts are very good if you can get chance to go to one. I still think she got robbed [...]