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Bill M.
New England
Interests: Packratism,mathematics,collecting and playing odd musical instruments,comedy
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Sunk Cost and Mobile Game Addiction
The Story After 5 or 6 years of playing, I've made the decision to give up my Game of War: Age of Fire account. Those of you who are well familiar with the game may read that and think, "Gee, Bill, I didn't think anybody was still even playing that... Continue reading
Posted Jul 14, 2021 at A Place for My Stuff
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Movies Critics Hated, But Audiences Loved
Posted Jul 13, 2020 at A Place for My Stuff
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Update. And March 16, 1989.
I think it’s been about 10 years since I started this blog. Most of its visitors seem to be people who search the web for a particular topic, and come to one of my pages. People who had followed it in the past may have concluded that my clutter problem... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2019 at A Place for My Stuff
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Cleaning up Sheet Music (Alice Cooper, "Pain")
Posted Oct 23, 2018 at A Place for My Stuff
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Happy 30th Anniversary to "Hysteria"
Posted Aug 1, 2017 at A Place for My Stuff
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Low balances on too many Vanilla Visa cards? Here's one solution.
Posted May 7, 2017 at A Place for My Stuff
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John Wetton, RIP
Posted Feb 10, 2017 at A Place for My Stuff
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Brawndoism: When Stupid People Misunderstand the Smart as Stupid
Posted Jan 19, 2017 at A Place for My Stuff
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At The Circus
Posted Jan 16, 2017 at A Place for My Stuff
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Happy Pi (and S&BJ) Day
"I am repelled by wholesomeness." - George Carlin, 'Brain Droppings' (New York: Hyperion, 1997. Print.) "Steaks and orgasms: how empty life would be without them." - The Residents, 'Insincere' (2006) I love mathematics, so I'd love to talk about "Pi Day" (3/14). However, there are already plenty of sites for... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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My 2016 Election Predictions
My predictions for the 2016 election aftermath: 1) Many people who voted for the winner will now expect everything to be fixed within a few years, and that the new president will do everything he promised to do. It won't, and (s)he won't. 2) Likewise, people who voted for the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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Rebinding the Mighty Led Zeppelin Real Book, part 2
Posted Feb 16, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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Rebinding the Mighty Led Zeppelin Real Book, part 1
Posted Feb 16, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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Fixing the "SIM Card Removed" error on a Samsung Galaxy S4
Recently my smart phone has been doing strange things. I'll look down, and I'll get an error message saying "SIM card removed -- Unable to detect your SIM card. Your device will restart to check for your SIM card.", or something along those lines. No, I didn't open up my... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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Muddy Waters, 2/10
Over on my Facebook page, I regularly write notes from the various gigs I do as a musician. These have included the open mic nights I host, performances with one of my two bands (Tsunami and I'm Gonna Crawl, both linked from ZepTribute.com), or whatever other musical adventures I find... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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2015 Projects & Accomplishments
Posted Jan 3, 2016 at A Place for My Stuff
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The Lawnmower Starter Dream
I get the nagging feeling that this whole dream of me and my broken starter was symbolic. Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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A night of musical dives
The local coffee house owner extended me an offer to MC the open mic night. They have a PA head and one speaker, but not the rest. Well, I wasn't going to stand for that. As planned, I drove down the street to the local music store, where Rainbow’s “Stargazer”... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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Freezer explorations, spring 2015
Posted May 29, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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Holey Shoes, Batman!
Posted May 27, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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9 Nasty Things to Throw Away Today
A relevant article: http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-04-2013/9-nasty-things-to-throw-away-photos/?cmp=BAC-OUTBRAIN-MOB-SLIDE-DSO_27739317_9-Nasty-Things-to-Throw-Away-Today#slide2 Continue reading
Posted May 26, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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Site Changes and Upcoming Posts
After realizing just how crappy my blog looked on a mobile device, I decided to update its looks. I was almost ready to just quit Typepad and move to Wordpress, but found a way to work through it on Typepad. Typepad has some great support, too. They were able to... Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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Obama '666' lottery... debunked!
A friend of mine brought this story to my attention: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lottery.asp The short version? The day after Obama's 2008 election, the winning numbers of the Illinois Pick-3 state lottery was 666. So naturally, the conspiracy theorists freaked out over it. After all, the chances of this are 1/1000, right? Well,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2015 at A Place for My Stuff
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The Kid Who Fell Off the Basketball and Hung Himself
Have any of you ever heard the following urban legend? When I was a kid growing up in New England in the 80s, I heard a story that went something like this: "A little boy was playing around in his house. He tried balancing himself on a basketball. While on... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2014 at A Place for My Stuff
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"The government is hiding the AIDS cure! The internets told me so!"
Conspiracy theorists are both amusing and sad people. Michael Shermer writes a lot about the conspiracy theorist mentality in his book "Why People Believe Strange Things", which I'd suggest for a more comprehensive view on this topic. I've noticed that when you keep pushing a conspiracy theorist to back up... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2014 at A Place for My Stuff
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