Category: essay
14
Sep
The Next Few Art Forms
by mgmb
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An artist friend of mine once said he’d like to invent a color. I think that ambition is present, in one form or another, in...
10
Sep
On Flakehood
by mgmb
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One of my personal maxims is “Make something every day”. This turns out to be easy as a programmer most of the time, since I...
04
Sep
Arterials: The Lifeblood of a City
by mgmb
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My lovely lady friend is going back to school this fall to do her Master’s degree, and so I’m more keenly aware than usual of...
22
Aug
Being Home and Being Mental
by mgmb
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I used to think about killing myself every day, sometimes more than once a day. You might think that would make a person seek mental...
09
Aug
The Fool’s Gold Standard
by mgmb
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I mentioned that I’d had a suprisingly positive service experience with the local Nissan dealership, and I am happy to report that they followed through on...
11
Jul
Service Alchemy
by mgmb
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Sometimes a good service rep is all you need to transmute a bad experience into a good one. I had the opportunity to visit O’Neill...
09
Jul
The Great Delight: Learning Other People
by mgmb
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http://firstworldchristian.com/ One of the best things in life is learning something new. In my case, I take particular delight in learning something new about someone...
18
Jun
Buying a House in Sin City East
by mgmb
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You know nothing, Mike Burton. That’s what my head has been telling me for weeks now. I have been trying to dot all the I’s...
17
Jun
On Coming Home
by mgmb
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I came back to Newfoundland this year after six years living and working in Ontario. It has been exciting to see all of the activity...