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What's Funny Is That The Idea Of Popularity - Even The Use Of The Word 'popular' - Is Something That Had Been Mostly Absent From My Life Since Junior High. In Fact, The Hallmark Of Life After Junior High Seemed To Be The Shedding Of Popularity As A Central Concern.

I've Loved Some Gadgets That Were Not Worthy, And I've Loved Gadgets That I Would Have Loved More If I Had Waited For Their Developers To Figure Out How To Really Make Them Work, But I Loved Them Anyway.

The Iphone Calendar Isn't Bad, But It Isn't Great, Either. It Only Offers A Day View And A Month View - It Doesn't Have A Week View, Which Drives Me Crazy.

In My Perfect World, We Would Establish Perhaps Four National Zoos Of Unimpeachable Quality And Close The Rest Of Them.

I Remember, When I Was A Kid, Watching My Mother Jam Herself Into Her Girdle - A Piece Of Equipment So Rigid It Could Stand Up On Its Own - And I Remember Her Coming Home From Fancy Parties And Racing Upstairs To Extricate Herself From Its Cruel Iron Grip.