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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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Just spent an exhausting weekend at the extremely annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, TX. You might wonder what a man of my credentials is doing at a beer-soaked indie rock celebration. Well, bear in mind that some of the festival's main sponsors are Microsoft, Dell and DirecTV. Corporate America likes nothing better than to co-opt youth culture, and they often need a man like me "in the field" to infiltrate the hipster masses.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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People complain about waiting in airports, but I kind of like it. It's great for people-watching, if nothing else. I enjoy watching the typical airport scenes: Joyful reunions as family members return from long absences. Comedic exchanges of machismo as businessmen try to impress one another while waiting in the Starbucks line. Live action espionage as Eastern European intelligence agents hand off valuable documents to their handlers. (You need a trained eye to spot those.)
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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When it comes to comedy, I'm an old-school sort of fellow. I remember many a Saturday morning watching Abbot and Costello movies as a kid. Even then, my instincts ran to science and technology. Dissatisfied with my parents' cabinet-style cathode ray television, I did a little tinkering and accidentally invented digital HDTV several decades too soon. Unfortunately, I spilled chocolate milk all over my notes, got distracted with other things, and history had to wait.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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More from the meta-weirdness beat: Clearly, information is moving around in profoundly different ways in the Internet Age. Virtually every aspect of communication, personal and mass, is changing -- and I don't use the word "virtually" coincidentally.
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