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Eclectic should be my middle name, but you can find out more at www.magpiemusing.com.

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In Which I Shoot My Mouth Off About Electric Cars

11/14/11 12:27pm by magpie
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One of the things that I realized during the #Snowtober power outage is that it's a damned good thing we don't have a plug-in electric car. It's one thing to run a handful of appliances off of a small generator, and use candles and batteries, and open the garage door by hand. But I dare say you can't recharge an electric car with a little Subaru generator. So then what? Huh? Stuck until the power company sees fit to restore you to the grid.   Read more >

On Personhood and Schrödinger's Cat

11/7/11 12:59pm by magpie
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On a beautiful July afternoon, nine years ago, we had a late lunch with friends who were visiting from Iowa. As I sat in that sidewalk cafe on Madison Avenue and sipped my cold glass of Sauvignon Blanc, I contemplated the fact that I was pregnant.  Read more >

Banks

11/1/11 7:34am by magpie
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So you probably think that because I titled this post "Banks" it's going to be all about Occupy Wall Street and dissing capitalist pigs. Wrong! It is about banking, though, but banking at home, not in an institution.  Read more >

Getting Things Done - on Steve Jobs and Robert Moses

10/7/11 7:47am by magpie
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I'm not sure that I have anything to add, but I need to say it anyway. The first computer I owned was a Macintosh, bought in 1985, for about $2500 – which would be about $5000 in today’s dollars.  Read more >

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Magpie
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February 2007
About Me: 

1 child, 1 husband, 2 kittens, 1 job, 1 house. Sometimes I think eclectic should be my middle name, but you can read more about me at www.magpiemusing.com.

 

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