Monthly Archives: April 2009

All swine flu, all the time

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 27, 2009

First let’s check Fox News. Hmmm. Geraldo Rivera is there reporting on the outbreak at the high school in Queens. A search on twitter shows thousands of tweets… sixty-nine more swine flu tweets came in while I wrote the preceding sentence. Oops, now it’s 179 tweets since I looked. This is like drinking from a [...]

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Surf’s up!

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 24, 2009

There’s an onomatopoetic resonance to “Platboom.” It sounds just like surf to me. Mike Golby—photographer, blogger, writer, and surfer—has some amazing pictures at his travel blog, “Cape Point Reserve.” You can find a more complete set of Mike’s breathtaking photography here at Zoopy. And of course there’s a facebook group. Mike’s been building the Cape [...]

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Good enough for who it’s for

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 23, 2009

To those who have inquired and anyone else interested in why Listics has been silent so long, I’m okay. The first quarter of 2009 has been difficult, but things are looking up. Two months ago I had a mild heart attack, but everything now is groovy. The cardiologist has given me a handful of pills [...]

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