Today's time waster is a training film from 1976, helpfully titled Basic Computer Terms . It features Harry, a frazzled businessman who is about 90 years behind on filling his back orders, a…
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It's so very 1982. It's electro, funk, and freestyle. It's got an 808. It's got a beat from a leftover, unused track, from prior production sessions for an Afrika…
Way back in 2020, I shared with you " The Ultimate SPAM Cookbook " and a lovely review of it (with a few recipes) from Miriam Di Nunzio of the Chicago Sun-Times , and s…
You might not know Roy Ayers , but you've heard his music, as this vibraphonist, composer and all-around master of jazz funk popular in the 1970s was later sampled many times…
Greetings, email marketers and other fellow humans of planet earth! It’s Friday, and you know what that means—it’s time to ditch the stress, embrace the groove, and get smooth. A…
Did you know that I've got a friend named Pat Mallinger , who, along with his friend Cameron Pfiffner, have led a fantastic jazz group called Sabertooth since ... at least N…
You know that I blog about spam. And sometimes about SPAM. I'm a fan of one but not the other. Who wouldn't love something salty that tastes a bit like bacon, and fries u…
Just remember, no matter what anybody might tell you, yes, Die Hard is a christmas movie .
Hot off the press! Well, not really. Courtesy of the RAND Corporation , here's a guide (from 1985) entitled Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail , authored by N…
If you're of a certain age (that would be the second time this week I've used that phrase, ugh), perhaps you, too, purchased the debut album from Madchester-adjacent band…
Every time John Mulaney hosts SNL, the episode includes a silly skit about some sort of NYC neighborhood grubbiness that somehow turns into a Broadway Musical. I wholeheartedly a…
I have an eclectic taste in music, which happens to encompass both Nirvana and classic and modern jazz. So color me delighted to have stumbled across this video highlighting a wo…
Today's official Spam Resource Friday Fun Frenzy commences with somebody who lives at the intersection of a whole bunch of things that I love: jazz, classical music, pop mus…
Jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is one of those musical artists who constantly looked to recreate himself musically, significantly changing his musical style multiple ti…
Sometimes, I'll have a gap in the blog calendar. Sometimes, I will choose to fill that gap with a rubber chicken squeaking a cover of Bad Guy by Billie Eilish. Sometimes, I t…
I was talking to a friend last week about DMARC reports. Her friend, who’s a bit of an email nerd (yay!) runs his own email domain and has DMARC reports for his own domain coming…
Yum! It was just last week I was sitting down to lunch in Chicago's Time-Out Market with a couple of my coworkers (it's my boss's favorite lunch spot), enjoying Kore…
I love word clouds! They're lots of fun. They're a great way to visualize writing in a way that highlights which words and concepts were likely most important to the auth…
Wot is this thing? Why, it's Lorde covering the Talking Heads , and it's an absolutely delightful time waster if you're looking for a bit of fun this Friday. There&#…
My friend Denise Miller has reminded me that we need more fun things in our lives and requested that I continue to post music periodically. At her request and suggestion, here…
