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Luddite: any opponent of industrial change or innovation

September 5, 2010

Hi. My name is Jed.  I’m a recovering Luddite.    For more than a decade now I have been fighting progress in the world of technology.  Not that I haven’t desired to progress along with the rest of society.  But I’m just technologically  inept.  I always have been.  In Junior High (we used to call it that [...]

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SAGACIOUS: having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense

August 8, 2010

There is a plethora of people to whom could be attributed the word sagacious. It is a word that encompasses not only the Steve Jobs’ of this world, but touches on those personalities who regularly appear in our media as having wisdom beyond the norm and the keen ability to translate that wisdom into practical [...]

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JED WAVERLY, TECHNOLOGICAL WIZARD: my own version of Oxymoron

March 2, 2010

When I was a kid my father, a man who could fix most things, would ask me to help him.  He would send me to the cellar to retrieve an Allen wrench and I would return with a Phillips-head screwdriver.  I won’t go into the various ways in which my expertise in things mechanical would [...]

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