Author: nytm
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The efficiency of trains
Hello again friends! I’m back stateside, and wanted to follow up on this note from a couple of months ago. At the time I talked about how I took the train from Boston, Massachusetts to Syracuse, New York. The train ride was about 10 hours, about 5.5 hours longer than the equivalent car ride. As I…
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Gimmickry…
Hello again, Friends! I recently came across an eweek.com piece on what’s expected from the iPad 3. I’ve made a habit not to talk about this kind of stuff, but feel significantly compelled to opine on this particular subject, not because of the topic (the new – rumored iPad 3), but because of the tone…
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Western Massachusetts – Birthplace of Horror Movies?
Hello again friends! A very quick update as I am traveling for work. I recently (Thanksgiving 2011) had the opportunity to take the Amtrak Lakeshore Limited from Boston to up-state New York. As we left Boston, we went through the suburban landscape of Eastern Massachusetts. This landscape is quite nondescript and similar to what you would…
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Academic & Business Research – A definition
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Hello again my friends, it’s been a while since I last wrote, but alas… here’s another update. Introduction: In my “day job”, I’m often in place where I have to define what “research” means, especially in the context of differentiating between business research and academic research. I always find it hard to define without accidentally…
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University Donations
Hello again my friends… I guess this should get filled on miscellaneous and maybe “times they are a changin’” Introduction: I recently made very meager donations to my high-school, undergraduate university, and graduate university. The response that I got from each of the universities was quite disproportionate with the what I would expect which made…