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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Swimming pool as car wash
It’s a cool, damp Sunday. Up the street from me, my neighbours found this in their pool: I guess that’s one way to clean an SUV.
I remember to post about memory
A couple of days ago I wrote briefly about this story, which concerns scientists finding a way to erase certain memories in mice. The idea, I suppose, is that eventually we’ll be able to erase our disagreeable memories and convince … Continue reading
Maybe you shouldn’t write for a living
At this moment, the world is obsessed with the perceived financial calamity that keeps sending everything down, down, down … except, perhaps, consumer prices. There’s hand wringing, hair rending, tears a plenty and profanities shouted from rooftops. As a Simple … Continue reading
Memories are no longer made of this
I visited Nick Carr’s blog Roughtype and discovered that the Charlie Kaufman scripted movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is moving from the drama category into documentary. Carr’s post Remembering to forget is worth a read: “Slowly but surely, … Continue reading
Quick post: Seth Godin on vacations
In reading Seth Godin‘s latest book, Tribes, I came across this and thought it was worth posting: Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. I … Continue reading