Jeremy Bent

Month: January 2009

  • Pure Celloing Satisfaction

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    Yo-Yo Ma had the look on his face that represented the feeling deep in everyone’s hearts: joy.

  • My Great-Grandfather Is Smiling In Heaven

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    I come from a family of notorious tinkerers. My great-grandfather, Mort Mason, was a lover of all things mechanical; my dad spent part of his inheritance in 1983 on a computer that’s outstripped by most modern calculators; and my brother has probably broken more computers than many people will ever own. Messing with things is…

  • Help me, intarwebz

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    So I’ve got a bunch of rewards points stockpiled on my credit card. Here is my dilemma. Should I: (a) be responsible and replace my pillows and duvet, which are old and definitely need replacing, and are possibly full of anti-sex mojo, which would explain a lot? or: (b) be irresponsible and buy a Muppet?…