August 2011 - Mark Kaplowitz

29 August 2011

Remember When Cough Syrup Wasn’t a Controlled Substance?

In my home there is a bottle of cough syrup from a leading brand. On one side of the box there is a warning: “PARENTS: Learn more about teen medicine abuse” with a website that teens can visit just in case they don’t know what they are missing. When I was a kid my parents had to practically hypnotize me...

Health and Fitness Comments: 18

26 August 2011

Remember Liner Notes?

One might be quick to say that an mp3, mp4, or mp79, or some other digital music file, is the equivalent of an old-time audio cassette (“tape”), or compact disc (“CD”). And one would be wrong, because the computer file lacks something that tapes and CDs always had—and not just a $17 price tag, or price tag at all. A...

Technology Comments: 10

15 August 2011

Remember When Life Wasn’t Consumed by Facebook?

Have you ever been working really hard on something, and have someone who sees you working say to you at the peak of your frenzy, “You know, no one ever said on their death-bed that they wished they spent more time at work”? That may be true, but will anyone ever say on their death-bed, “I wish I had spent...

Social Media Comments: 28

1 August 2011

Remember When You Had Never Heard of a Debt Ceiling?

Two days ago, when I started procrastinating over writing this post, it seemed like everywhere I turned I was hearing about the United States’ debt ceiling, and whether Congress would raise it or subject the country to a lot of letters from collection agents. For weeks now I’ve been picturing the Representatives and Senators walking around stooped, the ceiling of...

Current Events Comments: 13

Monthly Archive: August, 2011

Remember When Cough Syrup Wasn’t a Controlled Substance?

Remember Liner Notes?

Remember When Life Wasn’t Consumed by Facebook?

Remember When You Had Never Heard of a Debt Ceiling?