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Books & Memories is a secondhand book store in Syracuse, New York, with a terrible name and dead web site.
2600 James St
Syracuse, NY 13206-2842
(315) 434-9268
But because visiting it made me enormously happy, I’ll describe it here, so that you may believe, despite the inability to click on it.
Like any good independently owned store, [...]
Tags: happiness · money psychology · Venn diagram
Thanks to my wife’s insistence, I joined Facebook a few months ago. After the initial shock and awe, I stumbled into an online game called Mafia Wars. It’s essentially a role-playing game reconfigured for social networking. You create your character, then ask your friends to join your mafia. The bigger your [...]
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Items packed, but not used, on my trip to Syracuse, New York:
Workout clothes (2 pr shorts, 2 shirts, 1 exercise bra, 4 pr socks)
2 work-related books
2 work-related files
Why do we think we’ll work and exercise according to our everyday schedules while we’re on vacation?
It may give you comfort (or an increasing sense of fatalism) to [...]
Tags: money · relative comparisons · time
Why do Minnesotans love Target so much? Recently, the Star Tribune reported that despite Target’s losses to Wal-Mart in the rest of the country, it was still holding its own here.
To many Minnesotans, the equation is not “MN-heart-Target.” It’s “MN = Target,” says a University of Minnesota researcher. Carlos Torelli, assistant professor of marketing at [...]
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I have a vivid memory of standing with my mom in her bedroom as she went through her closet, bemoaning that she had nothing to wear. I was probably 4 or so. I didn’t understand what she meant — there were clothes everywhere.
Now she is me. My own closet is full of vintage dresses that [...]
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2,160.
That’s the estimated number of times the word “money” turns up in the 360-page novel Money, by Martin Amis. And the word never loses its thrill. What was narrator John Self thinking or feeling about money right now? What would happen — good or bad — because money was there, or [...]
Tags: Martin Amis · money psychology · Steve Almond
Recently I had a request to grant copyright permission for a class.
Included with the request was a form where I could decline permission to use the article, grant free use, or name a fee for use.
I was confused. Wasn’t this a clear example of fair use? (Which allows small numbers of copies to be made [...]
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