Author: Mark Boszko

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Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

  • geek

    New Apple hype: “It’s like a backstage pass to the future.” Who thinks this stuff up?

  • geek

    So, I hear that good ol’ Steve Jobs is planning something ex-trey special for his Macworld Expo keynote speech on Monday. Lots o’ hype, and superlatives galore. The rumor sites have been scrambling over each other’s carcasses to be the first to be embarrased by their complete and utter wrong-ness. Apple’s own web site has […]

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  • ramblings

    So… this bottlecap from my Nantucket Nectars lemonade says “Christopher and Rebecca Sears, of Bedford, N.H., have collected hundreds of Nantucket Nectars bottlecaps.” I suppose they’d have to be as bored as I am right now. Bored enough to resort to actually posting something in my blog to pass the time. Thankfully, Lauri interrupts me to ask what effervescent means. So, I pull up m-w.com (Merriam-Webster, the best damn dictionary ever), and out comes:

    Main Entry: ef·fer·vesce

    Pronunciation: “e-f&r-‘ves

    Function: intransitive verb

    Inflected Form(s): -vesced; -vesc·ing

    Etymology: Latin effervescere, from ex- + fervescere to begin to boil, inchoative of fervEre to boil — more at BREW

    Date: 1784

    1 : to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes

    2 : to show liveliness or exhilaration

    – ef·fer·ves·cence /-‘ve-s&n(t)s/ noun

    – ef·fer·ves·cent /-s&nt/ adjective

    Indeed. Like I said, all bubbly an’ shit.

  • ramblings

    I’m sitting at work, talking to AAl over AIM, as usual, and punching holes in pieces of paper that seem important, but in the long run, really aren’t. Need to figure out what I did this month, so I can bill NIH’s clients for them, and so I can prove I can do the hours that the higher-ups want to see me doing before they’ll get me some new Macs. It’s a dirty job?

  • geek

    A New Blog, by Bob. More to come…

  • Magical 5-inch Discs

    4 min rants

    For the past month-and-a-half, I have been sharing my joy with a new techno-toy to anyone who will listen. Unfortunately, the technology is still new enough that is hasn’t become commonplace, and I find myself explaining the basics to those I hope to understand my giddiness. The technology? DVD.

    It’s understandable that DVD isn’t well […]

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  • Small Town America

    5 min rants

    Tomorrow is Independence Day (which I learned in my recent reading of Made in America by Bill Bryson, is a curious date for the celebration of our country’s birth— the declaration’s proposal was adopted two days earlier). Thoughts around this time inevitably turn to Americanisms like the flag, fireworks, mom’s apple pie, and the quintessential […]

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