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Cash for Your Broken Gadgets

Cash for Your Broken Gadgets

I’ve got something like a Museum of Home Computing up in the back bedroom, and still haven’t found a solution. What do you do with an old 386 Acer, anyway? And that monitor that’s got a weird green glow. Oh, and the dot-matrix printer… In these parts, there’s no recycling depot for such stuff, and there’s no way I’m dumping them in the local landfill… so I’m still working on that issue. But I did just come across a solution for all those smaller dead electronics that drift in odd corners of our lives. Sell them!

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Ahem…

Ahem...

Please be kind and forgiving, if weird things are happening with Domestik Goddess over the next few days. Well, I mean, more weird than usual… I’m moving the site to another server that’s faster and sleeker and generally a very happy place. You know, it’s like when you go into a mall and half the [...]

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Irish Dried Cat

Irish Dried Cat

First, let me give you a little background on “Lucky” — the mummified cat that one Domestik Goddess reader discovered (most unexpectedly!) in the roof of an old thatched cottage in Ireland… Note to the squeamish: You didn’t honestly think I was going to spring a grisly photo on you, did you? This tiny little [...]

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Geek Chic

Geek Chic

One battered old-faithful dictionary on my shelves, published circa 1975, defines a geek as “a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken. ” You may be deeply relieved to know that I’ve upgraded to a squeaky-new Canadian Oxford, although I can’t claim it’s a [...]

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President Bartlet on the Butterball Hotline

President Bartlet on the Butterball Hotline

In hono(u)r of American Thanksgiving, coming up next week, let’s all enjoy a classic episode from West Wing, in which President Bartlet gets on the phone to the Butterball Hotline: If they ever bring West Wing back on the air, which you know isn’t going to happen — but I’m just saying, IF… it’ll need [...]

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