Daily Archives: February 4, 2014

On “Caring”

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Hollywood’s drug addiction: Why did nobody care about the actor’s problem until it killed him?

Headlines are often written by an editor, so I will cut the writer of that column some slack.

But the sentiment behind that headline — Why did nobody care about the actor’s problem until it killed him? — really gets up my nose today.

For some people — perhaps most people — “caring” is a waste of energy, thought, and emotion.

Three episodes where I “cared” in the past two months reinforced this point to me.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4: US$399

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, Tab Pro Series Coming to U.S. February 13

And that made me go to the Best Buy site, where I found:

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Microsoft’s New CEO

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Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

It’s going to be interesting to see if he can deal with the consumer side of the business.

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The Pending Disaster

Yesterday’s snow was as terrible as the amount was unexpected.

And there’s more coming.

What’s it’s done so far is bad enough:

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