jim.liebert

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Paperboy Karaoke My mom had the records of many of the original soundtrack musicals. When the movie Oliver! came out I listened to that record over and over. I was also a paperboy at that time – the Milwaukee Journal,…

Take Two, browser version

Acknowledgments Thank you to Mike Stevens for the cover photo and Josh Wunderby for the sketches. Special thanks to Clare and Mike. All spelling and grammatical errors courtesy of the author. For Katherine Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Take Two

Lou Mulligan is the quiet half of a set of identical twins. When tragedy strikes at home, he moves a thousand miles away to try to reinvent his life. He meets a cast of eccentric characters on his odyssey from…

Baseball Rarities

Anything can happen in any given baseball game, but some things are rare; some are super-rare. Can you put these in order from rarest -> most frequent? Try these two drag and drop quizzes. Warning these are really hard! If…

I internet so you don’t have to (1)

Thunder Road I lived in New Jersey for six years in the eighties and one time I was helping a friend move. Just seven or so of us slinging boxes in silence. Then someone started in on Thunder Road. Well,…

Four months in Beijing

Four Months in Beijing. By 1999 I had sixteen years in as a software developer and I was tired. I had been studying Mandarin off and on for a decade and had finagled a modest scholarship to attend the Beijing…