Paul Dempsey

I'm a web old-timer, going back to Mosaic and Gopher. Veteran of the first browser war of the late 1990s. Currently digital manager at Immaculata University.

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Ever publish something with an embarrassing typo? You'll appreciate my essay in @insidehighered. https://t.co/n9IxdyRPhK

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@wagssid @GlennClarkRadio Where's Earl Weaver when you need him?

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@andrewcareaga Works for me.

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@JoyceCarolOates Think of the nationwide Verizon outage in January. People couldn't receive texts or calls and GPS directions stopped. Even with a connected computer, you couldn't log in to some services without 2FA. We were helpless.

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@MarcACaputo The threats are coming from inside the building.
The Hoover Building

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@wagssid @rshields37 The great Jimmy Breslin.

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@BoylanRoger "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
The man could turn a phrase.

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@TheCinesthetic Elmer Bernstein.
He had a long and versatile career, from his early work like The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, to later comedies like Animal House, Ghostbuster and and Airplane! I particularly liked Stripes.

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@sentientsparkle @JoyceCarolOates I see what you did there.

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@JoyceCarolOates Scam.
https://t.co/gY4EFgAueF

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@TalksPolitics24 @LizMair @bonchieredstate Consumption taxes are regressive. On the other hand, property taxes can hurt older homeowners who are house-rich but have limited incomes.

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@20th_Centurygal Dylan
Positively Fourth Street
Ballad of a Thin Man

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@RonWyden

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@andrewcareaga @JVMonte2 All the Way From Memphis - Mott the Hoople
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan (a twofer)
Halley Came to Jackson - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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@LizMair This would bolster the argument to give DC actual representation in Congress.

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@JoyceCarolOates Isn't anyone going to talk about the cow in the photo?

Was she an imposter too?

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@broadstreetl215 @SEPTA_SOCIAL Penn Relays start today.

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Happy birthday, Will!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

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@JoyceCarolOates Later expanded into a book.
https://t.co/FzUFVtcDfW

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@JoyceCarolOates Years ago Nicholson Baker had a piece in The New Yorker about the tragedy of libraries tossing their bound hard copies of newspapers, including those gorgeous color comics sections, in favor of microfilm.
https://t.co/YEhCyw8EeL

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@JoyceCarolOates Little Nemo was amazing. I have some books of collected strips.