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On the other hand, I’m happy to relate that the bookstores in Campbell still have lots of very comfortable seating, and managed to relieve me of much more money than the ones in Boston.

Last time I was in Boston I ranted about how all the bookstores have been gradually removing all their armchairs, and generally becoming much less nice places to just hang out and read all the books.
It’s gotten worse. Last time, the Borders in the Cambridgeside Galleria had moved almost all its comfortable seats into [...]

I picked up a few magazines in the airport lounge yesterday to read on the plane, including Esquire, a magazine I used to read fairly regularly, but haven’t really read at all in a few years.
It seemed to have quite a few interesting articles, including an interview with Martin McGuinness, and an investigation into [...]

Apparently it took the US Immigration Service a very long time to accept that, because most of the rest of the world write their dates as dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy, their immigration forms should reflect this.
Yesterday, when arriving in Washington, I noticed that hanging in the immigration hall were samples of the forms you have [...]