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Chicago’s Eastern-most suburb…Snippets of Life in Kalamazoo by Tom Lyford

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Thu
23
Apr '09

How nice is Warner Bros.?

Not normally a fan of big media, but for a small fee ($4.95 per disk), they will convert my WB HD DVD movies to BD! All you need to do is send them the HD DVD sleeve and the money and they will send back to me the BD version of the disk. Check out [...]

Tue
9
Dec '08

Bensenville, IL

Forbes has an interesting article on-line about “America’s Fastest Dying Towns” and Bensenville is #1. Living there almost half my life, I think I have a little understanding of the town. Here is my “comment” to the article: Posted by tslyford | 12/09/08 09:30 PM EST Bensenville used to be a typical midwestern farming / [...]

Tue
27
Nov '07

EDI – Circa 1992

I just found this article about TSI International out on the internet. These were the “good old days”. I remember talking to Hank, Bill, Lewis and Brenda ( I miss these people ) about this and asking how come we couldn’t preconfigure the system and use the tool (I forget the name) to extract the [...]

Thu
26
Jul '07

NO Pizza for you at Kalamazoo Panera Breads

Just got done picking up dinner at Panera and I thought I’d ask the manager about the crispanis that I’ve seen advertised on billboards in the Chicago area. A crispini is basically a small pizza. I’ve never had one, but they look good and it would be nice to have something other than the sandwiches [...]

Tue
24
Jul '07

Funerals and Photography

I subscribe to a photography newsgroup and the latest discussion has been on taking photos at funerals. Some of the comments have been from professionals who would have no problems doing this ($$$) or others that just can’t see doing this ever. Me, I think I’m in the middle. I don’t care if people came [...]