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Or so my ESP of Everything (ESPoE) tells me

This article appeared word for word in the Daily Local News on Monday, seemingly stealing it from some techie website and passing it off as news we can use.   There couldn’t possibly have been one person reading the Local who read it past the first sentence:   "To help service providers reduce operating expenses and drive new revenue streams embracing the Internet of Everything (IoE), Cisco ( NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced it has added the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) to its Evolved Services Platform (ESP), marking another key milestone in the company's network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined-networking (SDN) strategy."   OK, now, without going back to look, tell me what these initials stand for: IoE WAE ESP – (Wrong!) NFV SDN And going forward, there is only one of those that you’ll ever notice again. And I predict you’ll hear/see it over and over and over: The oh-so-cute-by-half IoE. Someone somewhere is oh-

Hershey Happy. Thanks, Bruce!

I went to see Bruce Springsteen for the idon’tknowhowmany-th time last Wednesday night in Hershey with my sister Laurie and my friend Jim Burger and I’ve been wanting to write about it ever since. As Laurie kept pointing out gleefully that night, it was amazing how many 20-somethings were there, and not just there, but singing along.   And so, on this, the 40 th anniversary of one of the most famous, maybe THE most famous, reviews ever written about Rock and Roll, I think it’s safe to say, I saw Rock and Roll future and its name is (still) Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time. Funny – I wrote most of the entry below before I went back to find Jon Landau’s exact quote, and I had forgotten about the second sentence above about needing to feel young (geez, he was only 27 when he wrote that and I’m 30 years older than that!). In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen that sentence before,

And what's all this I hear about less beans being a bad thing. I don't like beans, and I WANT less of them!

I'm really   thrilled that same-gender marriage is finally now legal in PA, but I won't believe discrimination against gays has ended until I stop seeing the Cornish Gay Men listed on fancy restaurant menus. (Sorry. Trev and I came up with that one together the other night.)