The Miller Family

Author: telmiller

  • To Megan on her initiation into Alpha Phi

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    Parents were asked to write a note to their daughter to be read at the new initiates’ presentation. Her Big Sister, Elena Ortiz, did a wonderful job of reading it yesterday. When you were just a fresh little babyWe hoped you’d grow up big and smart, maybeBathing you nightly and dressing you brightlyRaising you well,…

  • Peace descends on the Miller family home

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    I was going over our phone bill the other day, and considered for a moment what we were getting for our $50/month contribution to AT&T for our home phone service.  I realized we were essentially paying for the benefit of a relentless onslaught of telemarketers and pollsters intruding on what precious little time I get…

  • Watermelon Martini

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    Another drink discovery from the lobby bar at The Roger. 2.5 oz vodka3-4 watermelon balls 1/2 oz St GermainDash of agave syrupDash of lime juice…into a shaker, served up, garnish w/ more watermelon ball “olives” Finally, a use for a melon baller. You do own a melon baller, right?

  • Cucumber Vesper

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    The Roger was our occasional pied-a-terre in New York when our daughter was moving to school there. After a busy day of touring Parsons, or getting moved in to a new dorm, it felt great to settle into one of the big couches in the lobby of The Roger and have a Cucumber Vesper. From…

  • Big bad data

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    A few months ago, I noted that LinkedIn seems to have a simple and not very thoughtful algorithm for recommending job opportunities to me.  Ebay similarly seems to be using their Big Data capabilities like a blunt instrument. Blunt Instrument – …it was 3:30 in the morning, and he thought he heard the opening of…

  • Cocktails in Paris – La fin de la sécheresse

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    Order a Martini in France and God only knows what you’ll get. The only certainty is that it will not have 8 parts gin to 1 part dry vermouth. Over the years when traveling to France, I can content myself with excellent glasses of wine, champagne and even the beer is quite good. But sometimes…

  • Hello LinkedIn, “Have we met?”

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    Sometimes, the use of profiling and big data on the web can be kind of creepy.   Like this morning when I happened to search some news about a class action suit against Coach for demanding customers’ email addresses.  Googled “Coach lawsuit” and followed a link to an ABC Local News article, and there was…

  • Goodbye GOP

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    I’ve been a Republican for the first 27 years of my voting life, but I’m disgusted with the direction of the GOP today. What was once a group that represented the principles of small government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise has been infiltrated by an assortment of extremists, fanatics, haters, and obstructionists. Our economy is…

  • Don’t deny me internet

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    I’ve spent several hours this weekend trying to fix the internet. No, not fixing the Internet, like fomenting twitter protests against Google’s disregard of my privacy settings in Safari nor fighting moronic legislation like SOPA.  I just needed to get the bits flowing into and out of the house. Around the Miller household, access to…

  • Scariest thing invades our house

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    The kids were still awake when I went to bed last night. Before my head hit the pillow, I heard a shriek down the hall. I jumped out of bed to see what was the problem. The girls were trapped down at the far end of the hallway, unable to get down the stairs to…