Andrew Gilhooley's Blog
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Category: Personal Reflections
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Writing a blog like this, I tend to spend a lot of time focusing on the past, whether it is my own history, local history for the area where I grew up, or that of culture or technology. In doing this, I notice some curious effects of this mental time-travel. One of the most noticeable…
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A little while ago, I was in my local branch of Trader Joe’s supermarket and happened to mention to the young woman scanning my groceries that at one time the store used to share the building with a branch of Blockbuster Video. She said that she had heard about it, but could not remember it…