Okay. I order a lot of stuff online. Books, DVDs, software, linens, you-name-it. No lines, shop when I want, wonderful convenience. That is until some pez-head company finds a way to make this process fail.
One month ago I ordered a keyboard skin for my wife’s iMac. We still don’t have it. After lunch today I [...]
Monthly Archive for September, 2003
Wisdom from Molly Ivins
Posted in social issues on Sep 25th, 2003
Last night Michele and I had the great good fortune to attend a talk given by columnist Molly Ivins. It was invigorating to be in the company of so many like minded people. Ms. Ivins’ talk was at times funny, at time serious. But through out her message was clear: we, the ordinary citizens of [...]
How Do You Spell Relief?
Posted in life on Sep 16th, 2003
Walking Directions from the Shire to Mordor
Posted in life on Sep 16th, 2003
This is too good to pass up: http://www.ooblick.com/text/tomordor/
Sometimes I Don’t Tease Well
Posted in life on Sep 16th, 2003
This morning I sent an e-mail to my wife about the Survivor pool here at work. She likes to participate so I picked a name out of the hat for her too. As the e-mail was written, misconstruing ‘hot’ for ‘hat’ made it sound like I thought her player was hot.
When she teased me about [...]
Where Are We Going?
Posted in life on Sep 15th, 2003
What is at stake
Posted in social issues on Sep 14th, 2003
Emotional Tupperware
Posted in life on Sep 11th, 2003
Periodically when we clean out our refrigerator we discover various tupperware containers whose contents have become biology science experiments. I spent a couple of hours this morning cleaning out my emotional deep freeze and ridding myself of a particularly smelly bit of emotional tupperware.
In talking to Michele about some of the issues we are both [...]
Opus blooms again
Posted in life on Sep 9th, 2003
When I was in college my favorite comic strips were ‘Doonesbury’ and ‘Bloom County.’ It appears that Opus may once again grace the Sunday comics page again.
I can hardly wait.
“You can lead a yak to water, but you can’t teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke”
— [...]
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Posted in nerdliness on Sep 9th, 2003
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