I took last week off from work, both to avoid the confusion & malady that was the DNC and its various road closures that would have made my commute both troublesome and potentially dangerous (it is my experience that, on the whole, Obama supporters are awful drivers), and to give my brain the necessary rest [...]
I’ve spent my entire morning trying to figure this out… but on my way into work, I saw a guy driving on the highway while talking on the phone & eating whipped cream out of a pressurized can, spouted directly into his mouth.
Speechless, I am.
So, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported recently that safe kids are becoming fat kids. Worth a read. But more important than the article itself is the premise that introduces the concept: the ubiquitous rubber matting that covers playgrounds was recently exposed to an intense heat wave in New York. This caused concerned uber-parents to [...]
I remember when I had hopes and dreams and aspirations. I wanted to do something important. I wanted what I did with my time to mean something.
What happened?
I’ve had some aggression problems over the past few months. I wanted to blame it on the commute to work, or the unbearable weather over the past few [...]
As you know, or don’t know, or don’t really care, I’m a motorcyclist who does not own a car. Which means my daily trek from downtown Denver to Louisville (~24 miles each way) is done on a bike, my cane bungee corded to the side and my backpack on the back seat. On really hot [...]
I don’t ask for much.
But when I go to a special T-shirt store or something, I want to be greeted by at least one T-shirt with the design on the front featuring a unicorn fighting a panda.
Is this so damn much to ask for?
Noise.
As you know, I work in the software development arena, and I’m constantly writing code, tap tap tapping on my keyboard, being bombarded by phone calls, emails, personal visits from confused coworkers…
This site outputs white noise through your browser. I came in this morning with a nasty headache. I popped this on, moved the slider [...]
Hi George,
You don’t know me, we’ve never met–you’ve never even heard of me. In fact, since I’m writing this letter to you after you died yesterday, I can wager a good deal of cash that you’ll never hear of me, and we’ll never meet. I heard about your death this morning, going through my daily [...]
Today I quite nearly died on my way into work. As I was heading down a hill towards a somewhat busy intersection, a woman on the opposite side decided to try to turn left before I got there. In her haste to get across (perhaps egged on by the person she was talking to on [...]
That’s how much the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped today. Just over 3%. Me, I don’t really care. I have no stocks anymore, so I have nothing, really, to lose directly from dives like that.
But I went to CNN when I got their ‘Breaking News’ email regarding this. And I really wanted to see a [...]
I’m absolutely all for making things usable and accessible to everyone. I like websites to be semantically coded, I like audio books for the blind, and I get a sour taste in my mouth when I can’t get a ramp to get up stairs.
But there are two urinals in the bathroom closest to my cube. [...]
You know it’s pretty much a wash of a day when the most important, interesting thing that happens to you is that you move to a new cube. That’s definitely a signal that your evening better be a lot more vibrant. You can’t end a day with the high point of, “Now my monitors have [...]
So it’s been one of those weekends, I’m afraid. Lost in the wilderness of free time. My dear friend Derek leaves for Scotland this morning for his 4 years at St. Andrews, paid just to be clever and write philosophical papers and such. An open-ended position, and I am seething with envy. We played video [...]
Once or twice a month, here at the office, we have important people who come to visit. We are warned ahead of time and asked to dress in “business casual.” This removes jeans & t-shirts from my wardrobe. It also removes piercings.
Now, I’m sorta okay with the attitude of “looking successful,” despite how disingenuous it [...]
So this morning, on my ride into the office, I was stopped at a red light behind a woman who was putting on makeup.
So, I leaned on my horn, startling her enough to draw a line from her left eye out to her ear. I couldn’t possibly be more happy with the result.
Q: Why do [...]