So on our last vacation to various points on the Eastern ends of the US and Canada, we passed through Niagara Falls. Which of course made me think of the Three Stooges (“Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned… step by step… inch by inch…”) and thence of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (and if [...]
Added a link to littleyellowdifferent.com. (The link is also little and yellow.)
That’s looking like my boss’s answer to the age-old dilemma. So I’ll probably have LOTS of time off to celebrate my birthday this year! Whee! (=
Which means I need to figure out my own answer to the same question. Do I use this as an excuse to jump right into school, [...]
The text of an email on the Portland Jugglers email list, in its entirety:
Hello PJ’s,
This is Pat and I’d just like to let the group
know that my website is finally up and running!
Webmaster Mike loaded it the other day, he’s the best!
I’d love to hear your guys’s feedback. L8R -pat
[Update 2:30pm: [...]
Awww. Best elopement self-photo ever. (link via Ariel)
Still no word from mister Justin. The boy has a birthday coming up, and there’s no way he’s getting his card on time by now, ’cause I have no idea where to send it! I’m not even sure where he is, except that if he were back in the States for some reason, [...]
Okay, that’s it. That’s the last straw. After another interesting column (this one about how mutual fund managers could use their huge chunks of stock to hold corporations more accountable, except that they don’t), I’m just going to have to link to Arianna Huffington.
Heh. Here’s a Demotivator poster I particularly like:
Dare To Slack
“When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.”
Wearing a kilt automatically gives anyone you meet permission to ask whether you’re wearing underwear.
Try it sometime. Out of all the social functions you’ve been to in your life so far, how many times have you been introduced to someone who then immediately said, “Oh, and by the way, are you wearing underwear today?” [...]
We went down to the Saturday Market today. In between our shopping for various giftses, I patronized two places that weren’t actually Market vendors, and now I have not one but two lovely wrap skirt/sarong thingies, and must now choose which one to wear to the handfasting. (I was going to wear my [...]
I’ve been thinking, in somewhat more than an academic sense, of going back to school. (Heh… I’d apologize for the pun, but I wouldn’t mean it, so why bother?) Thus far, the options I’d considered basically boiled down to these two: should I keep doing programming in the business world, or should [...]
So I was recently reminded of the existence of Shriekback, and of the fact that I own a few of their CDs. I remain impressed by their 1985 CD “Oil and Gold.” This band earns my vote for “Most Literate Rock Band” — who else would use the words “parthenogenesis” and “anacrusis” in [...]
Wow. I remember programming in LOGO. Man. That was in sixth grade!
My writing class is over, but I might just keep the book. There are some marvelous essays in it. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
We went fishing the first morning. I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip [...]
Arianna Huffington has written another good one.
The presentation went well. Knowing the material was, I think, key. I was loud enough for the room and stuck exactly to the time (purely by accident), and people generally had good questions and comments and were quite complimentary afterward. “You have a new career” was probably the nicest comment. Now [...]
While chowing down on lunch today, I was mildly entertained by two fellow customers. Both young men were desperately Caucasian, hyperactive, and wearing turbans. “That’s odd,” I thought, and kept eating. Then I overheard part of a conversation one of them had with someone who asked them about his unusual mode of [...]
So I volunteered to present a trick for the tips & tricks portion of the Portland Access User Group general meeting, and also to give the main presentation in a later month. Never having done any public speaking, I was rather hoping to do the tips & tricks item first, then a more extensive [...]
“Why, of course the people don’t want war … but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship … voice or no [...]
And we’re off to the Recumbent Retreat! (Okay, we have to shower first, but we’ll be off soon.)