An amusing email exchange, with names changed to protect the innocent (and the abducted):
[...] I’m going to talk with [Y] and see what he thinks of your proposal (as soon as I can find him, I think he was carried off by wild meercats).
[...]
It seems I may not even be able to stay away from school for a year. Next term, one of my favourite* professors will be teaching the one course I really wish I’d been able to take, but didn’t.
* (Yes, I spelled that right. He’s a Brit, after all…)
“Folks, you have to be back when the break is finished. This is… not acceptable.”
–Spoken over the PA system by one of the staffers in the jury duty room, upon discovering that two jurors were not present 14 minutes after the end of break.
Now, off the top of your head: Out of the [...]
I was amused by the New York Public Library’s acronym, and came up with the following slogan. Something tells me it won’t be a hit with their staff:
NYPL — sucking at the teat of knowledge since 1911!
Oh, and I’m keeping track of stuff to check out in NYC on Google Maps. You can follow along here if you’re curious.
WARNING: food-oriented post! No technology references whatsoever! (Okay, maybe one. But it’s pretty dull.)
Day 0 in Brooklyn: taxi ride from the dungheap terminal at JFK* through much urban blight leaves me completely unimpressed. No wifi at the place I’m staying means I’m not able to do much research. Dinner [...]
…for they shall be. I’m about to check in a file named:
db/migrate/087_im_pretty_sure_none_of_these_tutors_were_alive_when_jesus_was.rb