While carpooling to work today, we stopped at a traffic light. Bored, I glanced over to the neighboring Jack in the Box restaurant and noticed a small bird flitting around. I didn’t take much notice until I saw what the bird was chasing; a two-inch-long piece of a straw wrapper.
I can’t get enough whiteboards. At home, I have several, one covering most of one of the walls of my office, the others much smaller and scattered throughout the house and the garage. And at work, I have two small whiteboards on the walls of my cubicle, both of which usually are covered in various [...]
Too many people complain about paying taxes, and yet they blame the government for lack of public health care, underfunded public schools, and other social ills. I’m not one of them.
I’m not exactly someone you’d think of as pro-Microsoft; I’m sure that’s no surprise. Yet, unfortunately, I can’t afford to be totally anti-Microsoft, either — it’s just way too pervasive in our lives today to avoid altogether.
I hadn’t emptied the trash folder of my email in a few days, so just for the heck of it I tallied some numbers from a random sampling of 100 of the spam emails.
I am “The Chosen One” — at least that’s what my fortune cookie said last night. But, where’s the fortune?
Deprived of my normal drink, I bought a 20-ounce soda in a plastic bottle today from the cafeteria at work, and just happened to glance at the nutritional label. Well, at least this rambling is somewhat educational to those not totally immersed in federal legal code.
I’m not convinced that the Webster’s dictionary on my desk has gotten the definition of “friend” quite right.
On June 4, 1996, the maiden flight of the European Space Agency Ariane 501 rocket engaged its self-destruct mechanism 39 seconds after takeoff, disintegrating itself and its four-satellite payload.
We just got back from driving down to Southern California for a small, intimate wedding. It was one of the best weddings I’ve been to, but why did this one feel so special?
