One hour to go, and the perfect time to review another bygone year:
Hired at Flextronics, started this blog, Brent and Monica got married, revitalized the web campaign at Flex, walked the Golden Gate Bridge, got my terrific PowerShot digital camera, managed to enjoy two seasons of both Survivor and Amazing Race and one season of [...]
I completed another minor life goal today: after eight and a half hours, I completed a 13-mile trek through rugged wilderness environment, rock-jumping swollen winter streams, sustaining minor injuries, seriously wondering whether or not I would return that evening, all in the combined names of geocaching and the memory of a good friend.
Today would have [...]
Many, many moons ago, having loved cryptograms and various logic puzzles as a kid, I came up with my own code system that I thought unbreakable. To this day, I think it’s still pretty good, and with a few modifications for situations of which I had not previously thought at that young age, along with [...]
‘Tis the night before Christmas and all through the world
Families enjoy the sight of tinsel unfurled;
Pretty lights on trees; warm fires that are cozy;
The cold winter breeze making cheeks that are rosy.
I’ve spent hours this week in traffic and the mall,
The bustle and crowds, I get sick of it all.
I asked my teen daughter her [...]
Dear Sir,
I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block number 3 of the accident reporting form, I put “trying to do the job alone” as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully, and I trust that the following details will be [...]
A difficult effort, but I managed to stay off the Internet for most of Wednesday and Thursday, avoiding any news, previews, or spoilers of the Amazing Race or Survivor. Since our holiday party was on Wednesday evening, we taped AR and waited until the next day to see it. Wow! An evening of finales! No [...]
OK, I’m in the mood for a good stirring up!
Having reread the myriad responses (both idiotic and intelligent) to the Those Stupid Americans… article stemming from a vast group consisting of Americans and their mainly European and Australian counterparts, I am consistently lead back to a single point: many cultures unjustly despise individual Americans for [...]
Man, Empire Earth cheats!
I played a long game today, a stress-relief from life’s rigors. Seven teamed-up hard computers on large islands on a medium-size map, all against me, starting in Prehistoric and ending in Imperial, my favorite configuration. Reasonably challenging, yet a victorious outcome is always certain.
Now, I already knew the computers cheat on a [...]
I saw a commercial just a few minutes ago. It attempted to introduce a new verb to the American-English language: swiffering. It made me think of all the other recent new words and phrases, and new meanings and connotations that have been added over the last few years, some even sooner than that (in no [...]
What do you call a map guide to Alcatraz? A contour map.
Why was longitude boiling mad? Because it was 360 degrees.
Why are maps like fish? Both have scales.
Where do lines of equal pressure go to relax? In isobars.
What is smarter, longitude or latitude? Longitude, because it has 360 degrees.
Why do paper maps never win at [...]
