A friend of mine brought the following excerpt from a Tuesday, March 28, 2006 obituary to my attention: Family will receive local friends and relatives Tuesday night from 6-8 p.m. Out of town relatives are not welcome. I worked in a 30-minute walk around campus today as I went there to run two errands: bought … Read more
I retrieved my ATM card today from the credit union in building one, stepped outside the credit union, and got a much needed fix at the ATM machine just outside the door. Ah. A cash infusion. On the way back to my office, I stopped by the IBM Rec Center, and walked for 30 minutes … Read more
I completed this week’s COM 487 Internet & Society reading, “Shibuya Epiphany” by Howard Rheingold, which was very, very interesting and then posted my required blog entry about it. Once again, serendipitously, I had recently listened to a podcast that was exceptionally connected to the reading, and was able to allude to it in my … Read more
Today, I stopped at the ATM machine on the first floor of my building at work. Usually, it sucks my card right in. Today, it started “nibbling” on it — taking in, maybe, a quarter-of-an-inch of it at a time until it was finally all the way in. Then it just sat there. I pressed … Read more
A little etymology on the word homosexual… Though the word ‘homosexual’ has about it a certain venerable quality, contrary to public convictions, the word has neither a long nor distinguished history. Coined in Germany in 1860 by a Hungarian physician named Henkert (using the pseudonym K.M.Kertbeny), it was not introduced into the English language until … Read more
We woke up at 10:32, with a check-out time of 11:00. I called the front desk, “May we have a late check-out of noon, please?” Let me check to see who’s coming into 332 next… Yes, noon, will be fine. We ended up checking out at about 11:40, and were to Pat and John’s just … Read more
I woke up at 9:33 and remembered that the complimentary breakfast ended at 10:00. I brushed my teeth, splashed some water on my face, grabbed my laptop and headed downstairs. I threw a two-pack of mini-sausage biscuits in the microwave after stretching, twisting, and rolling the tiny red print away from the meat and in … Read more
I attended a seminar during lunch today called, “The Accelerated Academy: Research-Based Strategies for Managing E-mail.”
I had a bizarre e-mail exchange today about a question a person in my class asked me yesterday during class. After whispering something to me that I didn’t understand, she slipped me a piece of paper while the professor was lecturing and on it, it said: Let’s hang out. Yes No At the time, I … Read more
I love these four little words in this obituary in today’s N&O: DOROTHY HELEN ENBERG, 83, died Feb. 22, 2006. Services at Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Garner, NC, Mar. 25, 2006 1:00 p.m. Attire: Colors, no black. “That is if you can call a color a tire.” [A deep thought from Brother-Boy.] Class was … Read more