In response to my blog entry yesterday, a colleague of mine, Steve, said: “Ahh yes—Vitality—this will be the most overused word at IBM in 2008. But maybe we can get rid of 2007’s “Cadence” and “Guidance”—or once during a particularly dull call—”Guidance Cadence” (as a noun).” This response did a few things: (1) It cracked … Read more
I worked from home this morning, and dialed into a conference call from 12:00 to 1:00, which was lame. It was a “Professional Vitality Session” about Embedded User Help, but it was neither embedded nor helpful—discuss. The last ten minutes particularly sucked as they were doing Q&As, and you couldn’t hear half the questions and … Read more
One of my recent favorites from indexed blog: As Hugh over at Bible Versus says: Dolly Parton. And Amy Sedaris. Perfection. I had intended to go pick up my new glasses today, but since I want to go into the office tomorrow anyway, I decided to wait and get them then—seeing how my eye doctor’s … Read more
Today’s mail inspired a onesentence.org entry: Libra Baby The envelope in today’s mail that I thought was going to be my first Christmas card turned out, in fact, to be my last birthday card. Tags: belated | birthday | Christmas | Card A birthday card from my ex-wife, with a $50 iTunes gift certificate in it. … Read more
I worked form home today and had an “emergency edit” come in after lunch, which I worked on until about 4:00. Tonight in Rhetoric of Science and Technology class, we discussed our final postings from the electronic class discussion board. Andrew A. was the summarizer, and he did a fine job considering the digressing mess we’ve become … Read more
Just in case anyone needs a screen cleaner for their laptop or PC. Second thoughts, would work for a Mac, too. I was up at 8:30, after a refreshing twelve-hour sleep! After futzing around all morning, I finally made it out to the Cameron Village Library to do some studying. I decided to try this place … Read more
I got up at 9 this morning, and did ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology reading and devising my final three discussion board responses. I started off the final posting as follows: I’m not going to get all nostalgic and wistful thinking about how, remarkably, after randomly ending up reading this one of our three … Read more
I spent most of my day today at Helios, beginning the work on my final paper in ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology. Choose a controversial scientific or technological event, current or historical, and discuss it from a rhetorical standpoint. Find several different articles and analyze the audience, purpose, language, and so forth. On … Read more
Okay in the obituaries, there’s a lady who was a big contributors to the scouts, and it says, “She became the first woman in Occoneechee Council to receive the prestigious ‘Silver Beaver’ award.” Oh no they dih-ent giver her beaver an award! Of course you can’t read that without thinking of the classic Leave it to … Read more
Even though I’ll be under a tremendous amount of pressure over the next three weeks, I’m loving my life right now, and particularly today for some reason. I filled out five cards this morning, and dropped three off at the post office on the way to Helios. In line at Helios behind a North Raleigh Stepford … Read more