Today, at one of the bus stops on Gorman Road, I looked to the left and saw this little “cottage” with one window beside the door and a sign in it that made me laugh out loud: At yet another stop on Gorman, the “cell phone lady,” whom I introduced yesterday, you know, the one … Read more
Someone on Twitter pointed to this video today. I love it. “Rosa sat, so Martin could walk Martin walked so Barack could run Barack ran so all our children could fly.” Today was not a good bus day. It started with the No. 12 Method Road bus arriving not with such indication on the L.E.D. sign … Read more
Robert was up before me this morning, and had coffee ready when I got up. Sweet. We listened to more of When You’re Engulfed in Flames. Hilarious! I checked my cell phone voice messages mid-afternoon, and found a message from my aunt’s stepdaughter telling me that my aunt is trying to enlarge some pictures I … Read more
Snap, snap from a Walmart greeter! A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into Walmart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. The Walmart Greeter said pleasantly “Good morning, and welcome to Walmart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?” The woman stopped yelling long enough to … Read more
While devising yesterday’s blog entry, and including all of the TED talks I watched last night, I listened to this one in the background: Steven Strogatz: How things in nature tend to sync up (21:58) Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a … Read more
After a late start, leaving Raleigh at about 9:20 instead of 8:30 like I wanted to, I had an uneventful ride to Greenville. I didn’t expect mom and dad to be there until 11 or noon, but when I checked in with my sister on the way, she said, “They supposedly left Jacksonville at 8:30; … Read more
Irony is a multi-faceted rhetorical device, as explained by GrammarGirl (On video! So that’s what she looks like.) using a Sarah Palin event to illustrate the plethora of considerations involved in producing, and understanding, irony: We had turkey sausage patties on Portuguese sweet rolls this morning for breakfast, and ham salad and Swiss on rye … Read more
Oh my goodness what a lazy day. I actually did spend a little time straightening up, going through the mounds of paper that had accumulated (don’t you love that non-accusing passive voice?) on my table. Okay, I’ll make it active voice. “…going through the mounds of paper that my lazy ass has thrown onto the … Read more
I’ve seen this in a plethora of venues on the web now, from news items, to blogs, to tweets on Twitter, and a lot of them have been from straight people, which is encouraging. On the outside chance you haven’t seen it: Keith Olbermann: Special Comment on Proposition 8 As expected my arms hurt when … Read more
This lady’s comments just crack me up! At work today, I attended a two-hour communications meeting in the morning, which was very interesting, and at which I learned a lot. I attended a two-hour team meeting with Rhonda and Jude, in which we got a lot done. Between my being gone for two weeks and … Read more