Every time someone tail gaits me, and eventually zips around me speeding into the foreground, I always try to make a note of their license place number, so that if I see a car that looks like theirs stopped up ahead by a cop when I pass it, I can have the extreme pleasure of … Read more
A Legal Lad podcast that I listened today was addressing the question: “From a legal perspective, who owns the baseball that Barry Bonds hit for his 756th home run?” Is it… Major League Baseball? They sponsored the event, purchased the ball for the game, and possessed the ball before the game. The San Francisco Giants? … Read more
Thanks to my friend and reader, Kathy, in Texas for this. I just love the whole notion of it. The fact that he (Oscar Wilde) was gay, or paederastic as it were, has nothing to do with my liking it. But it doesn’t hurt… Oscar Wilde was a poseur and what he said was never necessarily … Read more
I worked from home today, but have to admit that I didn’t get much IBM work done. I will have to make up for it over the weekend. Grrrr! During lunch I ran to CECE to drop off a box of items for Patti to take to sell in this Saturday’s Cat Angels‘ garage sale. … Read more
Most times when I see someone who died young in the obituaries, and I google their name, I come up with a fatal traffic accident report, if anything. Every once in a while though, something interesting happens like seeing something articulated like this that happened to the person just a few weeks before they died: … Read more
I worked from home today on Joe’s edit of an ITIM adapter installation and configuration guide. Late in the afternoon, and before class, I ran three errands: to Blockbuster in Cameron Village to rent the first movie (of two) that we have to watch this semester in ENG 515, to Karen Lacey’s office in the … Read more
From the profile of a LiveJournal friend of one of my LiveJournal friends, a link to a blog called 5ives… 5ives is a collection of lists of five things. It is written by a person called Merlin Mann — a stony recluse who probably lives in a tree somewhere in Northern California. Little is known … Read more
Last night I fell asleep at 10:00PM, woke up at 12:30AM, tossed and turned until 1:15, got up and read until 3:30, reset my alarm from 6AM to 8AM, fell back asleep, and woke up at 7:30AM this morning. Annoying. I have a friend who on occasion has asked me, “Do these pants make my … Read more
Even though I wasn’t out very late last night, I gloriously slept in this morning, my alarm waking me up at 10:00. I received two “writing affirmations” via e-mail today. Writing affirmations are particularly powerful for me, not only because they affirm what I’m passionate about, but because they often totally surprise me. You just … Read more
Instead of just whining about that field on the form in my yesterday’s blog entry rant, I decided to do something about it, so I wrote to the guy who runs the website. Here is our e-mail exchange (I’m in yellow; he’s in blue): Hello, I hope you will take this in the vein in … Read more