Irene kindly drove me into the IBM Austin office today, which was a longer ride than I’d anticipated. After some initial drama finding building 901, I hooked up with Mary, and our first deed of the morning was to get me a temporary badge for the day. I completely forgot about bringing mine with me … Read more
Looks like I will just have to squint through my bifocals… Hello, Currently, a Large Print edition of A Prayer for Owen Meany has not been published. I hope this information helps you. AskALibrarian Or, I guess I could get one of these… It’s a Whole Different Story in the Supermodel Car Four-year-old boy: Mommy, … Read more
The traveling bar bus is really something, but in the end, it’s all about the bottom line. [
After all the years I’ve been flying, today I changed my seat preference from window to aisle. Yu-Gi-Oh: I’ll Play One Card Face Down, and This Fag Hag In Defensive Mode Asian girl: I can’t believe you blocked me from Galen. Hawaiian boy: Well, he’s bisexual, so he’s fair game to both of us. Hipster … Read more
This just tickles my funny bone to no end for some unexplainable reason—perhaps because I used to work at Burger King. Today at work, we had a 15-minute “organizational announcement” teleconference meeting from 2:00-2:15 that repeated, virtually word for word, an e-mail that was sent out last week announcing the changes. In the immortal words … Read more
Today I noticed that the tags can sometimes act as “meta-information” in these postings. This is particularly true of the first one here. Four of my recent favorites from One Sentence: Dearly Defeated On the other side of that door, just moments ago, I heard my life getting that much more screwed up. tags: sex … Read more
Would you believe it if someone told you that they could take a standard 3×5 index card and cut a hole in it that is large enough for them to fit their body through it? This guy does just that in his 2:35-minute video. I worked remotely again today. I worked on a challenging edit … Read more
What is “Begging the Question?” “Begging the question” is a form of logical fallacy in which an argument is assumed to be true without evidence other than the argument itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is … Read more
Just this Saturday, Robert and I were discussing the shopping carts that “wander away” from a Food Lion near my house. The conversation started when we saw a couple pushing one up the sidewalk to the corner at which we were turning, and then after making the turn seeing two more of them—carts, not people—waiting … Read more
Very, very interesting… What messages does our society give African American children about their value and worth as human beings? In her documentary, A Girl Like Me, teen filmmaker Kiri Davis conducts interviews with her peers to explore the impact and consequences of these messages. She then re-conducts Dr. Kenneth Clark’s “doll test” with young … Read more