Our litigious society: A warning on a small tractor that reads “Danger: Avoid Death” has been chosen as the nation’s wackiest warning label by an anti-lawsuit group. The $250 second place was given to Carrianne, Jacob and Robby Turin of Greensburg, Pa., for a label they found on an iron-on T-shirt transfer that warns: “Do … Read more
Two favorite entries from PostSecret today: This is the first video entry of a secret, and as it says on their web site, “it’s haunting”: I worked on my presentation of my final paper, which I’m giving tomorrow night in our last class, after which we’re all going out drinking, including the professor. It’s in … Read more
At work we’ve been collecting food for the Heart of Carolina Food Drive for the holidays. People have been taking home the brown bags provided in the lobby, filling them up, and returning them back to work in the morning. I brought mine in on Tuesday. This is what the lobby looked like this morning: … Read more
I worked on my final paper for Rhetoric of Science and Technology today, and was pleasantly surprised by how it progressed. Before I knew it, it was 4:30, and time to shower and head to class. Our penultimate Rhetoric of Science and Technology class was good tonight. Both Andrews presented, as well as Lindsay and … Read more
Today is World AIDS Day. Hugs to my beautiful friend Adam who died in August of 2002. I spent the majority of the day holed up in the NCSU campus library, where I had hoped to get a key to one of the two Graduate Student Study Rooms, but both of them were booked all … 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
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
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