My favorite tweet from today: chrisblake Googling the Web’s biggest regrets: http: //tinyurl.com/63xg3m about 1 hour ago What do you know? A heart-warming story made the news… “Their names immortalized (Boston Globe) Ironworkers spray paint names of young cancer patients onto the beams of the Yawkey Center going up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.” Click … Read more
I caught the city bus early this morning—at 7:25 instead of the regular 7:55 or 8:25 that I usually catch. I took a seat toward the back of the bus, where across from me sat a man and a woman. The man had long, dirty-blond hair, which covered the sides of his face, which was … Read more
My favorite tweet from today: melissasantos dear god, make me a bird so i can shit on this bitch’s head My work day started off with a staff meeting from 9:00–10:00. After a half-hour break, I conducted an interview of a colleague who recently put on an Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Fair, with … Read more
I sat in on my boss’s boss’s meeting this morning in the place of my boss who was tending to some medical issues with her mother. It’s always interesting to get another perspective of the workplace. Following that, I had a meeting with someone who totally forgot about our meeting and had left for lunch, … Read more
Affirmations of love from two of the most important people in my life. From Robert: Thank you for being in my life and sharing so many very special times together. I love and adore you. SMOOCHES!! And the sentiments in a card from my sister: As the years go by, we begin to learn … Read more
A definite passive-aggressive bus passenger play this morning. Things like this always fascinate me about people—what they could possibly be thinking and what in their lives has led to such a behavior pattern. So, at one of the stops at which both the Wolfline (NCSU’s bus line) and the CAT (the city’s bus line) stop, … Read more
OMG. ROTFLMAO. This is hysterical. I just love Ellen. It was hot as Hades on the bus this morning—so hot, in fact, that I had to get up and ask the bus driver to please turn down the heat. I guess new bus riders just have to fumble around to discover things. Today, after riding … Read more
I worked from home today, since I had no meetings and needed to run to my eye doctor’s during lunchtime to get my partially-rimless glasses fixed. I had them hanging from the collar of my shirt on Saturday, and when @justis hugged me at Helios, a wire snapped that holds the lenses in and the right … Read more
We slept in, until close to ten o’clock this morning. Yay. I put on a pot of coffee and made a cheddar, turkey sausage, and ham omelet for us, accompanied by a side order of toast. Pretty good stuff, if I may say so myself. I read a little bit of Stiff this afternoon and … Read more
Why is it that some people can only “see” homosexuality for what it is when it happens to them or someone they love? Pastor Ted Haggard, who was exiled from his Colorado church in 2006 in a gay sex scandal, said this week that the incident has altered his views on religion and the culture … Read more