My co-workers tend to put post-its on their office doors when eating lunch. Most of them say “lunching”. I wasn’t sure why the world needed to know exactly why my door was closed, especially since there is no incentive to be honest. I could say “lunching” but actually spend my time with the door...
Reality Level
Why Rush Limbaugh Hates America
I Love America. This includes many pieces of America that, taken individually, I don’t like so much. Some, I loath. But altogether, put it in a big pile, and I’ll keep it. Fight for it. Whatever. Here are just a sampling of the many pieces of America: Giant balls of twine and three-story lava-lamps,...
Twitter Dee, Twitter Dum
So I twittered the other day, while watching Saturday Night Live, that the McGrubber segment should just stop. It’s never been funny, and adding McGuyver and Pepsi, all at once, hasn’t helped. Actually, I Twittered. Capital T to indicate the use of the Twitter social posting service that is gaining on pretty much everything. ...
Business Week Approves of my World of Warcraft Addiction
Turns out that all the time I spend in World of Warcraft is honing my management skills. Business Week did an article on how all the skills used in WoW also apply to making the workplace better and more efficient. I think this is probably true, but have admit that my WoW performance, as...
TSA Comfort
I was reading a Peter King (Sportswriter and Bret Favre spokesperson) column where he complained that the TSA didn’t do the same thing every time at every airport. He wanted the comfort of either being told to always take off his shoes, or never take off his shoes. I think he speaks for most...
Theater and the TSA
Long lines at airports, to get through security, tell us something. They tell us that our government is doing something about terrorism. In fact, the government is mostly crowding travelers into large packs, in the midst of which large carts full of luggage are dragged along. It makes a pretty good target, but nobody...
The War Prayer (a story by Mark Twain)
The War Prayer by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand...
Palin Pardons a Turkey
Turkeys get slaughtered all the time. Come Thanksgiving, it’s going to be Turkey Genocide. We’re okay with that, because we like food, we like getting together with family, and watching football or something. Still, every year, we have our leaders pardon a turkey or two: But Sarah Palin pardons her turkey while behind her,...