Gene Weingarten’s article in the Washington Post Magazine this weekend, Why Not the Worst? was excellent. It’s a profile of Battle Mountain, Nevada, the armpit of America. Really, it sounds just wonderful. From the gigantic BM whitewashed on the hill to the delapidated downtown, it sounds really… armpittarific. But, that’s not all. It’s really a […]
Never buy sushi in bulk from a guy with a plastic hat at Costco who swears it’s really tasty I wish TiVo had a playlist feature. I want the “Max, sit and watch this while I do X.” list of Blue’s Clues and other things TiVo’s recorded. This one’s for Jodi: If you’re a company, […]
You can tell everything you want to know about him from the way walks: short clipped fast steps, his heels pounding the floor with a slap. He wears the corporate casual wardrobe like a uniform. His khaki Dockers pressed to a crease in the front, his oxford shirts in several solid muted colors, afraid to […]
Is it wrong to goof off at work on a day you were supposed to have off but had to cancel because off last minute requirements and changes needed on a project that all of a sudden became the top priority?
How can you tell your sinus infection is gone?
At work, I deal with our QA (it stands for Quality Assurance for the unitiated) group almost daily. When I make changes to any of our search products, I have to give the QA folks the code and then fix any bugs they find before it can go into production. The QA process is weird. […]
I am now on a quest. Since I started this site, started checking search engines for it, and other people have found me because of the domain name, I’ve become fascinated by all the Lawvers in the world that I never knew existed. I guess that wouldn’t surprise a “Smith”, “Brown”, or “Black”. Lawver’s not […]
I just found out that this big evil project that’s been the bane of my existence since August is clearing QA today. It means I’m done, done, done for a while. No more bugs to fix. YES!!
Monkeybutt, and the joys of being 10. It reminds me of walking home from school in Iceland. The school and our apartment house were about 150 yards apart across a rocky field (they call it “tundra”, which is the perfect word for it). There were a couple of us who went to the school (A.T. […]
Government says women have no right to drug (from Salon). Wow… and I thought we were bad.