You know things are going pear-shaped when there’s all kinds of stuff, nonsense, and news happening in my life, and I’m too damn busy to bother mentioning it here. I read this last week but didn’t mention it before: ginmar’s unit is slowly making its way homeward. She mentioned that they’d reached Kuwait on some unspecified date, and on another unspecified date they’ll head Stateside. This is a very good thing. Kevin Sites has added new posts and pictures documenting the tsunami and its aftermath, this time from Indonesia. In the meantime, what have I got to say for myself?…
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Yes, David and I attended the DSL Reports event at Dave and Busters and lived to tell the tale. Here the “Welcome DSL Reports” screen is clearly visible from the monitor in front of the restrooms, which made an odd kind of sense at the time. I won some coupons at some game, but then left my prizes behind. Actually, the noise and chaos and smoke (the whole place allows smoking) finally got to me in the end. And why, why, why no pinball machines at a game arcade? That’s just crazy. Most of the games are these stupid quasi-gambling…
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Humorist Adam Felbers noted that at the recent commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Vice President Cheney represented this country by dressing for a winter duck hunt in Wyoming. All the other heads of state and dignitaries were wearing somber, dark overcoats suitable for wearing to funerals or other sad memorials. Besides, if those high and mighty mucky-mucks had been suddenly attacked by a flock of particularly ornery ducks, only one amongst ’em would’ve been dressed appropriately to do anything about it. And then who’d be the “embarrassment?” Huh? Are vicious, freedom-hating terrorducks going to wait…
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Thanks to Joey the Accordion Guy, those of us who don’t watch Faux News can enjoy the fun when one of their less-adept anchors tangles with a person of education, wit, and a sense of historical context. There’s video there, too. In this case, that person would be Judy Quinn, contributing editor of Vanity Fair. She proceeds to take the air out of a hapless Faux News anchor in such a way that the anchor barely feels the needle slipping in and deflating her head. Can you spot it? I did! Here’s the transcript: Fox News: We were noticing all…
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Yet another personality test, except with Wackiness! Wackiness: 76/100 Rationality: 30/100 Constructiveness: 72/100 Leadership: 40/100 You are a WECF–Wacky Emotional Constructive Follower. This makes you a Candle burning at both ends. You work until you drop, and you play until you can stand to work again. You have so much enthusiasm that you can find it hard to control on your own, and you appreciate the guidance that channels your energy and lets you be your best. In a relationship, you require lots of attention and support. You often over-contribute and end up feeling depleted and cheated. You may benefit…
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New York-Lagos, which would not have garnered my wager as a likely candidate for such a premiere, is considered a highly lucrative market. “Our Lagos service will be highly attractive to Nigerian and American transatlantic travelers,” said Continental CEO Larry Kellner in a statement. “Particularly executives in energy-related industries.” The route was previously covered by the long-embattled Nigeria Airways, which finally closed its doors in 2003. Nigeria, by the way, was ranked the world’s third most corrupt nation by a watchdog organization called Transparency International. The group says 40 percent of the country’s petroleum income is stolen or squandered by…
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Saturday, snow. Sunday, more snow overnight. We went cross-country skiing Saturday and encountered a kind of weird snowmobiler who, muffled all up in his helmet like Kenny, seemed to be offering to set track for us. We skiied along the treeline for a while, and when we ran out of trees, ran right into the teeth of the blizzard. About 10 seconds into that, and we decided to turn around and head back. We got about 40 minutes’ worth of skiing out of it, so not bad, but not really great conditions. Maybe next time we’ll try one of the…
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No, it’s not a particularly tall drink, it’s a way o of putting web content in 3 columns in a way that might load better no matter what web browser you use. A conversation with my mom-in-law makes me think I might have to come up with a better, more fluid layout for the (cough) somewhat speed- and display-challenged setup she’s currently using. So here’s a new 3-col layout via CSS method to check out. Found at culturekitchen
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I just took this picture of my husband David drinking a companionable glass of wine a short time after I finally arrived home. There was lots of snow, and thus a lot of slow, careful traffic. It was one of “those” days at work, also. So the wine was very welcome. And hey presto! I’m in a much better mood now. David’s mom is learning the joys of websurfing. I thought she might like to see her son in almost real time.
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David and I had a discussion very much like this just the other day. This surprises me — not at all, reading the requirements. They want a combination half-time researcher, half-time developer, half-time sysadmin, half-time web designer, half-time project manager, half-time librarian, and half-time information architect. That’s just a few too many halves; of course they didn’t find anybody! That’s the kind of job somebody grows into, if it can be done at all by a single person (and I’m not sanguine, not sanguine at all). The kind of person they want — if she exists, she isn’t unemployed, I…