I didn’t have much planned for New Year’s since I was so focused on Christmas, it practically slipped my mind. I also didn’t finance for it. Since my last minute $900 air ticket, I don’t have much left (well, enough to get myself a new hard drive but that was a need, not an indulgence) [...]
They’re giving away a digital camera.
I had an old Canon A80… actually, I still have it but it’s long in the tooth at two years and 4MP. I almost took it everywhere. I wanted to be one of those people who takes their cameras everywhere because you never know when you’ll see something worthwhile. Actually, [...]
It was nearing 230PM today and my room had been down for half an hour when I was paged. Immediately, all sorts of horrible scenarios came into my head. I would be asked to gather charge sheets. I would be asked to take over for someone else in a room. I would be asked to [...]
Don’t check your calendar. Christmas for me is more than the actual day of. I’ve never skipped the holiday at the old family homestead and I mean to never have to. This year, it took a herculean effort by a couple of other people to get me off. I owe them big thanks. But, today, [...]
I have more of them than the averagest of human beings. I’ve been trying to turn over a new leaf… no, actually I’ve been bitter with the evilness of work lately and obsessed with that and how it’s interfering with my life. But I still have a lot of pet peeves and this is [...]
You? That’s who’s Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Some have called it a cop-out and I have a mind to agree.
The article starts:
The “Great Man” theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” He believed [...]
I’m in the midst of self-pity. It’s been going on for a while now. Whenever I’m in such a midst, I have a tendency to buy things… a lot of things. I was just on the phone with a friend and we both happen to have Motorola Razrs. She was saying something about the phone’s [...]
It’s warm in December. Is that why everyone’s sick? Eerie mist has settled over the city, waiting, waiting, waiting, for icy cold to blow it away.
I know. You’re all tired of my constant complaining about work. But there’s one thing that’s worse than the needy doctors or back-stabbing nurses. It’s the art I used to love and now miss. I used to do all kinds of things like draw and paint and WRITE. Now, the only thing I can do [...]
I haven’t totally adored a band as wholly as I do this one in a while. It isn’t big lyrics or big music and I know they’re not a Great Band, but they sound like they are having so much fun. I don’t know what the reality is, but there’s no much joy in the [...]
The MacHeist promotion reached its zenith today with the announcement of the software bundle that the whole thing was supposed to promote. I was underwhelmed with the bundle. Here’s what it consisted of and here’s what I thought of it:
1. Delicious Library: What the whole use of the term “delicious” is and how it relates [...]
I used to do contract work and I was moving all the time. Actually, not really moving moving, but living out of my suitcase pretty much. I hated the moving, but I loved that I could have the time off that I wanted when I wanted it. I may be going back to that. Recently, [...]