Yes, It Is All About Me, Why Do You Ask?
September 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
* What if you won a prize [scroll way down to find Computerworld] and nobody noticed?
I faux-pout, or mostly faux-pout, as my co-workers were quite sweet in emailing their congratulations. Also, they are quite sick to death of that story. Even so, what crumbs fall from the table of...
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Watch this. It will make you feel better.
September 08, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
How many hours of lost productivity is Sarah Palin responsible for? Admit it: whether you’re gloating or loathing, you’re getting precious else done.
I’m not going to let her take up another nanosecond of my neurons after this, but three bits to share:
* Normally I hate when people send me...
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Sarah Palin: Yeah, I’m Going There
August 31, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
UPDATE: And the New York Times weighs in on the same topic. Only with, like, more reporting and analysis and stuff like that.
Normally I don’t wade into political waters, especially when so vastly many other writer/bloggers are already peeing in that pool, but as the writer of the definitive...
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Ordinary
August 11, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Today I woke up early (6:30) to rain. More rain. I made coffee, fetched the paper off the driveway still in my sleep shirt (the top to a fancy pair of Books Brothers PJs that I bought T but that he never wore) so I could see if it was ever going to stop raining. It wasn’t.
I worked for awhile,...
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Doesn’t fish. Isn’t a cat.
August 02, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
A couple of years ago I was walking Pip on a really dank and gray November morning. We crossed the culvert at the end of our street where a little stream trickles into the mighty Swellville river (that’s a joke—the river flows so slowly it’s legally in danger of losing its status as a moving body...
