"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
Going down . . . but not in a good way. My last motorcycle accident was typical in that it happened within five miles of home and involved a cager (car driver) turning left. You try to anticipate cagers turning left into your path, but this one came out of nowhere. I was riding west […]
Who cares if it’s 100°F outside? It’s chili day! Donna and I work Monday through Friday. We take turns cooking easy meals on weeknights. Saturdays we go hashing, then eat out after the trail. Sundays I play in the kitchen, usually preparing a one-dish meal for the evening, perhaps a pot of sauce or stew, […]
When I lived in Glasgow, Montana, there were two towns on the road to Great Falls, Havre and Chauteau. Pronouncing them correctly marked you as an outsider, pitiful and beneath contempt. Havre was “Haver” and Chauteau “Shotto.” Watching the Olympics, I can’t help thinking of Melpomene Road in Tucson, locally pronounced “Mel-po-mean.” Of course it’s […]
My friend Baldrick, an English expat working in Saudi Arabia, informs me that my other sites, the Half-Mind Weblog and Half-Mind Catalog, are officially blocked by the Ministry of Information. He and I wondered why. Then, tonight, he told me about another blocked link, this one to the CD cover you see above. Now that […]
The answer: you’ll never be told . . . Read this: Despite 2 Terror Tapes, No Alert Issued on Vegas, Memos Show. Remember the mayor in Jaws? The one who didn’t want tourists to hear about nasty old sharks? The unfortunate thing about stereotypes is that they’re so often true. The United States is just […]
Is your bias showing? Kevin Connors at Sgt. Stryker’s weblog doesn’t approve of John Kerry’s sense of humor. One day last week, while Kerry and Bush were making campaign speeches in Davenport, Iowa, a robber hit three local banks. John Kerry allegedly responded to the news by remarking that both he and the president had […]
Is this typical of a small office? I bet it is . . . I manage a division of 14 people who range in age from 26 to 50. Most are in their 30s. They’re educated, bright, white collar workers: courseware and curriculum designers, graphic artists, computer programmers. Slightly more than half are married, and […]