"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
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 […]
What, you’re not going to InterHash? We were going, but a year ago we realized that unless we went straight to Cardiff and then straight home, it would be far too expensive a trip. To do the things we wanted to do, which included a tour of Scotland and a visit to Donna’s family in […]
Is it just me, or did the lowest common denominator just slingshot into the lead on the back straightaway of this racetrack we call life? Donna and I both had frustrating days and neither of us wanted to cook, so we went to Hooters for wings and beer. Yeah, I know, if you want to […]
From the Washington Monthly: THE BAND PLAYS ON….Among the 5,000 reservists called up for duty last week are two trumpeters, one trombonist, four clarinetists, three saxophone players, an electric bass player and a euphonium player: “Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?” [Representative Vic] Snyder asked Gen. Richard A. Cody, the […]
A fellow motorcyclist wrote me: A bunch of years ago, I had an AF accident investigator tell me that when looking into the cause of an aircraft accident, they would frequently attribute a crash to pilot error (who was dead) and not blame the living (ground crew/ co-crew) unless it was blantently obvious and no […]