apropos of anything

1. They stalk me.
2. They put up “DROPOUT” signs when I quit a class that can teach me nothing.
3. They take great joy in telling me that my fish are dead.
4. They TATTLE on me to their wives.
5. They lend me their ugly sweaters so I have something to wear to ugly sweater contests.
6. They [...]

For the Iraqis, the Palestinians, the Afghanis, and the Sudanese. For the foreign civilians in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. For the soldiers serving overseas and for their families. For my family. For friends. For kindergardeners who eat too much at the free school breakfast because their mothers didn’t make dinner the night before. For anyone [...]

Until today I did not think developers existed who were not familiar with Slashdot.
Then I had a conversation with some of our developers, who shrugged off their ignorance with the excuse that Slashdot is a “Unix thing.”
I don’t think I’ve been this shocked since certain people told me they didn’t know who Dominique Wilkins was.

There is a common theme in L.M. Montgomery books that three o’clock in the morning is the worst hour of the day because that is when all your fears are laid bare and you must face them. Of course she didn’t mean exactly three o’clock so much as some time late at night when [...]

Anyone who reads either Dan or Stuart is familiar with the infamous duplicate data incidents, where their vendor informed them the reason they had duplicate data was because they had duplicate data.
Apparently, such clarity of thinking is not reserved for members of the software industry only:

This latest update has been a long time coming; I keep rewriting what I have, each time coming up with nothing of quality, and finally postponing the update until the next day. Enough with the procrastinating already, right?

It’s really hard to find a Sound of Music screenshot other than the famous one of Julie Andrews [...]

This morning, I dropped my nose ring down the sink.
No, I haven’t forgotten that I have a post with this EXACT theme below. I just did it again. This time without water!
I put the nose ring on the countertop last night, next to a bottle of soap with a sticky label. This morning, when I [...]

Any SCJohnson advertisers who may be reading: Drano is some darn powerful stuff.
That is just one of the things I learned tonight. Even diluted in a sea of water, Drano does a marvelous job of burning your hands. Fortunately, mine were only submerged for a few seconds, and even then only a few fingertips. The [...]

Hmm. Apparently I forgot to upload my blog about President Reagan’s death. It’s at home, so I’ll have to retroactively squeeze it in tonight.
I meant to post pictures from the Human Development Fund fundraising dinner last night, but I think they’re going to come out blurry because I couldn’t completely figure out how to use [...]

As someone who once said she didn’t really know much about Ronald Reagan because her class didn’t quite get that far into the history book, I have to admit I don’t feel any personal sense of loss other than what’s to be expected for the death of a president.
Individual politics don’t really have a place [...]