(I don’t want to hear ONE WORD about the kind of world I must be living in if this is the saddest news of my day.)
Yesterday Ivan told us today would be Tuba Christmas day here at work, and we greeted that news with our usual mix of enthusiasm and despair.
But then we arrived at [...]
Because let’s admit it, y’all, this is a great shot:
The man behind Saddam Hussein is his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti. The photograph catches them just as they’re vigorously objecting to the testimony of a witness hidden behind a curtain.
(”Fears of retribution by Saddam loyalists forced the court to shield the witnesses’ identities. Witnesses are allowed [...]
It’s about time somebody said it.
» Read the rest of this entry ...I don’t normally talk about work on this site because that would be breaking one of the cardinal rules of blogging, and not getting dooced is always high on my annual to-do list.
But today is launch day, and for this project, on which I’ve worked for the better part of a year, for which I [...]
You know what sucks? Sitting on the phone with your ISP for the second time in the evening (because the first call was, in the immortal words of one of my high school classmates, utterly fruitless), sounding like bitchy, blithering idiot while the tech support guy patiently eliminates all the potential causes, and then hanging [...]
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