While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. The Senator's soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do ( Read more... )

miss the days when I could charge a pain in the ass fee. if i could tack that on to my salary right now i would be flying around the world.

still waiting on phoenix travel auth. leaving thursday for washington. mum may fly out of spokane a day earlier for work which means i could have taken the san fran trip instead of phoenix. too late now to change pending arrangements. nerves are kicking in about a number of things. mostly flying. im ok during early morning flights, too sleepy, too ( Read more... )

  bought a womans groceries this morning. she was trying to write a bad check. i rationalize it by thinking i somehow saved some money by her not going to jail. in the end, thats where she would eventually end up. im against any sort of socialism and financial assistance. im a loaner of "get out of jail free cards"

Ugh.. This makes me want to puke
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94476665

I thought talent was a prerequisite for being an artist..

Couldn't modern "art" be instead called "modern interpretation of art."

In my experience, most in-house web teams basically employ two types of people: designers and developers. Sure, some people call them different things, and there are definitely exceptions, but generally speaking, we’re split into these two camps.

For the most part, our technical responsibilities are split up as such: “designers” do the client-side ( Read more... )

So I was reading ALA and found an old article titled Valentine's Day Massacre." A "short" list of complaints people have about the internet. Here are the ones I agree with - the ones I don't are pointless to me.

1.  Oh - wait.. before I begin-  bitching about web browsers is getting old. for now, until all browsers are the same, i think what makes ( Read more... )

To me, there is nothing wrong with using a CMS when designing your own website or "blog" - why learn html/css when you can just use a program that makes the code for you?

But heres what pisses me off (along the same lines as a web design agency using templates without letting the client know AND charging the same price as a unique design). I found a ( Read more... )

So.. lesson learned. I had really good flights. My flight from Atlanta into Chicago was amazing. Clear skies no bumps or screaming children - and I was moved to business class. Free upgrades are very nice ( Read more... )

Ever since I got my plane tickets last month just about every day has been filled with subtle hints that my life is coming to an end. Everything from briefly catching a snippet from Family Guy where someone says "Plane crashes are contagious" to an image this morning on my igoogle.
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