I do think, given the state of things, that I would give anything to be able to walk properly again. Or, at the least, to not hurt every day ( Read more... )

For the last few weeks, I've been renovating my room - a small (very small) room on the first floor that was initially supposed to be only a "den". This arrangement of ordaining this impossibly tiny room as "my" room has meant that I've had to sacrifice a bed due to space constraints. I've slept on the floor of the tv room for the last... oh, six ( Read more... )

"Much ado about nothing" stands to characterize the tail end of 2008 ( Read more... )

In business, one of the metrics that is used to evaluate whether a business will fail or succeed is something called "burn rate". Essentially, this is a term that indicates the rapidity that a company will use up money for things like salaries, rent, inventory, etc. Generally, it is termed bi-polarly: low or high ( Read more... )

So, in recent times, I find myself having to pay more attention to the way I present myself to the world: gone are the days of deliciously comfortable, oversized cargo pants and sumptuously disposable t-shirts. This brave new world tenders a fodder of a concept called "fit": "fitted", "stretch fit", " 'when you can't breathe, that's the proper fit ( Read more... )

So I spent the entirety of yesterday doing this:


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It's not often that I write in response to events that happen at work, but I thought the few readers that frequent here would benefit from this ( Read more... )

Things like this were created by Bell Laboratories for use in multimillion dollar projects. Now, career engineers are being replaced with grad students. Soon, fun projects like this will be the domain of the undergrad... Oh, the way things were...

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People like this drive innovation. I can't ignore the fact that cheap technology has lowered the ( Read more... )

Every now and again, something takes me back to really olden times and I remember fragments of things that have managed to escape from the growing cyst in the history of my life ( Read more... )

So I've been on a big Daft Punk kick of late... I don't know if I've posted it before (I thought I did, but I can't find it), but here goes the run downExhibit A: the ORIGINAL ( Read more... )