I ran across a list of blonde jokes today. Now, I got sick of these things when I was about 15, and this list basically rehashed most of the ones that have been around at least that long, but tossed in a few that I hadn’t heard that had more to do with being crude than funny. One, though, that I particularly liked was this one, because it’s nice ( Read more... )

Okay, I promised in the last posting that I’d talk about NPR versus local news. I’m not sure whom exactly I promised, but I’m still going to try to follow through. Unfortunately, my observations are going to be a little incomplete, because shortly after the last post, my projects and schedule shifted, so I wasn’t listening in the morning to both ( Read more... )

Okay, so this morning I turned on the local TV news while eating my cereal. I often do that both because I like the noise and because it gives me traffic and weather. Unfortunately the local NPR station doesn’t give traffic, otherwise I might not bother with TV in the morning. More about local news versus NPR in a forthcoming post, by the by. ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I had an encounter with Grand Rapids construction that made me more than a little annoyed. First of all, I’m going to point out that the amount of construction I’ve seen around here lately doesn’t alarm me. Someone sent me a list of not-exceptionally-funny jokes about Michigan that included a couple about the amount of ( Read more... )

This is my first entry in my first foray into the world of blogging. Am I going to hate it? It is a distinct possibility, but for now, I feel like sharing my thoughts with people who have no reason to be particularly interested in them ( Read more... )