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Too hot for facebook
I decided that making my status
"is thinking it might be time to throw out the Darth Maul boxer-briefs"
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Inevitability of the unlikely
I wrote this in response to another Livejournal entry, but felt it explained what really bothers me about the whole BP disaster. I expanded it a bit.
I have been pondering the problem of what can be done about the BP oil spill and all the disastrous consequences of it and who is to blame here. From an engineering point of view, I believe as much as ( Read more... ) -
5th Anniversary
Tomorrow is the Fifth anniversary of this livejournal. Unfortunately, LJ seems to be in rapid decline and with a couple of notable exceptions basically none of my friends are still posting. I am thinking of migrating over to another medium for my more blog-like entries and (lets face it) facebook has eaten up the daily comments ( Read more... ) -
He lives...well ... He posts anyway
So anyway, where was I, oh yeah spending too much time working and hanging out on facebook (yeah I know I said it was dead to me, but listen to me Livejournal, you're the one I really love). So here's an assortment of things that I have been pondering as I sit in endless meetings and run on treadmills.
Lady Gaga’s imaginary family tree
I imagined ( Read more... ) -
Lantz and Auden
I read something in the Writer's Almanac the other day, a poem by Nick Lantz called "POSTMANTERRORISM" and its melancholy tone put me in mind of one of W.H. Auden's best known (and one of my favorite) poems, September 1, 1939. Each is a requiem for an age of anomie, confusion and unhappy unrealized hopes. Each is wonderfully packed with allusions ( Read more... ) -
Wake-up
I slept in this weekend until 8:30am. When I got up I realized it had been more than 5 years since I last got to sleep that late. This from a guy who used to have routine problems meeting his friends for breakfast at 11 on Sundays. Children will make a morning person out of anyone (but they can't make me like it). -
A final thought on 2009
Rabbit needed to be taught the following in 2009:
Snow drifting gently down onto one's tongue = good
Eating snow freshly fallen in dog-free back yard as dad drags you about on a saucer sled = silly but good
Snow eaten from someone else's discarded chicken bone in a Jersey rest stop = not good.
Happy New Year! (and maybe I'll do better next ( Read more... ) -
Infalliable predictions of things which will matter an awful lot in 2010
Things which will matter an awful lot in 2010
So important that they bear little explanation:
Samurai themed underwear - currently a men’s underwear trend which is mostly sold to Japanese "reki-jo" (history girls), but soon a world-wide phenomenon. (check out: ( Read more... ) -
Lexically Questionable 1st annual 2009 Words of the Year
2009 Word of the year:
Dumbassedness - small minded stupidity practiced with supercilious élan. As in, "This year's health-care debate was characterized by an unusually high level of dumbassedness."
It was a close competition, but this word seem to encompass so many of the other candidates .
2009 Runners-up:
Furliday - time off of work ( Read more... ) -
My Extremely Influential 1st Annual 2009 Ideas of the Year
And they are:
Lady Gaga
Beets
Supply Chain Management theory
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