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On my desk
I have a new desk with a hutch. Hutch is meant for a CRT monitor, not a laptop with side-by-side flatscreen. Have requested all or part of hutch be removed.
To communicate this desire to Physical Plant folks, I have left a series of stickie notes:
#1: This side is the problem
#2: Need ~6-8" #3: Honestly - Just NEED this side gone. I assume ( Read more... ) -
Smells truthy
Gen. John Batiste (Ret.) on interagency strategic planning.
My favorite part is where he acknowledges how bloody hard cooperation is. Most articles I see like this go something like "Yap yap agencies must share info and coordinate yap yap synergy yap frequent updates yap yap." Right. Because it's easy to get the lumbering bureaucratic behemoths ( Read more... ) -
Oy vey
Article on body scanners at WSJ
Is it wrong that I want to get a beige dance leotard to wear to go through airport security? -
Transitivity
Transitivity: The property such that if A > B and B > C, A > C.
Transitivity does not apply to clothes. Just because the shoes go with the pants, and the pants go with the shirt, it does not follow that the shoes go with the shirt.
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World building
Once upon a time, a little girl decided to read one of her daddy's books that had a unicorn on the cover. The book was one of Robert Asprin's "Myth" series, and that was my intro to fantasy fiction ( Read more... ) -
WHARGARBLE
IT SHOULD NOT TAKE AN ENTIRE DAY TO INSTALL A WINDOW UNIT A/C -
I'm gonna be in pictures
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Aspirations II
From whence does this urge to write a novel come? you may ask ( Read more... ) -
Aspirations
I have this half-baked idea that I should write a novel ( Read more... ) -
The latest buzz
A swarm of honeybees has moved into the overhang above our porch.
No, seriously.
It's kind of like we rolled on the Random Encounter Table of life. "Mid-Atlantic Suburbs, Spring... okay, roll 2d10... an eighteen? Honey Bee Swarm!"
"What happens if you roll a 20?"
"POTUS sighting."