Sometimes despite our best efforts at communication, we fail to transmit more signal than noise. Our data get lost. Our ideas don't bridge the gap between minds. The cool part is that, as a species, our least communicative relatives died out so that we have evolved what we think of as a pretty sophisticated set of signals for moving information ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I met a woman who really loves her burmese python. She kept kissing it, and we told the snake how beautiful she was. The woman told me about her reptilian pets and her gators eat goats. When she feels sadistic or a little pissed off, she names a live goat after her boss and tosses it into the gator pen. Her anaconda ate a neighbor's ( Read more... )

I finally bought a new computer over the weekend. It's a desktop PC with an HP monitor and operating on Windows Vista. I wouldn't have gone ahead with the purchase except that I was allowed to use Dear Reader's employee discount. I think it'll be a fun machine to work and play with ( Read more... )

Well, I'm still blogging from work. Dear Reader is back from her visit home. It apparently wasn't fun for her, but I'll let her blog about that if she wants to ( Read more... )

OK, so I still haven't posted those sword pictures. I promise they're coming. Dear Reader has run down south to see family. When she comes back, she can help me get the images from her camera to my computer ( Read more... )

There's a trip to Peru being planned for early November. People from the kung fu school are getting together to visit our repatriated Sifu for some intensive training. I'd love to go, but money is a big issue. I've more or less resigned myself to paying a grand to get down there. He wants more than 200 bucks to let us stay in his home, though ( Read more... )

We're still fighting with our ethernet at the apartment, so I'm still blogging from work. I don't think I mentioned yet that we're having ethernet troubles at home. Right now either my computer will work with wi-fi or Dear Reader's will work with wi-fi. She downloaded some new drivers the other day. We're probably going to try resetting the ( Read more... )

I find myself in an odd position again at work. For about my first five minutes at this company, I was positioned with the office manager to handle phone calls, convention packets, and office logistics. After those first five minutes, my work hours were commandeered by the CEO to assist in company growth and internal communication. I found a ( Read more... )

So, I've decided to start blogging from work. Instead of logging in to Livejournal from the office, I'm going to compose these entries in emails and upload them at night after I get home ( Read more... )

This is our last week at the dojo, but that's not today's story ( Read more... )