Sandia Laboratories has decided that we need computers that monitor and tell us how we’re feeling; even scarier, they believe that our computers should snitch on us, telling our colleagues and supervisors how we’re feeling and how those feelings might impact our work. That computer on your desk is just your helper. But soon it […]
Well, it was about the worst possible outcome for me personally. All the local schools are closed. The federal government, however, rather than closing has opened with “unscheduled leave,” which means that you’re supposed to come to work but if you don’t think you can make it you can take leave without having it pre-approved. […]
It’s snowing; in fact, there’s already a noticeable accumulation on the ground. The forecast is for a winter storm warning with a total of between 4 and 8 inches. The worst of it is projected before midnight, then tapering off until around 7am. Too soon to tell, then, if the government might close tomorrow, giving […]
In a scathing column in The New York Press, Michelangelo Signorile justifiably takes Mary Cheney to task, not just for her silence in the face of her father’s reverse on the issue of who should determine the legality of gay relationships, but for her complicity in this position by joining the vice president’s re-election campaign. […]
Came across this link to MyWorld66 from JaseWells.com. Select the countries you’ve visited, and it will create a map with those countries marked in red. Here’s mine. Sadly, for someone who thought he was so worldly, I’ve only visited 13 countries so far. I need to get moving. create your own visited country map I […]
Yesterday I stayed home from work, feeling a little under the weather; my stomach and gut had been bothering me since the weekend, when I had attributed it to the rich food Jeff and I had been eating, and Monday when I ascribed it to the greasy Johnny Rockets burger and fries. On Tuesday night, […]
I was eating some Triscuits with my soup tonight at dinner, and on the back of the box noticed that one recipe called for, and I quote, “KRAFT Roasted Garlic Flavor Cheddar Pasteurized Process Cheese Food.” I rather suspect that anything that has to assert in its name that it’s food, probably isn’t. And anything […]
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve participated in a blog meme, but as Mac at Go Fish notes, this one’s about books and therefore was difficult to resist. The items in bold are the books/series I’ve read. No, I don’t know why these particular books were chosen, that’s just the way this meme was […]
I posted this originally just as a quicklink on my serendipity blog, but decided I wanted to note it here on elf-reflection, too. As the president prepares to unveil in his State of the Union speech tonight his administration’s election-year $1.5 billion dollar plan to “rescue marriage,” and as the push for a constitutional amendment […]
As Jeff noted at Rebel Prince, he and I took advantage over the weekend of DC’s Restaurant Week 2004, in which a number of the metro area’s tonier restaurants offered 3-course prix fixe lunches for $20.04 and dinners for $30.04. Because we found out about it so late in the week, by Saturday morning when […]