I don’t get too spun up about birthdays. They don’t make me feel old. Brian Westbrook being cut by the Eagles makes me feel old. When a guy like Mike Schmidt retires or a guy like Westbrook leaves, it’s a reminder of the years that have passed. So today I’m bummed out for two reasons: [...]
And so today, the great minds of the Senate and House from both parties will come together with His Holiness to present their sides in the great health care reform debate. Call it the Blair House Project. I’ve got to say that after the election of Senator Scott Brown and President Obama’s statements that “He [...]
I’m a DBA. That’s an acronym for Database Administrator. I tried getting them to call me GOD, Guardian Of Data, but the idea has been met with something less than warm enthusiasm. I’m in the middle of my on call week. I and six of my comrades take turns once every seven weeks strapped to [...]
I first saw the words “redneck Jesus” on a NASCAR message board. The poster obviously meant it to demean Dale Earnhardt Jr. and, I suppose, rednecks in general. I work in an office all day, so the reddest my neck gets is mowing the lawn in the summer. There are a couple things I know [...]
When I started this blog, every now and then I’d post about my “Idiot of the Week”. I’ve never liked using the term “idiot” because calling someone like Eugene Robinson an idiot is to demean the ancient and noble profession of idiotry. So I’ve some up with a new epithet: Muttonhead. The pickings were very [...]
When you are bent at the shovel for twelve hours, you do a lot of thinking. In April of 1815 a volcano called Mount Tambora erupted in what is now Indonesia. The eruption, classified by volcanologists as “super-colossal” was about twenty times more powerful than the Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980 and was heard [...]
I left work on Friday at about noon, just as the snow was starting to fall pretty heavily. When I got home I parked the cars carefully, so I’d be able to broom all the snow off into the grass, instead of the driveway, where I’d have to shovel it. I VPN’d into work the [...]
In this article, Annette John-Hall celebrates her identity during this month devoted to African American history. Except she has a problem with African American History Month, much preferring Black History Month. John-Hall insists on being called black. I suppose she can be considered an expert, since she is (insert neutral, non-offensive racial identifier here) and [...]
I read an article in RIA Novosti this week entitled Russia’s Future Fighter Conquers The Skies about Russia’s new fifth generation fighter. I had to smirk a bit at the hyperbole (at which the Russians are masters)…by “conquers the skies” they meant “the pilot managed to get the thing into the air and land before [...]
