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January 2006
Top Dog
Tuesday, 31 January 2006 7:42 A GMT-05
Since Lionel's gone to Pittsburgh to talk about American Ginseng (and don't ask me why Pittsburgh--I'm not a botanist, but I don't imagine the ground of Pittsburgh to be too fertile or friendly enough to sport Ginseng) I'm at home doing really import
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Playing Games with Safety
Monday, 30 January 2006 7:30 A GMT-05
Safety Bingo: Another lame incentive at YBP.
Challenger and life beyond
Saturday, 28 January 2006 1:45 P GMT-05
Cnn has a new poll out which asks: Do you remember where you were when you first heard of the Challenger Disaster?
The answer is: yes. I was in school, with my classmates, watching the Challenger blow up.
Us thirty-somethings, the same ones l
Long Live The Eighties
Friday, 27 January 2006 7:30 A GMT-05
Good morning, fellow travelers. It was a rocky start there in the beginning of the week but we've made it all the way to the end of the week and, if we can just get through today we'll have a rowdy two days off. Or in my case I get to get
Weather observatory
Thursday, 26 January 2006 7:28 A GMT-05
Despite the fact that I have repeatedly been disappointed, outraged, and sometimes completely caught off guard by the supposed weather forecasters at NOAA, I still check the weather forecast every day, sometimes multiple times, to see if I can have s
Skirting an issue
Wednesday, 25 January 2006 7:52 A GMT-05
I'm glad to see that equal opportunity is being pursued by people of both sexes. Especially since it's been some years since us of the female persuasion "won" the right to not to wear skirts but to wear pants instead. I definitely thi
Driver Advisory
Monday, 23 January 2006 7:58 A GMT-05
It's snowing here for the first time in a pig's age, and the National Weather Service has helpfully issued a Snow Advisory, in which they tell us that snow will make traveling slow today. Thanks for the tip. Actually, what snow really doe
Best Laid Trees
Sunday, 22 January 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
Yesterday was unseasonably warm for the first half of the day, so we hooked up the dog to his leash, strapped a rope around a severely belated Christmas Present we needed to send off at the post office, and started walking. It's like spring exc
Research/Writing Rock Star Required!
Friday, 20 January 2006 7:34 A GMT-05
I belong to a jobs listserve which doesn't really have any suitable jobs but does get amusing every once in a while. So imagine my surprise when I got this:
[CompanyName] is scouring the marketplace in search of a motivated Researcher /
Rising up to fight for talking lions
Thursday, 19 January 2006 7:50 A GMT-05
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17866401%255E2702,00.html
I haven't seen any of these movies, but I actually plan to. Unlike Narnia or King Kong, they depict a snapshot of real life, like an oil painting of a land
Weather Whine
Wednesday, 18 January 2006 7:17 A GMT-05
I hate to be too terribly picky about the weather; there are, after all, dozens of different possible scenarios in a 24 hour period but, I do think that one should be able to predict with a little bit of confidence exactly what you might get in any p
Divisions of Faith
Tuesday, 17 January 2006 7:59 A GMT-05
After all the nonsense that was the culture war between those who refused to say "Merry Christmas" and those who put banners up on the backs of their gas-guzzling SUVs and family-sized mini-vans to declare that Jesus was the Reason for the
Life..just life
Monday, 16 January 2006 7:19 A GMT-05
..In that, among other things, it's Monday and I have to go to work, and it is Martin Luther King Day and Lionel does not. That's what happens when you work for the state; you get every other day off. We already knows what happens when yo
I, Robot.
Sunday, 15 January 2006 10:58 A GMT-05
I've always wanted a robot. The Isaac Asimov kind of robot, courteous, strong, reasonably intelligent, and completely harmless. What I really want is a slave, but that's not socially acceptable, plus you still have to feed them and clothe
Friday the Thirteenth (or TGIF?)
Friday, 13 January 2006 7:38 A GMT-05
Wikipedia has this to say about the origin of Friday the Thirteenth as a particularly inauspicious day:
The origin of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the belief that there were 13 people at The Last Supper of Jesus, who was cruci
Fixing the Lottery
Thursday, 12 January 2006 7:56 A GMT-05
Recently Pat Robertson opened his mouth again and the devil spoke out of it. Since we're all pretty much used to Robertson claiming outrageous things because God told him so, I didn't really think much of it, except to laugh. Israel, howe
Studying the Blindingly Obvious
Wednesday, 11 January 2006 7:43 A GMT-05
Recently, a team of eminently qualified scientists found that people are groggy in the morning, and that this grogginess impairs their ability to think clearly. The decision to spend money on something this obvious was made by an executive befo
Getting Graphic
Tuesday, 10 January 2006 7:44 A GMT-05
Despite being 6 whole years into the great new century, there are parts of my job which are tediously manual. For instance, we keep a running total on a white board of all the books we do, with the approximate time of day beside it. This task r
Cinderella Story
Monday, 9 January 2006 7:38 A GMT-05
This is what happens when you have too many legislators in your state gorvernment.
Okay, maybe I'm jealous that I didn't get to argue for a non-essential bill in front of a committee in Concord NH when I was in 4th grade. Instead, I had
Running Out of Steam...
Friday, 6 January 2006 7:43 A GMT-05
It's a good thing it's whatever day it is..uh, Friday! ...because I am rapidly running out of enough gumption to get up and get dressed and go to work and sneeze all day. It's hard work infecting all your co-workers. My cold has mov
Rings around the World
Thursday, 5 January 2006 7:44 A GMT-05
This may shock some people, but I'd forgotten it was even time for the Winter Olympics.
After so many controversies and so many changes in the rules, letting professionals in with the amateurs and so forth, it's just not the same as it was when I wa
Conquering the Dream World
Wednesday, 4 January 2006 7:45 A GMT-05
Maybe it was the fact that I was reading about the failed campaigns of Anthony and Cleopatra just before I fell asleep. Or maybe I swallowed too much cough medicine. At any rate I spent last night with that half-awake-not-awake sense that
Starting off on the Wrong Foot
Tuesday, 3 January 2006 7:18 A GMT-05
I've been battling it for about a week now, with a low grade headache, but I finally tipped the balance and went into full-blown cold mode.
My place of employment does not separate out vacation time from sick-time, with the predicted result that mo
Peachy Keen
Monday, 2 January 2006 10:35 A GMT-05
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.