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Archive for January, 2007

1953

At this rate, after another couple of months I could probably put together a book called “Poetry I Wrote While Waiting for the Bus.” Well, maybe I’d try to think up a better title than that. An interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that the length of my poetry is entirely dependent on the size [...]

1952

He said, “You can keep your super power, it just short circuits my country.”

1951

This is shaping up to be a very eventful spring. The thing is, they’re all East Coast events. Why does this always seem to happen? Just when I get bored with a place and decide to move, suddenly there’s a million reasons to be there. Actually, that’s probably not true at all. I bet if [...]

1950

Gmail has ruined me for conventional email. I’m already getting nasty notes from the systems administrator at work telling me to clean out my inbox. But, quoth I, I’ve only got four hundred or so messages there, that’s hardly anything at all!

1945

One of these days I’m going to get there.

1944

I don’t understand why people complain so much about Mondays (or conversely, express so much relief over Fridays.) I mean, they’re both just days. I suppose it’s because they are used to define the ‘work week,’ but that’s another concept that I take issue with. The time I spend at work is not separate from [...]

1943

When the only difference between ‘morning coffee’ and ‘dessert’ is that one has whipped cream and the other doesn’t, it is vitally important to maintain that distinction.

1942

British Broadcasting Corporation, you have let me down.

1941

If T-Rex shows up on Monday wearing a bunny suit, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but exploding heads will probably be involved.

1940

I find articles about statistical analysis a lot funnier now that I spend my days working with data. (I wish I spent my days working with Data. That would be so cool.)