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Who? Me? What?
Filed in Musings, April 3, 2008, 11:01 pmOne of Jeff’s workmates (different department) happens to be someone I went to high school with. He’s also a dad at our kids’ school and is the former PTO president. It seems he has decided to run for president next year and told Jeff that he wanted me to give him a call. He wants [...]
Message to Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty
Filed in Musings, March 24, 2008, 12:44 pmText message to: K. Kilpatrick & C. Beatty
Sup? Sux u chrgd wit lyng. 12 cnts?!!!! dam! u in trbl dudes!!!
I thought I’d begin with a language of communication you both understand because it seems large words such as you’d find in an oath of office or truth might not be within your ability to comprehend [...]
Iran So Far
Filed in Musings, October 4, 2007, 4:09 amAndy Samberg and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad together at last in this SNL Digital Short with Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. Don’t blink or you’ll miss Jake Gyllenhaal at the end.
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To Do: find delight
Filed in Musings, September 30, 2007, 12:16 amIn his essay, Good and Bad Procrastination, Paul Graham puts out this interesting cookie to chew on:
“I think the way to “solve” the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.”
Yeah, but what if it’s to-do lists that delight you? What then? Or what if there’s [...]
Michigan: Closed. Please call again!
Filed in Musings, September 29, 2007, 2:24 amFor those who don’t know, the state of Michigan is facing a budget crisis that, if not resolved soon, will impact the state in numerous ways and obviously none will be positive. Essentially the state will be shutting down at the beginning of the next fiscal year which begins on October 1st, 2007 if negotiations [...]
Note to self: be more vain
Filed in Musings, September 27, 2007, 10:39 pmYou know how your mother tells you to always have on clean underwear in case you get run over? Or how about the rule that says the minute you go out looking your absolute worst is when you see your husband’s high school sweetheart or that girl you hated in AP English your senior year? [...]
Bitter is the new black
Filed in Musings, September 3, 2007, 11:58 pmI don’t know if I’d exactly use the word bitter to describe my mood of late but it’s not far off sometimes. Today the emotion of the day was depressed but I also ran through a little anger here and there. Take for example something I wrote to a friend earlier today:
Many homes in our [...]
See ya, Jerry
Filed in Musings, May 15, 2007, 9:15 pmWell, it finally happened–Jerry Falwell has met his maker. Wonder if he’s sweating a lot. I suspect he is.
Buh-by, Jehwie! Tinky-Winky say bye!
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