I walked past one of the many news-tuned televisions mounted in the hallways of my workplace this morning, and noted that whatever channel they’re tuned to today (it varies, depending on, I suppose, the whims of whoever’s holding the controls of the CCTV system) is replaying, in real-time, without comment, their broadcast tapes from this […]
I’m not sure where it fits in the complaint continuum presented previously: I kind of hate when mail/etc. is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Husbandname Lastname. To me, this seems demeaning to the wife half of that equation. I understand that marriage grew out of a patriarchal tradition wherein women were essentially sold off as […]
Over the weekend, a bunch of Obama surrogates (including Secretary Sebelius) started dropping suggestions that the Public Option part of the health care reform package might be expendable in the name of compromise. Boo Hiss. This discussion should have started with single-payer as the opening position, leading to compromise from there. What’s the point of […]
I completely forgot that today, being the last Friday in July, is National SysAdmin Appreciation Day . Part of my job is to serve as administrator on a small, but widely accessed data repository system. I received no particular appreciation. I was, however, left alone. In many ways, that’s all the appreciation I really needed. […]
Having the fridge and the vaccum crap out on the same day is pretty much the perfect capper for this generally “meh” week. Oh well, at least they had the decency to die on the day before payday, when the cupboard was pretty much bare anyway. Replacements, are, however, on the way, and they don’t […]
The queue at the security door looked like some sort of dead man walking/green mile/death march this morning. None of my systems or passwords work today. Some guy looking for someone who doesn’t work in my building has called me four times in the five minutes, and is unable to understand that dialing the same […]
Oh, how this bugs me: The ‘computer’ is not the ‘hard drive’! Some of you may interpret this as being elitist, pompous bitching (and it very well may be); but think of it this way: if your ‘sink’ is leaking, you don’t tell your plumber that your ‘bathroom’ is broken; or worse, start throwing around […]
Let’s ignore for the moment that this morning’s first few hours involved a snow shovel shattering upon first impact with the ice, and my subsequent inability to get either car out of the driveway. We’ll further ignore the fact that I fell on my ass while trying to push the fleet car across the ice […]
