A local TV station in DC is running a series on breast exams, featuring uncensored breasts this week. The station is going out of it’s way to characterize this bit of programming as daring and “ground-breaking”, as well as prominently featuring naked breasts. I concede that breast cancer awareness and prevention is terribly important, and […]
As much as I’m not a fan of “kid” and “grown-up” being non-overlapping circles in the Venn diagram of life, I’ve noticed over the last year or two that there’s one area where it feels like I’ve crossed the line; boarded the elfship and sailed Into The West, never to return to Middle-Earth. Or to […]
So far this morning, I have encountered two minor tragedies which I fear pre-sage bad things: Panera has taken my favorite plain-jane chicken salad sandwich off the menu, and replaced it with an abomination containing grapes and almonds, that costs two dollars more. Damn. The soda machines (which pretty much constitute the entirety of food […]
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 […]
