Category: Life

I noticed the other day that this is a haiku:Hey shorty, it’s yourbirthday; we’re going to partyLike it’s your birthday I hope that changes your life like it changed mine.

These things annoy me:Middle-aged women who laugh at things that aren’t funnyThe phrase “check out our Web site”The whole notion of VIPsChevroletsPeople who over-prepare for hikesUseless NewSpeak: blogosphere, advertorial, infotainment, advergameWindows (okay, this actually goes beyond gentle annoyance)ScrapbookingReggae (except Dancehall)Conformists who pose as non-conformistsFlourescent lightsFashion

It’s generally said that nouns do not have gender in the English language. This is not entirely true. This post serves as a public service announcement in the spirit of my obsessive attachment to grammar and spelling. We borrowed an awful lot of words from the French. And some of those–those used as adjectives to [...]

Okay, folks have really got to stop using the words ‘passion’ and ‘passionate’ willy-nilly. I sort of lost my patience with the term this morning while listening to NPR. During a station-break shoutout, they identified an accounting firm. Said accounting firm claimed that they were “passionate” about the business of accounting. You’re kidding me, right? [...]

I regret starting this set of thoughts with a politically-inspired one. But I was wondering if anyone–academic or otherwise–has yet drawn the parallels between the so-called Iraqi liberation and the forced dogmatic impression of bygone religious crusades. I mean, isn’t forcing an ideology (no matter how ideal it may seem to the enforcer) on a [...]

Indeed. But I need a place to stash my thoughts while I develop my new software. Don’t be upset, it will all end well.