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There was a brand-new second lieutenant who was very ambitious and wanted to be a general. So one night at the officer’s club the young officer spotted this old general sitting at the bar. So he went up and said, “How do I become a general?” And the old general answered, “Son, you’ve got to [...]
“I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks… you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or someone who [...]
“I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug” is the first line of Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis, who may be familiar to you from his work in comics, including Transmetropolitan and The Authority. If you’re anything like me, that’s all you need to hear to know [...]
Shortly after I started my job in Seattle, the creative director started talking about making a trip out to a Taiwanese restaurant where I and the other new guys had to try Stinky Tofu, a dish which has been described as “a violation of the geneva conventions,” and which has gotten street vendors in Taiwan [...]
Ha! This is a great bit of news. It helps you remember that people are people wherever you go. “Residents of Kabul, freed of the Taliban’s restrictions, celebrated by blaring music from radios and shaving their beards.”
(This is a copy of an email I recently sent to a friend.) You know me well enough to know that in general, I’m an optimist, and I want to believe that the government has our best interests at heart. If for no other reason than that college is full of anti-establishment people, and I [...]
“If Microsoft is Big Brother, then Apple is Goldstein.” – John Sundman
I just got back from Jill and Eric’s house. Under pressure from me, with backup from Annie and Corey, they agreed to watch Pi. Needless to say, I came home ready to do cutting-edge things with my computer (though I will probably settle for posting here and making a new hammerspace). Jill and Eric didn’t [...]
I had to go to three different churches today ranging from cool to tolerable, to un-fucking-believable. (no offense to anyone who happens to belong to a born-again christian cowboy church..) See, I’m taking Sociology of Religion, and part of our grade is to go to four different churches, preferably some that make us uncomfortable, and [...]
You know, shit is just getting ridiculous.
I think that without women around, men tend to revert to an uncivilized state. Annie is gone this week, and I act completely differently than when she’s here. I stopped showering and shaving. When I get up at around two in the afternoon I tend to wander around in just a ratty pair of short [...]
Tyler said, picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes one the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You’ll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We’ll paint the skyscrapers with huge [...]
In Which Steph Gets Infected
It finally happened… I tried to stop it, but I failed. I failed miserably… All it took was one weekend visit to Oregon, and now I find myself saying things that Steve and Scott would say. Worst of all, lately I have been doing that thing where you quote in the air with your fingers… [...]
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