The wind is starting to kick up again outside. Last night was pretty wild. The rain forced its way inside through the ceiling and the windows leaving little puddles in unexpected places. The sky goes intermittently dark, but has yet to let loose again ( Read more... )

Do we ever understand how good our lives are? I know I get caught up in my own struggles, and being tired of the way my life is going, I begin to feel like I've suffered too much for no good reason. But then there are these little doses of humility that bring home the truth that all things are relative ( Read more... )

Since I don't keep a normal mon-fri schedule I tend to lose track of days easily. Though If I had to pick a day I don't look forward to Saturday would win. That's usually the day I realize I haven't gotten as much done as I wanted to and a big empty date night is staring me in the face ( Read more... )

I've noticed a lot of negativity and meanness in others today. More than normal. Maybe that's the internets for you. I don't know. I do know the crowd mentality is alive and well despite the dislocation of individuals. Personally I have always found the sort of mundane popularity contests that generate cliques to be boring and non-productive, but ( Read more... )

This item via BoingBoing and Knowledge Ecology Notes (KEI Staff Blog) irritates me.

No, I am not an Obama hater. I have high hopes for the man although I'm in disagreement with many of his fiscal policies. This particular bit of corporate/intellectual property ass-kissing does not differentiate Obama from the previous administration. It simply ( Read more... )

Seriously people. You would think that if your company is going to spend $50,000 to $250,000 to promote your products, services, good will, or whatever, you'd at least make sure the result isn't pure crap. Bad ads can damage your bottom line. You should know this. Hey that's why they made you VP of marketing.

It's been a while since I've watched ( Read more... )

So I just watched the movie Blinded. What a downer. Very slow paced and atmospherically subdued. Even at the end of the film when it's clear the disease can spontaneously reverse itself, there's no real sense of hope. The film's characters are simply left to deal with the horrors that they have been through ( Read more... )

Let's just state this for the record: just because no one laughs at your remarks or gets your jokes does not mean you are a master of sarcasm and everyone else is dull. It just means you're not witty, or perhaps not intelligent enough to fully understand either irony or sarcasm. In any case, you might want to consult  the Sarcasm Society for some ( Read more... )

says “pmsl” in chat one more time and I am going to . . . okay, thank god for mute/ignore. Honestly, I'm sick of “pmsl”. It's like everyone's favorite expression all of a sudden. Get over it and move on already. You and your friends aren't so awesomely funny that you should be pmsl-ing every time one of you types in chat.

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So I don't spend oodles of time reading advice columns. No actually, I think it's been over a year since the last time I bothered looking at one. Then today I'm browsing around Salon and the phrase “know it all” pops off the page at me. Well, I have a tendency to be one of those so clickie I go.

And now I have to note this article here on my LJ: How ( Read more... )