The lady who is the chief of staff sent me an e-mail this morning to welcome me to The QCC. That would be the Quarter Century Club in the enterprise where I work. I'm not sure what to think about getting this e-mail. She mentions scheduling a virtual meeting with the CEO, virtual only because the company HQ is in Chicago. She continues that I can ( Read more... )

I found an interesting quote about marriage today, while surfing around and debating whether or not I should "go talk to somebody." It resonates with what Molyneux has to say about "real-time relationships:"

"The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are ( Read more... )

It hurts to be excommunicated. If that is what they think is OK to do to a child then her parents certainly deserve whatever unhappiness they've brought down upon their heads.

It's cool this morning, around 60° F even now, at 11:00 AM. It is still somewhat misty and overcast out the windows here, in Alameda. The sky over San Francisco was a deep purple when I was driving to work. It wasn't raining, nor will it, although a sky such as that but in Ohio would portend rain, almost as a certainty ( Read more... )

So, when I checked out the web for news this morning, I found out that a college guy named Elliot Rodger murdered a bunch of people near Santa Barbara on Saturday. I don't have to ask what gets into people's heads. In the article about the incident, Christoper Cantwell sounds like he's onto something: we inculcate in our children a false sense of ( Read more... )

I finally became fed up enough with Facebook on November 1 to deactivate my account. It's just not my medium. I've learned that, so I must say that it has been an education experience in having the account.

Most of what looks like passionate declarations of belief on Facebook is superficial "image crafting" by people who are either unwilling or ( Read more... )

I'm distracted, worried, frustrated, and annoyed...and it's irritatingly impacting my ability to concentrate on work today. I hate it when that happens. A friend has gotten her life into an appalling state of disarray and is headed for no good end and I have not the wisdom (and perhaps not the sensitivity) to get her to consider her situation in ( Read more... )

What is wrong with Microsoft? Why can't these people turn out quality software, especially for items that are popular and used frequently? It used to be when I ran Windows Media Player I had trouble working with the Tag Editor. It used to lock-up when I tried to edit the tags on an MP3 music file. In this version of XP Professional on my newly ( Read more... )

There is a video out of Iran that has been circulating on the internet the past few days. It's subject is the murder, by sniping, of a young woman protester in Iran. It's graphic and horrific and heart-wrenching to watch ( Read more... )

My boss sometimes listens to classic rock music that has been rendered down into Muzak and it is just loud enough that it invades my cubicle and subliminally poisons my musical sensibilities. I have been treated to such Muzak-ified versions of great songs like The Doors: "Light My Fire" and Led Zepplin's "Kashmir"I'm a libertarian...but sometimes ( Read more... )