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Remember Snow?
I sent out an e-mail with a PowerPoint attachment that was a slide show of snow pictures in Scandinavia. And added a lighthearted remark about forgetting what snow is. The reply I received did cause me to think about my own forgetfulness of snow ( Read more... ) -
A Non-traditional Student's Observations
In a few days I'll be an official graduate of the ITT Technical Institute in Columbia, SC. My major was Network Systems Administration and my degree is an AAS (Associates of Applied Science). I wanted to turn more to the software side of IT and leave the hardware side as a minor part of my work. It remains to be seen if I will be able to find a ( Read more... ) -
Lack of posting
Here's a quick update as to what is and has been happening in my life.
Due to circumstances beyond my control I was offered a chance to further my education courtesy of the government. This happened sometime in March of 2011 (IIRC*) when I received a letter from my previous employer stating that due to the success of an appeal on their part the ( Read more... ) -
What we have here.....
.... is a failure to communicate. A quote from 'Cool Hand Luke'. There are two versions - one without the 'a' (spoken by the warden) and the other as written here (spoken by Paul Newman's character). Thanks to Wikipedia for the info. Anyway, I just experienced a literal 'failure to communicate'.
I and another fellow were trying to help a ( Read more... ) -
Bookends
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
If you don't recognize the lyrics, they're from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. The song came to mind a few days ago while I was continuing with clean-up and organizing efforts. Which have been long overdue.
The particular task that reminded me of the song was ( Read more... ) -
Snow 2011
Snow is a hazard down where I live - the middle of South Carolina.
A friend of ours tried to explain it to someone from one of the states where people are accustomed to dealing with the white stuff. It happens so infrequently in our area that it is not economically feasible to maintain the infrastructure to deal with snow. It's only about every ( Read more... ) -
Context
Actually this is about 'out of context'.
I overheard this conversation:
Lady: I'll trade you the baby for a drink.
Man: OK!
It sounds terrible. This happened while I shopping before Christmas (but not Christmas shopping).
It actually was very innocent. While walking I glanced at a couple with a very young daughter. The wife was holding the ( Read more... ) -
Tech Support Call
I was clearing out some e-mails and came across one that was a paraphrased transcript of a call I handled while I supported one of my company's* field service technicians. When I started the logging process for the call I noted that the problem description was "printer not printing properly".
Me: What's going on.
Tech: The call says the printer is ( Read more... ) -
An Interesting Evening
Sigh. While thinking about this post I came up with a much better subject line, but in the interval between thinking about the post and actually getting here the thought vanished to where ever such thoughts go. More later ( Read more... ) -
WikiLeaks - my view
As I write this the current 'hot' news topic is another release of confidential diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks. I've been following the story by reading our local newspaper and listening to radio newscasts. I haven't read any of the documents except for this opinion article that paraphrased/excerpted part of one document. Even if I had read ( Read more... )