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Pot Pie
When I was in graduate school near Chicago, I lived on a little stipend from the University. They deposited my checks on Friday. That afternoon I'd go down to the bank and withdraw a little cash so that I'd be able to buy groceries for the weekend. The bank had one of these new-fangled ATM machines, so I didn't have to make it down there before the ( Read more... ) -
Blue
Mucking out the barn in the cold ( Read more... ) -
FlkFlk!
My Mom tells stories ( Read more... ) -
A Night to Remember
If I told my friends I was reading _A Night to Remember_ I suspect most of them would think it was erotica ( Read more... ) -
The Mediocrity of Evil
Maybe you've heard the phrase "The Banality of Evil." If not, Wikipedia article . Basically, the idea is that all you need to do to produce evil on an industrial scale is convince your society that this is the way things are done. The vast majority of evil can then be done by punch-clock villains who were only following orders. They aren't bad ( Read more... ) -
Hitler 9684
The 9683rd Next Hitler ( Read more... ) -
Packages of Shingles
"Hello? HELLO? Dammit ( Read more... ) -
Check Please!
One of the little towns I grew up in had a Detroit Edison office. You'd go in there and hand the man behind the counter your busted toaster; a week or two later you'd go and pick it up again, perfectly repaired. You'd go in and hand him your burned-out light bulbs; he'd hand you new ones, right on the spot. The charge for all of this was exactly ( Read more... ) -
E-Z LIFT
It's sort of a set of pliers in reverse, You squeeze the handle and the pins at the opposite end spread apart. What it is, it's a lifter for the lids of glass jars. Put those teeth between the lid and the jar, squeeze, and pffft, like that, the vacuum seal is broken, the lid is loose, and you can take it right off ( Read more... ) -
Tweets
Any day out of the office is a good one. I went out to do a couple inspections today ( Read more... )