One of the most interesting charts I've seen recently is this, illustrating the relationship between GE's corporate profits and the salaries of its employees. As you might expect, they have not risen at the same rate. But the difference in those rates astonished me. For those who still wonder what the OWS folks are protesting about, here's an ( Read more... )

With Steve Jobs' passing, a lot of my friends have posted links to his commencement speech at Stanford. I watched it last night, and am glad I did. He posits the familiar question, "What would you do differently if today were your last day?" in a new way ( Read more... )

Yesterday I reconnected with a friend from Columbia whom I hadn't seen since moving to Aiken. It turns out that he's just started working at the same company where I also recently started. For some reason, I was surprised that he remembered me and my husband. But why should I have been? I remember him and his wife ( Read more... )

I got a flyer in the mail yesterday from a pro-school-voucher group. The mailer was a full-color trifold on heavy, glossy paper with a CD insert. Now, I'm all for keeping designers employed, but all I could think when I saw this thing was, "What a waste of money ( Read more... )

This morning, I heard someone say, "Here in America, we're used to getting everything for free." My response was, "Really?"

Maybe it's a generational thing. As part of the generation of latchkey kids, hackers and makers, I'm used to the idea that nobody's going to give you anything, you have to do it or make it for yourself. For example, does ( Read more... )

This morning I had to go to the bank. 5-year-old D-Mac was with me, and he asked me what happened to the money he put in the bank. I explained that the bank let other people who needed it borrow it ( Read more... )

The latest Facebook updates have made it just about impossible for me to keep track of what my friends are up to. So instead of going there to see what's going on, I just jumped on over to LiveJournal for the first time in forever. At least here, I know what I'm going to get. Suddenly, I feel like catching up on the latest from elysesewell and babyslime again, and ( Read more... )

I finally posted another Day In the Life. Here it is. Please comment, and vote if you feel moved to do so.

It's been a very long time since I've read or posted anything here, but I didn't want today to pass without comment ( Read more... )

A couple of tornadoes touched down just a few miles from our house early Saturday morning. Fortunately, no one was hurt and we were blessed with beautiful weather for Easter Sunday.

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