Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from diaries that I found while cleaning out the basement. The author is unknown but the notebooks are not old. I hazard that this person, whomever it is, has been pursuing this creature he describes for years Little is popularly known about how the “Peep”1 lives its life. Like …
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Fun Evening
Illegal Use of Quotes: 2 Minute Penalty
Snapped in a local restaurant.
Bureacratic Amusement
As a consequence of being laid off from work, I received my COBRA benefits package yesterday. It’s not a big deal to me because I was on Jenn’s insurance anyway, but I leafed through the packet to make sure there wasn’t anything I needed to do. Here is my opt-in Rate Schedule: Jenn thinks I …
Professional Ethics Statements
Cross-posted from Talking Traffic. Please leave comments over there. Image by unk’s dump truck on flickr Ethics Statements There was a question posted on one of the Traffic Engineering listservs I’m a part of that sent me out to read (again) the various Canons of Ethics in the professional societies I’m associated with. I have …
Second Weirdest Thing, But First Coolest!
Righteously Awesome. Totally worth your time.
Weirdest Thing all Day
Huzzah!
Taken by my crappy cameraphone near the house.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
In keeping with my goals from the Hugo reading project I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke yesterday. My review of the book is: A delight and I’ll never read it again. I won’t re-read it because it’s a freaking thousand page tome! It’s huge, and would probably have been better read …
Tradition!
It’s a tradition when you’ve done it twice, right? In this case, my new tradition is to count, stack, and wrap the coins that have accumulated in my presence. The last time I did this was when we had just moved to Lubbock and I was in the middle of six months of unemployment. Now …