Look at the picture to the right. What does it look like to you? If you’re like I was just a few weeks ago, you’re probably thinking “It’s a mug that looks sort of like a flower pot with a handle.” But isn’t it funny how if you walked into someone’s house, asked for a [...]
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I went to the dentist today. I’ve been there a lot recently, seeing as I hadn’t gone for a while. It turns out I have more than a little work to get done. This time around I was taking care of a couple of evil cavities gnawing away at my molars. When I was brought [...]
One thing that amazes me about teachers is how much power they really have in shaping their students’ futures, and how sickeningly often they seem to blow it. Don’t get me wrong, I highly respect teachers, but I wish more of them would take courses on leadership, or at the very least people skills. Case [...]
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Tonight, we were at my in-laws’ house for their annual Christmas celebration. As long as I’ve known The Wife, they’ve always celebrated Christmas as a family on Christmas Eve, gift exchange and all. This year it seems like the mood was not as festive as in previous years. Maybe it was because The Wife’s brother, [...]
I just finished watching the first DVD of the first season of Battlestar Galactica. For months now, just about every sci-fi fan I know has been gushing to me about how incredible this new version of the show has turned out to be. Finally, I was able to borrow a copy from a friend, to [...]
Dealing with sales-people can often be an intimidating experience, especially if you haven’t dealt with one for a while. The following article chronicles my experiences with quite possibly the worst sales-person I have ever come across. In it I offer advice from the point of view of someone who has worked in sales in some [...]
The term “chick flick” is slang, sometimes slightly derisive, for a movie which is designed or considered to appeal mainly to women, and generally displaying more of a focus on romance or relationships. Many romantic comedies or films with a lots of female characters are likely to be put in this category. — (Google Query: [...]
Edit: The story has been cleaned up a bit. An error in the code ended up erasing a fair sized chunk of the article — one of the most important parts, actually. I’ve added the part back as best I could, so if you read the article and part of it didn’t make any sense, [...]
Here’s a mystery maybe someone can help me with: for some strange reason, the the shoe laces on my right-foot shoe almost always come untied. No matter how well I may tie my shoes, eventually, inexplicably, the laces on the right-foot’s shoe come completely undone. Aside from the safety hazards introduced by two pieces of [...]
As I was walking out of the grocery store today, I noticed the mural of managers this particular supermarket chain tends keeps above its doors, where displayed are the pictures and names for all that store’s managers. Out of habit I started reading them when when something threw me for a bit of a loop. [...]
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