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What to do with way too much money |
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Lennart Green does close-up card magic |
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 Watching people doing their daily routine can be quite entertaining. I like watching and listening to people, On this day I was observing a young lady chatting on the phone as she has done many times before. This gal is quite entertaining because of the manner in which she uses a phone.
Most will hold a phone with the ear piece at, or near the ear and the mouthpiece at, or near the mouth. This lady will do the same when she is listening to a person on the other end talk, but will take the phone away from her and put the mike against her mouth and speak very loudly into the phone. "Huh", I thought. "The person on the other end of the line must be hard of hearing, or have a poor cell-phone reception". But she has done this on every call I've seen her make. (By the way, she and I are usually in our company cafeteria about the same time, every day. I didn't want you to think I was stalking this person.)
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Four uniformed men sat in the relative quiet of a room. They were surrounded by the flashing lights of the computers, and the controls that commanded the military might of a country. The sounds of mayhem and confusion in the war room outside could just barely be heard through the heavy door. The voices were muffled by the thick wood and armor plating. Occasionally a few words could be made out - a sharp and angry bark of a command. Outside were the tiny firecrackers - the sergeants and corporals yelling at each other because there was no one else to yell at. Inside there was the sizzling fuse of a case of dynamite. And it went off. "How could this happen!" screamed General Harkins. "It's impossible. It wasn't supposed to turn out this way!" "General, I . . ." |
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Maria Bamford on Star Trek |
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Presidential Dogs -- Scott Dunn: Bob and Tom Show |
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Oh, it didn’t start out that way -- no job ever does. Ones first day on the job is usually filled with awe and a sense that “I’m going to be the best employee this company every had!” That’s how it started. For me, the job was a dream come true. Over the years I had acquired what I thought was a fair amount of knowledge in the computer field. I could build or fix just about anything. This job would allow me to help others who were less fortunate in the area. And so the job began. I began working as a computer phone technician for a major computer manufacturer and distributor. There were 30 of us working full-time, 7 days a week and we covered 16 hours a day of service. We averaged over 1000 calls per day. I averaged between 50 and 100 calls per day. |
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A large auditorium is filled with some 300,000 archaeologist from all over the solar system. Vid-links to every part of the universal net have been established to witness the events about to unfold. Individuals, top in their respective fields, have gathered here today in the year 99,999. The beginning of a new millennium has brought them together at this place to hear about the find. The find will change the way ancient man has been viewed.
The speaker is Ke-ith dru-je, a renowned archaeologist in the history and study of 20th century man. His findings are part of schoolbook learning centers across the universal net. Having devoted only 125 years of his young life to the study and understanding of prehistoric man, Ke-ith has accomplished what has taken other centuries. I refer to Ke-ith as ‘he’, yet humans of this time have long since shed male and female classifications.
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I read an article in the newspaper this morning regarding persons who have fallen into swimming pools or other areas of water, and remained under water long enough to be life threatening or possibly fatal.
We cheer whenever we see the recovered party being worked on by medics, suddenly began coughing, spitting and sometimes crying, indicating they were one of the lucky ones to be brought back to the state of living. If that could only be true but alas, in reality only a very few can lay claim to being returned to the point of where they had died, so as to continue on with their lives as if nothing had ever happened.
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I was hiking in Papago Park with my father-in-law, John, when he lit up a cigarette and started smoking. Smoking while hiking seems, to me, anti-productive, but who am I to question the logic of a 55 year old man? He was in great shape and he didn't slow down my pace, so I just kept my mouth shut. I kept it shut, that is, until he threw his cigarette on the ground and stepped on the smoldering butt. I stopped in shock. We were hiking on a dirt trail in God's country--scenic desert complete with Saguaro and Cholla cacti; caramel-colored buttes and jagged mountains; small, crystal lakes with ducks and assorted fowl; and a deep blue sky sparsely littered with puffy white clouds--and he has the nerve to carelessly toss his cigarette aside? |
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Bob felt great. He had the road all to himself. For hours his only company had been the thousands of tiny insects dancing in the beams of the headlights.
Cool mountain air rushed into the cab through the open window. It carried a hint of rain, but the sky was cloudless, marked only by the countless sparkling stars and the thin glow of a crescent moon.
The feeling of freedom and power as he pressed down on the accelerator was overwhelming - almost intoxicating. Only one thing bothered him at the moment. He didn't know where he was.
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IM at the workplace seems silly, doesn’t it?
 Many people use Instant Messaging of some form at work. It helps break up the boredom of an otherwise laborious day at the office place. Instant Messaging, IM, ICQ, pinging or whatever you want to call it has become a part of our daily lives.
I work at a company that has open seating cubicles. The only separation between me and my coworkers is a small cubicle wall that extends a mere foot above the desk. We all can easily look around at each other during the day and easily converse if need be. Yet all of us use IM to chat with the person sitting next to us. There’s nothing like seeing one coworker send a message to another and then look to see what that persons physical response will be. I watch individuals send a message and then quickly look to the recipient to catch their reaction. Seems kind of silly, doesn’t it?
Well, I suppose it was even funnier in the days before IM where we used to call each other on the phone rather than chatting over the cubicle wall. Lunch would roll around and the guy in the next cube would call to see if I was ready to go to lunch.
Long gone are the days when coworkers would actually gather around the water cooler and exchange some witty banter. Now its fingers flying fast and furiously, attempting to get that zinger sent off before your coworker has a chance to respond. |
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