• Apple!  Rotten to its Core!

    Fact Check on Aisle 6, Please

    by  • May 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Okay, so I have to gripe about this before I forget. A week or two ago, I was doing some investment research on Apple (which defied my 2011 expectations and doubled its market cap with little more than a hop, skip and a jump.  Damn you, Apple, and good work!).  In the process, I...

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    Uncooperative Verbiage and Stereotypes

    by  • May 1, 2012 • 0 Comments

    I GOT A JOB

    Today, one of my old PRWeb friends posted this on Facebook, along with the charming and well-considered comment “liberals can’t seem to grasp this principle.” Now, I’m not really a liberal…  not really…  but if there is one thing I cannot abide, it is smugness.  In other words, I felt morally, ethically,...

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    Too Much Space is a Dangerous Thing

    by  • March 29, 2012 • 3 Comments

    underwood typewriter

    I didn’t realize that the question of correct sentence spacing was… actually a question. When it came up, I nodded and laughed politely.  I’ve been told that it is stylistically unforgivable to leave a button-up shirt untucked, that wearing black socks with tennis shoes is a mark of absolute barbarism, and that one should...

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    Jed’s Scotch-Fueled Painting Spree

    by  • March 18, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Moar Painting!  Moar Scotch!

    Friday was Jed‘s last day at Vocus. I remember how I felt on my last day (that would be about 20 months ago now — feels like longer than that) and I wanted to share a little of his hour of completion with him (as he shared some of mine with me), so we...

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    Cecil – The Remarkably Adaptable Feline

    by  • February 29, 2012 • 0 Comments

    …and no sooner had Moppet gone to earth than we (temporarily) acquired another cat. This one was is on loan. His name is Cecil — technically. We found ourselves calling him a range of names, including but not limited to Kiki, Cicero, Charles, Chaz, Saucelito, Churchill, Winston, and Bob, in addition to the timeless...

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