Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9 for 09, aaron sorkin, arianna huffington, dr horrible, fivethirtyeight, huffington post, joss whedon, nate silver, obama, politics, tina fey, tottenham, xerox on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Tina Fey
With her portrayals of Sarah Palin, Tina Fey almost single-handedly made SNL good again.
2. Joss Whedon
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so, because it is simply so off-the-wall laugh-out-loud funny. And the music rocks, too.
Honorable mentions to Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009, america, inauguration, obama on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Obama: Is it time yet? The fat lady’s done singing…
Crowd: Is it time yet? The guy 1235965th from the right in row 213958365 needs to pee, and he can’t hold it much longer.
Obama: I do solemnly swear that I am up to n… umm, faithfully defend and execute stuff. What you just said, Mr. Chief [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged employment, layoffs, xerox on January 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am still employed.
Not entirely sure why, at this point; let’s look at the reasons I had to be hopeful.
The 2008 numbers are up The person who crunched the numbers is gone.
My manager wasn’t called upon to axe people My manager is also gone.
But the axe is now done swinging, and it bit deep throughout our department. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged layoffs, xerox on January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The prospect of impending layoffs at Xerox has been weighing heavily on all of us here in the last couple of months; ever since it was announced that the company was seeking to cull roughly three thousand employees from its workforce, most of us have wrestled with the unanswerable question “will I be one of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged wordplay on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I admit it; I’m a lexiphane, and often rodomontade about it. Many people evince a certain dyspathy toward such logophilia… but at the risk of being panglossian, I am inclined to tripudiate at the notion of more widespread lexicographical pedagogy, and hope that the often philodoxical and kakistocratic educational establishment might someday accomplish more than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged car, holidays on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tail lights on our car stopped working over the Christmas holiday. We were out driving to try to keep L asleep in his car seat, and someone pulled up beside us to tell us our brake lights weren’t working. This being a potentially serious issue, we pulled over as soon as possible and got [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9 for 09, environment, hannah montana, obama, palin on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I suppose the title of this post is a little misleading, in that if I have bothered to list something here, then I apparently at least a partial fuck about it, enough to write about it. Some would argue, though, that a partial fuck is in its own way more pathetic than no fuck at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, citizenship, fingerprints, immigration on January 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m interrupting “9 for ‘09″ here to report that I have now had my fingerprints taken for the FBI to run a check on me.
That sounds ominous and “dude, what did he get caught doing?”-y. But now I’m going to take the bad-boy-glamorous shine off it.
This is actually a requirement during the process of becoming [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9 for 09, apple, bush, carbon leaf, coins, family, florida, guster, househunting, obama, politics, tottenham, xerox on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the start of a new temporary (maybe 9 days) feature wherein I make lists of stuff. So yeah. Reasons 2009 won’t suck.
1. New albums from Guster and Carbon Leaf
They’re not the only ones, of course, but two perennial favorites who will be releasing new material for the first time since 2006. Perhaps this [...]
