There are hundreds of layoffs occurring this month where I work, and the new company president is rumored to be very detail oriented in addition to being very determined to move our jobs to Asia.
Still, when I went for the stir-fry entry at the company cafeteria today, I was unprepared when the fortune cookie that said "A surprise announcement will free you."
That's being a bit more detail-oriented than I'd expect.
I spent much of February, 2004, travelling with my daughter in Thailand and Cambodia. Here are some notes:
George W. Bush has proposed increasing the federal deficit by starting a ten-digit federal program to improve marriage.
Given the past history of government programs, I'm predicting the percentage marriage stats will decline between now (2003 data) and when W leaves office.
(in line with W, I'm omitting gay marriage, "living in sin", second and subsequent marriages, polygamy, bestiality and anything other than one man, one woman, of the right age, getting married before their first child)
Irregular Times took a suggestion of mine and made a bumper sticker out of it.
"Bush '04: Lies, Damned Lies, and Lies of Mass Destruction"
There are a lot of other items there which will amuse or infuriate you, depending on your political leanings. I get no royalties on this sticker, so pick any anti-Bush sticker you like.
Wired News reports “Some politically minded bloggers find a new way to keep themselves busy this campaign season: They "adopt" a journalist and track his or her every keystroke.” (by Noah Shachtman).
Wow. That’s a lot of work. Somebody like Eric Zorn writes several columns a week, plus a blog. The Wired writer, Schachtman, isn’t suitable either. He’s done 227 other Wired stories.
I’d want to track somebody who didn’t write so much.
Somebody dead, so they can't suddenly go all productive on me.
I could find somebody being tracked by other people. So, I could comment about their commentary.
I wouldn’t want to do it on my own time. And, I wouldn’t want to do it where I had to hide the activity from my employer. Ideally, I’d like to get paid for this. That would be cool.
I’d like this job to be respected. I know the people I’m writing about just used regular names, but I’d like to be called .... Professor.
I guess this explains why academic jobs in the humanities are hard to get, even though the pay is low.
