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Posted in Michael's Musings on May 7th, 2008
For whatever reason, I like to whistle when I walk around the building at work. It is not always a given song, sometimes it is just notes strung together. My melody started out that way this afternoon, when I noted that it suddenly took a familiar tone. I did not recognise it at first, but [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on May 6th, 2008
I have decided that in order to truly convey my feelings on the cafeteria that I needed to pen an incredibly unremarkable haiku.
cafeteria
strange hours leave me frustrated
and I go hungry
The cafeteria here is frustrating for someone who eats when I do. First off, I do not like to eat breakfast right away. If hunger [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on Apr 27th, 2008
It is nice that the TV industry, or FCC, or whomever is mandating the switch to digital signal for Feb. 17, 2009 is running TV commercials. I have probably seen 30 now. And each time they try to address the densest possible individual that would be seeing said commercial. They talk slowly, and really work [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on Apr 26th, 2008
I love playing trivia games. I think it was embedded in my head at an early age from years upon years of watching Jeopardy! every day. Now that a lot of bars have trivia I can let the inner geek in me stretch his chicken legs periodically. And nothing is more amusing than telling the [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on Apr 7th, 2008
Americans, well, we are a sturdy lot. We are getting progressively more obese, or less euphemistically, fatter. Personally, I think that our waistlines are going to emulate those of our cars. The arrogant bunch that we are, we for a long time went after bigger and bigger cars. Well, the second gas went up in [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on Apr 3rd, 2008
Some of the folks that sit near me at work are ardent movie buffs. They always futilely try to involve me in their conversations. And, inevitably, the discussion ends with “You haven’t seen xxxxx? Your Man Card should be revoked.” This is peculiar to me. I feel as though I do a reasonable job of [...]
Posted in Michael's Musings on Apr 2nd, 2008
Blogging should be a “release”, but sometimes I find it to be a bit stressful. I always said that I would try to stay away from detailing my daily travails (like today when I went with the granola instead of the Honey Nut Cheerios bar for breakfast) and stick to more grandiose topics and observations. [...]
