Monday, December 15, 2008
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own personal ephemera that we fail to notice massive, tragic events unfolding around us.
No. Let me personalize that, take ownership of it.
I have been so cocooned in my own personal nonsense that I haven’t noticed a terrible injustice that has been done to me, to the [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Q: Is it a bad sign when the grocery store’s response to a mysterious(?) odor in the frozen food section is just to spray a dizzy-making amount of air freshener everywhere?
A: Yes, it is a bad sign.
Q: Can we draw a life lesson from this?
A: Yes. If something “smells bad” in your “frozen food section,” [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
1. There is an awkward dynamic at play in computer-less temp jobs, when it comes to downtime. It worries the boss if you whip out a book, because then other office workers will think, “Oh, look, a temp with no work to do. Somebody is wasting the company’s money. And that’s why we can’t afford [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Per the helpful suggestion, I’ve attached the keyboard from my old, half-dead iMac DV — I knew there was a reason I was keeping it around.
Because the resulting configuration takes up so much vertical desk space, I’m considering a Rube Goldbergian setup where I will trigger the “h” on the (remotely located) iMac keyboard via [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Te letter between “g” and “i” in te alpabet as died on te keyboard of my iBook. I’ve been reduced to copying and pasting it from oter sources every time I want to use common words like “te” or “tis” or to write my last name (Pillips).
I’ve ad tis laptop for tree years now, and [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Last week somebody put up a little photocopied sign on my apartment building’s front door: BLOCK PARTY THIS SUNDAY.
At the bottom of the sign someone had scrawled a handwritten note: We get into trouble when we bbq.
I was away from the apartment all day on Sunday. When I returned at 11pm there were random, broken [...]
Banking with Chase was terrible. Every couple of months they’d screw up, and blame it on me. Eventually things would get straightened out, but not before several employees were given a chance to be rude and dismissive. The subtext was always, “Wow, we’re really scared that you’re going to be so dissatisfied that you’ll move [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This afternoon at the corner bodega I saw a slightly frazzled Muslim woman who was looking after five or six energetic young children. She was wearing a tightly wrapped headscarf, and sticking out of the side of the headscarf was the lower half of a pink Motorola Razr. Though the phone was open, she did [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Who’s got two thumbs and a clean bill of health from his one-year-post-cancer-treatment checkup?