Category: General

Today is the start of the, “Year of the Dog” in the Chinese Calendar!

The fortune cookie that I got at my sister-in-law’s 55th birthday party last Sunday evening, January 22, 2006 said, “You can prosper in the field of computers.”Imagine that!

Just as I was preparing the “Living” quotation that I planning to post today, the phone rang and the company, Augeo Affinity Marketing, that had called last week to set up an interview called to cancel.  It was sort of freaky.The funny thing is that they said that if the internal candidate didn’t “work out,”…

News this week about the Donner party to California, as reported by CNN, “Research: Donners didn’t resort to cannibalism” alleges that the Donners themselves did not resort to cannibalism during their fateful trip to the “Promised Land” of California, based on the fact that there were no burnt human bones found at the Alder Creek…

This excellent article in Time about “Multitasking”, and the sidebar The Case for Doing One Thing at a Time, 16 January 2006, had some really good quotes from Suze Orman, the diva of personal finance:Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone…

You know that you’re getting too old when your hearing starts to go…  Last Saturday (2006-01-14) we got back from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, caught the end of the local news on NBC and then Saturday Night Live came on.Now what I heard after the guest host (Scarlett Johansson) monologue was, “…with Musical Guest,…

There is a terrific essay in the 26 December 2005 issue of Time about how 2005 was the end of the free pass for President Bush and other public figures by Andrew Sullivan who’s blog is the Daily Dish.  My favorite quote:Katrina was the turning point, the moment when the extent of cronyism, incompetence and…