The Happy Moron

I got my first email from an MLA the other day.
I didn’t recognize it in the inbox, but when I clicked on it I saw that it was a form response to a petition that I had supported.
I say ’supported’ because, well… I never actually signed anything. The whole thing went like this:

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The only thing more painful than a jerk is an incompetent jerk.

Right now the Olympics are going on, and if I have to say one thing about the Olympics, it is that they are old. We’ve been mucking with sport for a long time. What I don’t get is, “Why?”
I think there’s probably a couple posts worth on this topic, but I’ll start out with an [...]

This is an angry post.
Recently Facebook “updated” its interface. I noticed no great improvement, but the bugs really riled me. Try to write a comment… doesn’t work. Okay then.
When I logged in to my yahoo mail, there was a little box asking me, “What are you doing right now?”
Do you remember back when e-mail was [...]

…before someone did this:
Please rob me searches twitter for tweets that indicate someone is not at home.
It’s made the news; a lot of the news. You’ve probably already read about it before you read this post. My first thought is, “Darn, I should have done this.” Hopefully it raises public awareness.
This is only one piece [...]

I feel bad that there aren’t very many new posts, so…
Here everyone is!
I’m almost finished my Time Management analysis, so I think I’ll do a final wrap up (while leaving things open to possible future musings).
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, so that means I should finish off the 396 Word Bible [...]

A dump from my cubicle’s white-plank.
Portentious
comes from – ‘portend’.
‘por’ – a variation on the prefix ‘pro’, meaning ‘go forward’. Think ‘protrude, protract’ vs ‘extrude, retract,extract’
‘tend’ – from ‘tendere’, meaning to stretch or reach. Think ‘extend‘.
Therefore – Portentious – forward stretching, or foretelling. Reaching beyond the present.
Completely unrelated to:
‘important’
Once you dig that the ‘por’ in portentious [...]

Wherefore art thou, Time?
A little classic literature today. Aren’t we all looking out the balcony longing for a little more time? But Romeo and Juliet is just so… sappy idealized. I like the practicality of Mr. Micawber.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds [...]

And visible here.
Confession time – it’s really bad. The afternoon suffered greatly from my Saturday syndrome. When I’m mucking about I’m not as task oriented and I don’t keep as detailed track in my notebook. Then when I look over my time log it’s sketchy. The blocks of time are, I think, pretty accurate, but [...]

All week I was somewhat worried about my Saturday. Would I have the strength of character to do what I usually do – to waste the copious amounts of time I usually waste?
As it turns out, I needn’t have worried.
My day was pretty much the usual Saturday, with some intervention of work. I was also [...]