Whoa – Double Rainbow
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news
Posting from my iPad, cause I’m a showoff. Sooooo much news lately. Lex is ready (way more than ready) to give birth to our second son any moment now, it’s been in the 90′s, high 80′s for like two weeks now (seems like it – hard for Lexy Lou) and I have potentially big news [...]
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Top 10 Lost Finale Spoilers
This list seems appropriate for people who have not been following the series, but who may watch the finale. It’s cute how awkward the producers look here though, since so many throngs of Lost fans hang on every word they say, me included. I usually love Letterman, but his glibness had a negative affect this [...]
Your morning crazy
Chinglish “For English speakers with subpar Chinese skills, daily life in China offers a confounding array of choices,” Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports from Shanghai. “At banks, there are machines for ‘cash withdrawing’ and ‘cash recycling.’ The menus of local restaurants might present such delectables as ‘fried enema,’ ‘monolithic tree mushroom stem [...]
New and Old Music
Can I share what struck me on the radio lately? I heard this kind of new-wave-type song coming back from the airport last week and loved it. I was shocked to find it was Linda Ronstadt from 1980 singing a song by Billy Steinberg (the DJ said he co-wrote “Like A Virgin”, go figure). It’s [...]
Cheerleader
Reading Social Studies this morning, this blurb really struck me: Fight, fight, fight “After the stress of her job became too much for her to handle,” MSNBC.com reports, “one young woman in Tokyo decided to quit and channel her energy into brightening the days of workers feeling the same stress. Since August, 2009, this young [...]
Back to work
What does it say about our society that this amount of time spent at work is an undocumented requirement in many professional positions? Put in 50 hours? Go home – “The International Labour Organization says that 8 per cent of the working population devotes more than 12 hours a day to their profession in order [...]
More. Pythons.
I can’t imagine many of you read my twitter post a while back: That link again: http://nyti.ms/afCZMD No matter. Here’s more news on Florida being overrun with man eating pythons. Glad we choose this year to vacation in Tampa. Wow. Killing Pythons, and Regulating Them via NYTimes.com
