Remember back on the playground, when you lost a favorite knickknack and later saw another kid playing with it? “Finders keepers, losers weepers!” the finder chanted, and that was the end of it, for how could you challenge such a time-honored saying? It is not surprising that children would resort to this defense, but how… Read More: Lost and Found »
Seen in an article in today’s Herald about the fact that tail-gaters weren’t allowed to carry in their own liquor for the Harvard-Yale game (although people 21 and over were allowed to buy up to five beers): “Is this not the lamest tailgate?” Ellie Brophy, a 21-year-old Yale junior, complained to her friend. “You actually… Read More: It’s hard to be a Harvard or Yale student »
Seen in the Boston Herald Tuesday, November 14, 2006: Maine pair dies from CO2 poisoning SMITHFIELD, Maine — Two men working in a house died of carbon monoxide poisoning… Maybe it’s time to alert the Herald to the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.
I recently read Tom Clancy’s two most recent novels in his “Jack Ryan” universe, Red Rabbit and The Teeth of the Tiger. They are, quite simply, horrible. Not horrible in the sense of, “if you don’t like Tom Clancy books you won’t like these either,” but rather, “incredibly bad even to people who liked previous Tom… Read More: Tom Clancy needs to find a new line of work »
My family is in the middle of a two-week visit to Israel. Today is my “day off” to spend by myself, and of course, where else would I spend it than at an Internet cafe checking my email :-)? I’m not one of those avid bloggers who must record every detail of his vacation, but I… Read More: The quintessential Israel experience »
I’m trying to hire a senior software engineer for one of the teams I manage. Apparently, my standards are a bit high…
Seen recently on the lid of a jar of Cains tartar sauce, produced in literate Ayer, Mass.: REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING TO INSURE FRESHNESS Enough said.
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“Did you see my letter in the paper?” I asked my sister and her husband as we sat down in the restaurant. “Yes,” they said, laughing. “Our friends did, too. They all got a big kick out of it. Sure, they’ve all encountered the problem you wrote about, but why waste your time complaining to… Read More: Something better to do »