There and Back Again The soul of the commuter. by Nick Paumgarten from the New Yorker (April 16, 2007 ) Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America’s longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred...
Ursula Bernis gives in this scientific study an objective view of the problems the Tibetan exile community faces today.Her historical analyses are convincing and this text is a contribution to understanding the complex issues in Tibetan culture. Bringing an ancient civilisation in the modern world...
'Justice League' Gets Pushed Around (moviehole.net) In the case of the latter, Australia's Herald-Sun Newspaper says that a 2010 start date, rather than mid-2008, is now being eyed. Apparently much of the cast have gone and booked themselves up this year, but more importantly, the studio has...
Yesterday morning, I bet wife Rita that the tabloid headlines this week will say, McCAIN SHOCKER!” John McCain, you see, is said to have had an affair with a lobbyist. Female that is. Too bad for the media, actually – an affair with a male lobbyist would have been oh, so much more “sexy.”...
Directed by Richard Linklater Written by Mike White Cast Jack Black Dewey Finn Substitute “Teacher” Mike White Ned Schneebly Best Friend/Real Teacher Joan Cusack Rosalie Mullins Uptight Headmistress Sarah Silverman Patty Di Marco Flatmate’s Girlfriend Miranda Cosgrove Summer Hathaway...
I haven't live-blogged anything before, but I love awards shows and the Grammies most of all so here goes. Oh noes! They started with the reanimated corpse of Frank Sinatra! Wait, wait, Alicia has lots of songs that aren't horrible, and a handful that are fantastic. Why is she being forced into the...
here's some stories i'm never EVER going to finish... mainly because i started them, then lost the will and inspiration to work on them again. then i got all caught up in what i DID write and put out (Reclaimation) that i didn't care about these anymore. if you like any of them, comment and let me...
Have you met me? Maybe you've noticed I'm a stickler for rules. I may be the only person I know (in Mexico) who never parks at a yellow line, takes however long it takes to park within the parking lines and has never even *thought* of bribing a police officer. Hell, it's never even ocurred to me...
do things with reasoning.....not just kind heart....find a valid reason, Alhamdulilah, before punishing your employee or employer, Alhamdulilah.... do things with a kind heart....if you cant satisfy your employee than you can if you cant satisfy your internal employee, Alhamdulilah, than you can...
Thursday, November 08, 2007 UPDATE on Evan Current mood: cheerful As many of you know I had to take Evan to the infectious doctor last week. They were ruling out a few things with him since he is prone to staph infections. Well the doctor decided to run some blood work. So yesterday I finally got...
can`t go online a lot these days. no internet. i have been using the neighbor`s computer like once a day or so =[ well anyways just gonna continue writing as last time. me & hunny sure went out A LOT this month. with new years & everything, for lion dance, with peeps in TN & on our own. so i got...
(This story took place several years ago, just a couple weeks before tom's adventure in sushi-land, as detailed last week. Names, etc, changed) Stumbling through an ancient temple with a model and some girl I work with. A friend from long ago walks by, smiling benignly. The model pouts, practiced...
This is the full, unedited text of the interview I did of Adrian Belew. The edited, published version is posted here: Adrian Belew interview February 19, 2008 GC: The first thing I'd like to comment on is you surviving the tornadoes in Tennessee last week. Does that give you any thoughts about fate,...
In recent year classified advertising has become a major competative, battle ground for newspapers. Competition, for classified advertising constitutes one of the most serious financial threats to the newspapers…. To understand the pro Frequency and volume discounts, The one open rate of $32800,...
I A foreigner in Egypt is a magnet for all kinds of people, some con men, some beggars, some who are just curious. An Egyptian woman can get away with a short sleeve shirt, though most these days wear long sleeves and the head scarf (shawl). On the other hand, a western woman in short sleeves can...
Qs answered by Big Bang Q1: When did you guys ever put everything out there for each other? G-Dragon : We all have different personalities so we haven’t done that yet. Q2: If you were to make a different name other than ‘Big Bang’ what would it be? From the beginning our team name was...
2.15.08 To finish the vegetarian restaurant story in a much shorter way than I had planned, basically the restaurant was teeny, tiny in the most adorable, cozy way, which meant that it quickly filled up with people and the hostess (who was also the waitress, cook and, we assumed, owner) sat a random...
Sorry it's been a few months - I changed workplaces and then got fired. However, it seems SixApart has finally made this site Mac-friendly, so I can now post from my home computer. Here's the last few weeks from my LiveJournal: 01:16 pm: My Current Least-Favourite Ad Dear Annoying People in the...
Eviction Eviction can be a tricky business. It is not fun, and there is liability if not done properly. That is why my advice is to have an attorney execute the eviction for you. There are so many things to be done, and they must be done to the letter. If they are not done to the letter, you may be...
001) What time are you starting this?: 11:09 002) Name?: Heather Elizabeth Woods 003) Date of birth?: August 28, 1988 004) Sex?: Female 005) Height?: 5'2.5" 006) Eye color?: Green 007) Weight?: FAT 008) Location?: Albuquerque NM 009) Where were you born?: Phoenix AZ 010) Have you ever failed a...
