I’m a service operations center engineer, and I work odd hours – Sunday through Tuesday and every other Wednesday, 12-hour shifts. Normally, Sundays are very slow and frequently boring, but today the fire alarm went off and my co-worker and I went packing outside. We knew right away it was no drill, as we hadn’t [...]
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Meat is made out of meat, go figure…
Normally I love Gizmodo, but today they got a little sensationalist with this headline: A Tour of McDonald’s Horrifying Mechanized Meat Factories. Having read that, I expected to see some kind of undercover, covert video or pictures of some disgusting practice the popular fast-food chain conducts away from prying eyes, something likely to turn off [...]
Congratulations, Mr. Obama…
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Its the answer told by lines that stretched around schools [...]
Dignity in the face of loss…
Michael J. Fox is an actor of considerable talent, who in recent years has been struck down and out of his profession by Parkinson’s Disease, a disease that has taken much more from him than just his career, and which may eventually take his life (although PD is not in and of itself classified as “fatal”, [...]
Chris Farley, 1964-1997
10 years ago yesterday, we lost comedian Chris Farley at the young age of 33. Do yourself a favor and read this awesome retrospective in memory of the man. It’s pretty easy to forget that celebrities aren’t actually bigger-than-life, that they’re human beings just like the rest of us, and articles like this help us [...]
