Idle Moments With A Fork

Last week, Gidman and I were sitting in the lunch room on a burned-out Friday, mindlessly chewing our ‘conveniently available work-site cafeteria so you don’t have to leave the site’ food, when I started looking at a plastic fork, manufactured by the Sunshine Corporation. So we started talking forks. Look at the design and variety [...]

Building A Bridge With Walls

This week, I have been participating in meetings between my employer, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, and an agency of the Federal Government. These meetings are routine, occurring from time to time. In the course of the meeting, our guest wished to print a single page from a PDF file on a CD-ROM in her possession. [...]

Anyone Need A Cat?

We’ve had two cats since we moved back from California in 1999. We adopted them as kittens from a shelter. More accurately, we set out to adopt one cat we saw on a leaflet at the grocery store, and ended up with his cage-mate as well. Soft-hearted suckers that we are… Emily and Ramses are [...]

Media Obsessed With Wet Terrorists

So Dick Cheney agreed with an interview question that ‘dunking in water’ is a reasonable form of interrogation, and the White House Press Corps went nuts. Tony Snow bears the expression of a man who can’t quite believe the spectacle before him. You’d think the Press was on the verge of uncovering American crematoriums packed [...]