I have the flu. I awoke Sunday feeling achy all over, then woozy as I dressed for church. After a nap, I rose feverish. Bella nursed me throughout the night and I've recuperated at home today. Still, my head is pounding, I have a low-grade fever and I'm sleepy all the time...definitely looking forward to getting a flu shot next year.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'm team lead this week. It's day two, and I'm already wanting to pull my hair out. What I need is someone who's good on the server to whom I can delegate work. On the client side, I'm covered, but the server is a total disaster. I'm delegating like you wouldn't believe, and I'm still utterly buried. Honestly, I can't wait for some of these marketing drones and grandstanding managers to GO THE FRICK HOME so I can do some of the work I should've had done last Friday. What am I supposed to do? Yell at myself to work harder?
Just finished David Owen's dense-yet-inspiring biography of Xerography and its inventor, Chester Carlson, entitled Copies in Seconds In his first few chapters, Owen tries to imbue his fascination for the ordinary (to those of Generation X and afterwards) office copier. Frankly, his treatment of the development of copying is boring. I don't care about scribes, Gutenburg, or Ditto machines. He spends inordinate prose on the distinction between "copying" and "duplication", and why the idea of 'copying' is so important. The thing is, "copying" is dying. It became necessary because of the industrial world, but in the post-industrial world, everything is digital and the concept of "files" and "originals" holds less and less meaning. Still, Carlson's invention underlies every copier and laser printer. He invented toner, and it's LXK's sale of toner that pays my salary, so I , at least, am suitably in awe. The...
On NASCAR NASCAR's brand of homogenized, low-tech racing is back for another season. Fields of 35-45 "athletes" will pilot tube-framed 'Murican V-8s in 40 races from today through late November. Aside from a handful of visits to road-courses, all these races will be on ovals, ranging from the bullring half-mile of Bristol to the world's fastest track, the 2.66 mile tri-oval at Talledega. Nascar is at once Good-Ole-Boy, downhome charm and a corporate juggernaut that's the secondmost lucrative sport behind football. Once confined to circuits in the Southeast, the series ranges from coast to cost, north to south. Whereas the man on the street 30 years ago might equate "car racing" with "Indy 500", he now thinks "NASCAR". The big question is WHY? Why is the sport so popular? And what do I think about it? In a word, it's accessible: Much like baseball, NASCAR provides hooks for everyone from the casual fan (even the antagoni...
