Monthly Archives: October 2008

Almost worse than misplaced apostrophe’s

There’s a mis­placed apos­tro­phe on a new sign that I walk by at least a dozen times a day.  Every time I see it, I die a lit­tle bit inside.  It reminds me of the van­dal­ism war over the mis­placed apos­tro­phe (“VIOLATOR’S WILL BE TOWED”) on a sign out­side of my for­mer work­place.  Within a

I was dreading this really

I come home from an exceed­ingly strange day at work, and what do I see when I fire up my browser?
THIS. DAVID TENNANT IS LEAVING DOCTOR WHO*
Good for him.  I’ll miss him ter­ri­bly on the show, but …this is fan­girl blas­phemy, I sup­pose, but I can’t wait to see him in other things.  I

Journalist/bureaucrat cage match

My friend Irisira, a lovely and tal­ented state bureau­crat, wrote a fas­ci­nat­ing entry ear­lier tonight where she took apart the mis­lead­ing state­ments and fac­tual errors in a Buf­falo News arti­cle about the state hir­ing freeze.
I’ve spent enough time in state agen­cies to know some of the issues, but not in this much detail.  Though maybe

Your newspaper is a piece of garbage.

As a rule, I don’t blog about work.  There are a lot of rea­sons for this, which are mostly self-explanatory.  I blog about things that hap­pen at work but aren’t related to my job, or things related to my field as a whole.  Never specifics.
How­ever.  When some­thing from work isn’t directly related to what I

My new favorite TV show

Kelly turned me back on to the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam.
The best part, though, has to be the chat win­dow.
00:49 mis­ter­glassww : This is bet­ter than the Yule Log on TV.
00:49 qthrul : agreed
00:51 qthrul : this is much bet­ter than what is on MSNBC right now.… they should con­sider pip­ing this into their satel­lite

25 Most Expensive Colleges

Col­lege: 25 Most Expen­sive Col­leges For 2008–2009
I’m shocked that Hamil­ton is finally off this list.  They must have made a con­scious effort to not make it this year.
Seri­ously, when I tell peo­ple where I went to col­lege, most peo­ple I talk to have only heard of it because of this list.

What has been seen cannot be unseen

This gives me night­mares. If taste buds could have night­mares.  Maybe they do.
I’ve never liked bacon.  Not even when I was lit­tle.  I don’t know why.

October 26, 2008 — Pharmacy museum

Mini museum, O’Brien build­ing, Albany Col­lege of Pharmacy.

October 23, 2008

Some­thing hap­pened to our recy­cling bin. It got thrown off the truck a lit­tle too hard, maybe. I’ve con­sid­ered duct tap­ing it, or maybe try­ing to put it back together with a sta­ple gun. I never get around to it, though. It’s large enough that I only take it out (and

The more you meow

Do I like learn­ing about why happy cats knead, or do I just like the above graphic?
I think you know the answer to that question.