Buckle up and get your reading glasses–this is a long one. Recently someone insinuated that, since I spent my life in academia, I didn’t know anything about working real jobs. (It was phrased in terms of never wearing steel-toed shoes.) So I thought I’d compile a list of all my work experiences in and outContinue reading “List My Work History”
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What Confusion?
Frequent readers of this blog know of my verbal jousting with the wrong number scammers: they introduce themselves, apologize for getting me by accident, and then pursue a closer friendship on WhatsApp. I enjoy messing with them through improv and sometimes they can’t handle it. Oh, no, looks like I got the wrong number forContinue reading “What Confusion?”
I Hereby Resolve…
A few years back I read an interesting article on New Year’s resolutions. The author suggested that, instead of resolving to do more in the coming year, one should do less. It’s like the scene in the movie Birdcage when they are turning the apartment into a straight-looking residence, and Val says, “Don’t add; subtract.”Continue reading “I Hereby Resolve…”
“You Are The Killer!”
This past weekend we had the premiere presentation of our interactive murder mystery, Whispers in a Dark Manor. I’d venture to say that it was overall a success. When talking with a local hotel to use their conference room for a performance, they expressed interested in doing a murder mystery dinner. We agreed, and IContinue reading ““You Are The Killer!””
Resuscitation of Old Projects
One of the recurring themes of my digital life has been bringing old projects back to life. One of the manifestations of this was “Gilbert the Goldfish,” which began as a short story and ended up as a web-based story with my scanned illustrations. You can see it here. (I guess the Flash animated versionContinue reading “Resuscitation of Old Projects”
Old Fashioned Speller
Maybe spelling, grammar, and accuracy just don’t matter anymore. Maybe no one cares if “Paris in the the Spring” has two “the’s.” Who really needs punctuation when texting? Of course I think we all do. Do you want me to understand what you’re trying to say? Then proofread. And nowhere is this lack of careContinue reading “Old Fashioned Speller”
More After Than During
For years I’ve taken quick notes on a variety of things. Some are story ideas, some pieces of dialogue, some jokes, and some brief reminders of longer things I’ve conceived. On that set of notes I found recently, we see: I’ve been using these notes as fodder for recent blog posts, and I see thatContinue reading “More After Than During”
A Fatwa on the Patois
I had a dream last night in which I was flipping through a number of documents. Each seemed to have at least one typo or misspelled word. One of these was “agressive” and I found this particularly annoying. While it didn’t occur in this dream, I’ve been seeing too many badly worded instructions from ChineseContinue reading “A Fatwa on the Patois”
Notes About Dreams
In a recent blog post I mentioned finding old notes about various things that might become future blog posts. Well, the future is now! Four of the notes begin: “Dream:” and have some mention of what happened in some dream I had years ago. Often when I take notes, such brief phrases are enough toContinue reading “Notes About Dreams”
Peristalsis in Excelsis Deo. Amen.
Going through a box from my storage unit, I found notes in a variety of notebooks. I tore out the relevant pages—so few in each book—and am donating the books to Goodwill so someone will get more use out of them than I ever did or will. See, I would purchase them thinking I’d getContinue reading “Peristalsis in Excelsis Deo. Amen.”
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