From an article in today’s Raleigh’s News & Observer entitled “Fox’s bitter medicine man a hit”– Hugh Laurie was quite likely the last person anyone imagined would star in Fox’s hit medical series “House.” Creator David Shore loved Laurie’s British sketch show “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” but couldn’t imagine that anyone best knownContinue reading “On House”
Monthly Archives: February 2005
On Work Stress
The difference two hours can make. Every Monday the managers in my district have a conference call with our supervisor. This Monday was no different. Two o’clock conference call. It was an upbeat call focusing on areas to develop over the next week and important new releases this week–Gran Turismo 4, Tekken 5, MVP BaseballContinue reading “On Work Stress”
On the USS Constellation
For Christmas my partents gave me a LEGO set, the USS Constellation, a recreation of one of the United States Navy’s oldest and most famous wooden ships. For a variety of reasons I hadn’t the opportunity to assemble the set until today. After working on the set for most of the afternoon, I’m finished, allContinue reading “On the USS Constellation”
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On the Wisdom of Sally Brown
My report today asks the question, “Where will it all end?” We all need a philosophy. My old philosophy was, “Whatever, Who cares? and How should I know?” Can a philosophy carry us through troubled times? What happens when our philosophy fails? We turn to that most ancient of desparate cries, “Mom!” The words ofContinue reading “On the Wisdom of Sally Brown”
On Voting in the Psi Phi Awards
The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve. I don’t know who said it. I’ve no doubt a Google search would turn up a dozen claimants to the prize. In the end, it’s not the sentence that matters, it’s the meaning. The Golden Age of science fiction is what you read when you were twelve,Continue reading “On Voting in the Psi Phi Awards”
On Hockey
The National Hockey League has canned its season due to their protracted labor dispute. Pardon my bluntness but, who gives a flying fuck? The story lead off last night’s eleven o’clock newscasts. The story was plastered on page one of the Raleigh newspaper, an editorial in the news opinion pages, and then three pages inContinue reading “On Hockey”
On Touching the Past
Still sneezing and sniffling, I wrote a letter today. Not an e-mail. A letter. It’s to a friend of mine, one I’ve not spoken to or seen in several years. It says nothing profound, just summarizes the last few years in about two hundred words. Here’s where I am. Here’s the important things I’ve done.Continue reading “On Touching the Past”
On Sneezing
I wouldn’t feel quite so bad were I not sneezing all the time. If I’m not sneezing, I feel as though I’m about to sneeze. If I don’t feel as though I’m about to sneeze, I feel like I have something squishy stuck in my nose. And then I sneeze. And sneeze. And sneeze. AndContinue reading “On Sneezing”
On Sherlock Holmes's Schooling
The first paragraph of the Sherlock Holmes’s essay: “[D]uring the whole of his recorded conversations with Watson, Holmes never mentioned his school-days. As Watson talked freely to Holmes of his own life at school…, the proper inference is that Holmes had no schooldays reciprocally to discuss, which I think is the truth of the matter.”Continue reading “On Sherlock Holmes's Schooling”