Those rubber band balls you can buy at office supply stores? You know. The ones that are the size of a baseball. Round. Made entirely of rubber bands. And which would probably hurt like a motherfucker if you threw it at someone. Yeah, those rubber band balls. How are they made? Is it a machine?Continue reading “On Things I Wonder About”
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On Writing Macros At Work
For a variety of reasons, I needed to talk to a colleague of mine at work today. He’d needed a document from me yesterday, and I wanted to check and see if that was something that he was going to need on a monthly basis going forward. Never hurts to check, right? Well, in theContinue reading “On Writing Macros At Work”
On Writing to Music
I can’t speak for other writers, but speaking for this writer, I like to write while listening to music. There’s something about having music flowing around me that makes the words flow. Some writers, I’ve heard, like to write to soundtracks or classical music. I like to write to jazz. I don’t have a largeContinue reading “On Writing to Music”
On More Bloggery Thinking
Two weeks ago I put together a WordPress theme for a possible work blog. It’s nothing great — it’s a free CSS template, married to some php code I pulled together, plus some CSS jiggery-pokery &mdsh; and as a tech demo it does pretty much what I wanted it to: it showed that a visionContinue reading “On More Bloggery Thinking”
On Writing and Bloggery
Sometimes I have bonkers story ideas. And sometimes those bonkers ideas need to… germinate. In July I had one of those ideas. It was a neat hook, but where does one go with it? I batted it around, I tried a couple of different angles, and earlier this week I figured out how to crackContinue reading “On Writing and Bloggery”
On Showing My Cubs Spirit
I used to wear a necktie to work every day. I liked wearing neckties, actually. I taught myself to tie the knot, and somehow, without ever figuring out how, I discovered the Windsor knot, which is probably the most perfect necktie knot there is — it’s symmetrical and it’s balanced and it’s meaty and big.Continue reading “On Showing My Cubs Spirit”
On the Sixth Floor’s Weather
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. If this were a real test, broadcasters in your area would have followed this announcement with beer. Instead… My sixth floor cubicle has one major flaw. It’s frigid. The air conditioning vent is right above my head. I look up, and that’s all I see. TheContinue reading “On the Sixth Floor’s Weather”
On Copy Machine Follies
On the sixth floor there is a copy machine. The sixth floor is built around a central elevator quad. If you step off the elevator, my cubicle is on the eastern side of the building. The copy machine is on the western side of the building. Think of the sixth floor as being like aContinue reading “On Copy Machine Follies”
On the View From the Sixth Floor
My cubicle is on the building’s sixth floor. The building is glass. Blue glass. Windows run from floor to ceiling. At a guess, I’m sixty-five, maybe seventy feet off the ground. Could be a little higher; the ground floor isn’t quite level with the ground. Birds fly by. Clouds look amazing from up here. IContinue reading “On the View From the Sixth Floor”
On the End of the Week
It seemed, as the week wore on, that I would never get through the things I needed to do at work this week. I had writing. I have proofing. I had more writing. I had more proofing. I had to do research for writing. I had to get clearances on various things. It never seemedContinue reading “On the End of the Week”