What do I mean by over? I mean: Main Entry: over Part of Speech: adjective Definition: accomplished Synonyms: ancient history, at an end, by, bygone, closed, completed, concluded, done, done with, ended, finished, gone, past, settled, up High School. Its over. The last day of classes was yesterday. The last high school baseball game was [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Do you remember your senior prom? I do. More on that later. This was my son’s prom night. Yes that is a picture of my son and his beautiful date L. (I would have selected one where I remembered to turn on the flash but my wife has this thing about pictures on the Internet and there are [...]
The convergence of many things this weekend have me thinking about what we lose, not just what we gain by going virtual. (Yes I see the irony of this being written by a blogger but really, blogging is already old technology.) I tend to spend far more time in front of a computer than I [...]
No I do not mean from the 1960s. Most people read The Economist for the thoughtful analysis of business and politics around the globe. I read it for the centerfold. This short entry from the May16, 2009 issue of The Economist titled “Unveiled”: From photography to the internet, a characteristic sign that a new medium [...]
Despite the long, cold winter and the short rainy spring Chicago can be a phenomenal place to be be. Yesterday was just such a time. It had been raining for sooo many days that I had just ordered my do-it-yourself arc building kit. (You never can be too careful.) But Saturday the sun was shining and it [...]
It happened at work. The weird thing is that I would have never believed that in my totally bland workplace that people would have the sly creativity and cleverness to pull it off. At least a couple of people do. Good for them! Here’s what happened. I woke up with a bad cold over the [...]
With the Internet, you never know what will come your way. I have a GMail account. It has small ads at the top of the Inbox. Normally I do not even notice them. A small price to pay for a free service. But it is hard not to notice the words ginger, spam and salad [...]
This is a new disorder. A serious one. I first read about it…now where did I see that. Was it the New England Journal of Medicine? Or maybe Science? No, I remember now. It was part of the Michael Phillips’ review of the new X-Men movie. MP reviews movies for the Chicago Tribune. He wrote about [...]
I get crazywhen people drive and talk on the phone, clearly being more engaged in the call than the traffic. Or eating with two hands on the food and maybe a knee on the wheel. Or texting. Or reading. Or looking for something in the back seat. Or applying make-up. Or doing their nails. Driving plus almost [...]
I wrote the other day about the great conversation I had with my son. This broke up a string of screamers. The good will lasted four days. Saturday night was another 10 rounder. Usual suspects. Grades. What they were, what they could be. How a little more studying and a little less play could bridge [...]
