Working From Home?
February 25, 2009
On working from home with kids:
But its not all sunshine and roses. When I worked at an office I almost never had to stop what I was doing to wipe a coworkers [behind]. I didnt have to break up fights between coworkers about which is better, Wonder Pets or Little Einsteins, very often. Fellow employees didnt generally run through my cubicle, screaming. When I used to work in an office, no one ever threw a paper airplane at me, no one ever came to me with a Barbie shoe stuck up his nose, no one ever poured a cup of chocolate milk on my desk, and no one ever screamed for attention when the phone rang.
I don’t generally work from home, but my brief attempts make this assessment resonate!
via The Messy Side of Working From Home – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com.
Getting to know your master
February 17, 2009
Since “googling” is something a lot of us do more often than “eating” or “sleeping”, it seems that we could benefit from learning some of the tricks available in that little search box….check out Search Features.
Mike's music
February 9, 2009
I recently listened to our friend Mike Shapiro’s recordings he was doing before he died. At this point I couldn’t tell you who he was playing with, and frankly I wish I had given him more support and paid more attention to his musical ambitions when I had the chance. I believe that he and I were each other’s first bandmates, forming “Vile Stench” in his mother Sally’s garage in Del Mar circa 1984 or so. The band lasted for several minutes until some asshole called the police for a noise complaint. Anyway, I have an hour or so of Mike’s project which I think was the latest thing he was working on musically before he was taken from us. Listening to it makes me miss the hell out of him. I wish he could meet my daughter and I wish I had another chance to tell him how important he was to me, and that I wouldn’t let him down again.
jam one
jam two
Skateboarding in Afghanistan
January 26, 2009
“Afghan kids are the same as kids all over the world, Percovich said. They just havent been given the same opportunities.”
via NYTimes.
Steve McQueen – Lost Motorcycle Discovered
January 24, 2009
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Goodbye to the shake I love…
January 21, 2009
I love Oreo shakes, I’ve even made videos about eating them. Now, perhaps Baskin Robbins adds something extra to their shakes (as if ice cream, milk, and Oreos weren’t enough – a chocolate Oreo shake?), but if Oreo shakes in general are even half this unhealthly, I need to take a hard look at them in the rearview mirror… Aging is kind of a bitter pill, huh?
Baskin Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake
2,600 calories
135 g fat 59 g saturated fat, 2.5 g trans fats
263 g sugars
1,700 mg sodium
good start
January 12, 2009
Obama to Order Guantánamo Shut on His 1st Full Day – NYTimes.com.
We have met the enemy and he is us. -Walt Kelly
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
January 9, 2009
“Sold! To the Nice Rich Man” by the Welcome Wagon
Asthmatic Kitty Records
Amazon MP3 Store
iTunes Store
Beach girl
January 8, 2009
Paragraph of the day
January 7, 2009
“They say socialized medicine will be akin to health care delivered by the post office, and this has scared away even the uninsured from believing in it. But Im not so sure weve got to blame our postal workers, for as inept as they can be, the general populace can frequently be just plain stupid. I know, I waited for thirty five minutes at the satellite post office, where they sell no stamps and collect no letters, in order to pick up my vacation mail. The line was held up for ten minutes, twice, by people who just couldnt understand the basic principles of mail delivery. Like you must bring the note to pick up your held item, and that the counter person cannot deliver to you what the carrier in the field has in his truck.”
