We’ve been informed that we’re moving to a new office space — and this fact alone is making many, many people hyperventilate. Why? Oh, just the potential for the privacy crushing, morale diminishing, and the all-around “Big Brother”-ization of our workspace in the rumored, and dreaded, open workspace plan. Continue reading
Celebrities sometimes say the darnest – meaning the most awesome – things. Continue reading
John Mayer posted his rendition of Beyonce’s “XO” to SoundCloud on Friday. Pretty good if you ask me. Sounds like it could have been a John Mayer song. Continue reading
Late in March, I did a QOTD asking everyone’s favorite (and least favorite) song from 1998. Talk about a trip down memory lane. I just finished listening to one of my favorite podcasts discuss Weezer’s The Blue Album since it’s turning 20 this month. Which reminded me that someone in my previous QOTD suggested I do another post, but about 1989.
Or, the not so humble sandwich. I have here on my plate a sandwich of roast beef, cambozola cheese and arugula, on potato bread. A moment of reverence for this divine combination, please.
In the image you see the Vietnamese classic, a banh mi. Variations abound, but start with a good crusty French roll (Vietnam was colonised by the French for awhile, and has glorious bread). Then you’ll want mayonnaise, soy sauce, sliced meat, sliced cucumber, cilantro and jalapeno slices. Maybe some daikon, pickled vegetables, sliced onion. Leaves of whatever lettuce you have handy. You get the picture. Eat it with a Vietnamese beer – the county was also colonised by the Germans for a period. Continue reading
Have you ever realized that you had been singing the words to a popular song completely wrong for years? I went the longest time before my older sister corrected me for singing the wrong words to Bruce Springsteen’s Brilliant Disguise. I was singing, “Is that you, Baby or just a brick in disguise?” instead of “Is that you, Baby or just a brilliant disguise?” Continue reading
I have my little round of websites that I visit each morning, eyes half open, coffee mug in hand. I’m sure most people do. But every now and then you need some fresh ones. Continue reading
There you are, happily reading a book or watching a movie/tv show. You’re all caught up in the story, nicely distracted from the real world. But then, whammo, a hole in the plot jerks you out of the story and into a lengthy snarl of arguing with the writers in your head.
Do I need to insert a spoiler warning here? Continue reading
The American Scholar recently published a list of its editors’ picks for the “Ten Best Sentences.” Fitzgerald took the first slot, with this sentence from The Great Gatsby: “Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” Continue reading
So, I’m not really one for April Fool’s jokes because I’m not terribly clever, but I do enjoy seeing them played out. A lot of companies now use them to launch new products. My favorite are the Google April Fool’s jokes/hoaxes. Continue reading
