I’ve got this great big window in my office, looking out on Tampa Bay from the third floor. This is not idle bragging, it’s critical information, the absence of which renders this entry less meaningful than usual. People new to my office tend to stare a wee bit. More often than not their eyes take in a framed sign I have posted on the sill (which looks exactly like a horizontal metal…
Ancient Sumerians are thought to have believed in a place called Irkalla. The ancient Greeks knew of a place called Tartarus. The Hebrew bible refers to Sheol and Gehenna. Islamic traditions (and possibly the Koran – I haven’t taken the time to research it much) refer to Jahannam. Christianity – and much of modern western civilization – call this place Hell. We all have a…
Sometimes the hit flows up-shill.
Case in point:
Beth has a class project for her “gifted” class. She comes up with an idea and makes a blueprint. When she gets to a point that’s outside her expertise… namely: designing her presentation props in Microsoft Office – she enlists the help of Cheryl.
At this point, the assignment becomes Cheryl’s project. She takes…
There is one reader that may feel me on this one. Before I get ahead of myself, let me lay it out for you.
I’m in my office (no not now… I’m laying out the scene from earlier today), which isn’t normally such a bad thing… but I’d been away from it under the direst of circumstances: the dreaded sinus infection (with just a pinch of bronchitis for flavor). Due to…
For better or worse, right or wrong, there are two institutions I associated with Florida as a growing lad: Publix and Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q. When I moved with my family to Florida in 1979, there were was one developed corner of what is now a major intersection – and on that lonely corner of incadecent and neon lights sat our neighborhood Sonny’s. With my mother’s…
I’ve been toying with Firefox lately, but for all the wrong reasons. If you know enough about computers and the internet to be looking at this page, you probably know what Firefox is; but just in case you somehow slipped through the net… Firefox is another kind of web browser. That’s right kids, all you folks looking at the web through the Micro$oft window-shade (better known as…
I don’t much feel like writing, but I’m going to anyway… idle fingers and all that…
Let’s run down the list:
1. Skipped shaving… check!
2. Skipped church… check!
3. Skipped brushing teeth… (tentative) check (yuck)
4. Fever… negative (for now)
5. Sense of malaise… check!
6. Official flu diagnosis… negative (for now)
7. Leave the…
I thought I would check the site out from work during a break in the action, to see what it looks like through Windows. For those of you not in the know, web pages can look different with different browsers – even on the same computer, under the same operating system. So it wasn’t a big surprise when this page looked different on my Windows PC at work, via Internet Explorer. It was a…