Suckers- April 10, 2008 More than once I've heard companies described as "the best first and third job you'll ever have". The idea was that if you stuck around nothing would happen, but if you left and came back you could jump a couple of grades ahead.Today just happens to have been the last day for someone who had been with the company for several years. The joke is that they'll be back in a couple years in a much better job. At least two people in my org chart have done that that I know of.And now today Glenn...http://nowatermelons.blogspot.com/2008_04_06_archive.html#5613150390031325028 Unpresidented authority- April 7, 2008 Glenn Reynolds notes how some people think the next President ought to seize greater authority to fight global warming, to avoid having to work at Congress's pace.Well, there's another way to avoid Congressional nonsense, and that's to avoid using the govt in the first place. All they can bring to the party is coercion.Oh yeah, they can write big checks too. But how did they get that money, anyway Yep, coercion. No matter what willfully obtuse technical jargon Harry Reid might hide...http://nowatermelons.blogspot.com/2008_04_06_archive.html#6549789380232854351 Lost arts- April 5, 2008 I'm not that old, doggone it. But even over my time things have changed so much with the way things are done mathematically and otherwise, I have to wonder what most people would do without calculators and canned software.Then again I went to engineering school, so what I thought of as normal turned out to be unrealistic for most people. Sheesh, a couple of days ago I told someone what the sine of a certain angle was off the top of my head and you would have thought I'd performed a...http://nowatermelons.blogspot.com/2008_03_30_archive.html#5612785938086183311 Snark today, science tomorrow- April 3, 2008 I was being sarcastic on an earlier post referring to removing tonsils rectally. But it could be closer than we think. Appendix Removed Through Vagina: U.S. FirstAppendix removed through mouthGall Bladder removed through vaginaKidney Removed through NavelAnd on a more depressing note, remember that little girl who got stuck on a pool drain and had her insides yanked out rectally She died recentlyhttp://nowatermelons.blogspot.com/2008_03_30_archive.html#8918963543114558517 Liary- April 3, 2008 Remember Josh Steiner He's the young Clinton aide who was said to have "lied to his diary". He allegedly regretted that his diary was not "more accurate".Now along comes another diary that Hillary Clinton won't like. It seems that one Jerry Zeifman recalls HRC's work on the Watergate investigation and wrote of problems with her. (You have to follow that link - it's not too long).For instance, she didn't get a recommendation afterwards. Why "Because she was a liar," Zeifman said in an...http://nowatermelons.blogspot.com/2008_03_30_archive.html#7448301082702172968 |