The thing I’ve decided to complain about today is that I’m too nice a person, and so is everybody else. This is irritating chiefly because I have generated a few great put-downs that…
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Jules just posted about her reading and her “library.” I’ve been thinking along similar lines myself, though I can’t pretend to…
It started when I recently finished Blair Jackson’s biography of Jerry Garcia. A friend was moving and I think he wanted…
Last week one of my favorite bloggers put up a post that was, frankly, opinionated and harsh. Now, I’ve…
Marriage is a sacred institution. But who wants to live in an institution? Sen. Barney Frank
I’m hearing more and more these days about the sacred institution of marriage…
My boss was reading to me today from a document a law librarian had compiled. They have an “ask a law librarian” service, where you can email a law librarian “24/7” - live…
I had to get another little notebook. The one I had, where at least a dozen valuable ideas and phone numbers were mouldering, waiting for me to switch them to a more permanent home, are lost. …
People have been asking me, at an increasing rate, to append a warning to this site due to, as one correspondent put it, the “snorkling” by readers of the Chucklehut of a variety of beverages…
Cuilinary updates:
1) The powdered hazlenut flour substitute at Trader Joe’s is great for breading fried fish, but not so great for making pancakes. Which is disappointing because…
I got an email today from the building manager, to all employees, about “Evacuation Training.” In the interest of protecting us from undisclosed evils that are expected to be likely to take…
I complained some time back, and it’s strange but I can’t find the post so you’ll have to take my word for it, about a trailer for a chinese movie that I considered misleading because…
The story was as follows: The guy was a bit unbalanced. He hung out at the State Bar HQ a lot, trying to get someone to agree to represent him. It seemed to make no difference to him that…
* Some ignorant freak who’s spitting tobacco chaw into the urinals. Dude, this is California. We don’t chew, we meditate. Get with the goddamn program. A urinal…
Hey my good friends I am a bit pressed for time now - because of my new toy which I have yet even fully to operate but which holds for us…
You could say I have plenty of time to come up with something - as of now, just about 10 days. That’s more than plenty of time, much longer than I need for most decisions. But I suppose…
* There’s some damn muscle above my eyeball that’s twitching like that time we hooked little Timmy Thomson up to that wall socket. It was sort of moderately entertaining at first, something…
It’s an incremental process, but it looks like the “office” is completely painted now, and all that remains is the master bedroom, the long hallway, and the living room and dining…
I was chatting with P-tricia a few months ago and she mentioned something that stuck in my head - that there are things people start to say, that her brain finishes…
What kind of day it has been: when I came in to turn on my computer, I was so out of it that I not only got “control-alt-delete” WRONG, but the computer put up a helpful screen to teach…
In no particular order:
Instead of dumping another of my patented “sopor-tastic” essays, I’ll just hurl a bunch of tidbits into the ‘sphere here and hope something among them amuses you. I’m…
In keeping with a one-day pattern of tardy commemorations, I wrote this back on June 16:
California’s Secretary of Education is leading by misdirection, it seems. At a recent event in Santa Barbara to promote a book club he’s wielding this summer, a schoolgirl in the audience…
Dogs may be creatures of habit, but cats are habits in living form. They eat habitual food at habitual times in habitual ways; they habitually like certain things, habitually demonstrate certain…
Sorry, though I know you don’t care, but I’ve got so much work to do that idiom escapes me. (A coworker just came to me for comments on an evaluation document I apparently used extensively…
It seems to be a slap in the face of democracy. We try to get an election going that gives us a choice. We winnow contenders down from 12 to 2, and the annointed incumbent and upstart challenger…
In solidarity with Tara and Phil, who have a lot on their plate as of today, here is a shortie from Tara’s last visit:
I was feeling a little burned out, what can I say. Tara’d…
I’ve admitted it here before so it should be no surprise that I am prepared to reiterate: I play with myself. I only do it at home because they’ve prevented me from doing it at work,…
Today I have the pleasure of not taking the bus to work, not even going to the office at all - it’s the Annual Meeting, held this year in the state’s first capital, Monterey, to which I…
We both have today off, so I’m actually not late for work even though I have a long list of household obligations to fulfill today. Well from where I’m sitting there’s no better…