Enough already

And the list of irritants continues to grow.
It is just one of those days.
Don’t you just hate it when you’ve got a bunch of people working on a project, taking things along smoothly, and some overeager do-gooder comes along and floods you with suggestions? Actually, suggestions aren’t the part that grate. It is when the [...]

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Pre-Christmas Miracle

Third floor,
Exit lift,
First door,
God’s gift.
Skin, slick,
Build, perfect,
Mien, angelic.
Joyously intersect.
Seated behind
Desk, crescent,
Temporally confined,
Until ascent.
Delicate flit
Through hall,
Hearts lit,
Minds stall.
Each glimpse,
Cardiac boom,
Eyes, blimps,
Pulse, vroom!
Clueless about
Boyish crush,
Without doubt,
Puerile mush.
Still, wait,
Hope alive,
Chance date,
On Five.
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Spelling!!!

School and college kids seem to have forgotten the virtue of using vowels and completing words. I sincerely wish google/yahoo creates a tool that translates this new SMS inspired English in emails that clutter my inbox. We should be allowed to perform spell checks/auto-correct on incoming emails.
For example, today in the middle of a perfectly [...]

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Holey Shit

I have a teeny-tiny hole in my jeans. Well, not so teeny-tiny as to be invisible to the interested gimlet eye. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care but the hole occupies some prime real estate on the denimscape. Its presence was discovered in August and no heed was paid to it until today. In fact, I nonchalantly [...]

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CNN and the Financial Crisis

I am increasingly getting annoyed with the coverage of the financial crisis. Especially with the cable news networks. They are talking down to people. I sense this “oh-poor-you-sucks-to-be-you” attitude. People with fat paychecks trying very hard to empathize with people with no pay checks. It is just awkward. As I type this the coverage on [...]

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[1] L. Aldrin, 50 Reasons to have Sex, HIMYM, November 2008

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