Archive for September, 2011

Presentation Syle

I was asked to create a presentation today. This is not unusual, in case you were wondering. My life is spent mired in Microsoft products. Only this presentation was different. I was to create a “basic summary”, and by this

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Divide By Zero Error

The following does not compute with me: 1) Every year we have to take the twins’ birth certificates in to the nursery in September to prove that we are the legal guardians and the twins are who we say they

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The Inheritance

Children are maps. You look at them and think: He’s got my eyes (hey, give those back!). She’s got my eyebrows. He has his father’s frowny line between his eyes. A map. It becomes more fun, too. They’ve inherited my

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Coups de Grâce

Alastair has gotten the media server to work with our TV, which involved complicated server arrangements, internet links, the moon being in Scorpio and a small degree of voodoo (you can tell I know nothing of this kind of thing).

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24 Hours in a Train Wreck

Whenever I used to screw up at something – and let’s be honest, I’m shockingly ditzy at times – a family member of mine used to purse their lips and say “When God was handing out brains, you thought he

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