Diving graciously I sat in a meeting today with nothing to say. Me, with nothing to say? It's absurd to think that I could ever shut up at a meeting, but I felt absolutely useless at this showdown. While sitting on one …

Made pretty I have sufficient reason to believe that most people live in this world with the belief that life ought to be risk-free. It's not to say that people aren't willing to take a chance, but certain individuals I…

Landing on good graces There's nothing wrong with a little self-promotion, particularly if it involves people who aren't very good at getting their names out there. Part of what makes my job sometimes enjoyable is the f…

The puzzle of penis I think there's always been this debate whether it takes more or less of a man to be able to show his penis in a picture. It's like the digital version of being pee-shy and I think that there's somet…

The proper incentive I can't stand being tokenized sometimes. For the sake of work, I often find that to be the case more frequently than I would like. You would imagine that an orgnization stressing its prized quality …

Breathing One of the reasons why I don't like to work in my office lately has been the lack fo Internet access. Last week, we actually twiddled our thumbs while awaiting for the service to be restored. Now, I'm trying t…

Appropriately gesture I was taking the train home as usual tonight from work and I saw this Chinese family stroll in. There was two children, one boy and one girl, a mother, a grandfather, and some unidentifiable female…

Chewy There continues to be a lack of Internet access at work. Today, we discovered that Verizon will not be able to restore our connection until next week. Of course, this ruins my plan for our contract reporting. I ba…

Crayon Internet access has been removed from my office due to a clerical error over at Verizon. Sheesh, this comes at the worst time too...I have a huge deadline for a report next week and I can't send or receive e-mail…